CLARION, Pa. – The Clarion softball team wrapped up a six-game homestand on Sunday afternoon, falling in both ends of a doubleheader to Mansfield at Memorial Field.  The Mounties won the first game by a 15-4 score and the second by a final of 18-5.  It was the third straight home doubleheader for the Golden Eagles (0-31, 0-8 PSAC Central), who go on the road to face Bloomsburg and IUP next weekend.
 
The Mounties exploded offensively in both games, holding off a Golden Eagle team that had a solid day offensively themselves.  Moriah Lynn went 2-for-5 with a run scored over the course of two games, and Jessica Cartia went 2-for-3 with three RBI's, including a two-run pinch hit single in the late game.  Natalie Else also drove in a pair of runs in the late game, scoring Nicole Collins and Molly Cowden to close out the scoring.
 
Mansfield scored 12 runs – seven earned – off Kira Smith (0-7), taking an 11-0 lead after their first two innings.  Hannah Norton helped score Rebecca Kelley in the bottom of the second, hitting a hard shot to shortstop Deshae Jones and reaching after Jones' throw flew off the mark.  Kelley drove in a run herself in the third inning, lining a single up the middle of the infield to bring Makenzie Wolfe across to make it 12-2.
 
Clarion's scoring in the first game continued in the fifth inning, when Lynn scored on a delayed steal with Taylor Nonnenberg.  The latter came around to score later that inning when Cartia lifted a sacrifice fly to left field.
 
In the second game, Mansfield opened up a 10-0 lead through four innings, but Cartia put Clarion on the board with a two-run single to score Else and Norton.  The Mounties added eight runs in the top of the fifth inning to put the win out of reach for the Golden Eagles, but Nicole Collins drove in a run when she launched a double to deep left-center to score Wolfe.  Else followed that up with a two-run single that scored Collins and Cowden, setting the final score at 18-5.  Macy Rubin (0-13) suffered the loss with 10 runs allowed in 4.0 innings pitched.