New Rochelle, N.Y. – The Monroe College softball team finished the season with a .500 record (14-14), despite dropping a season-ending doubleheader to Chesapeake College on Sunday. They lost in game one, 7-6, and fell in the second game, 12-11. The Mustangs held commanding leads in both games before succumbing.
 
The Mustangs took a 1-0 lead in the opener on a single from Yeisy Cruz and an RBI double from Gabrielle Placencia. The lead went to 3-0 in the third. Cruz reached on a bunt single and scored on a Kylie Bitz RBI double. Two batters later, Selena Aguirre scored Bitz with a single.
 
The Skipjacks tied the game with a single run in the third and two more in the fourth. Monroe took the lead again with three runs in their half of the fifth. Brooke Boechler and Aguirre both reached on singles. From there, Brianna Casiano connected on her first homer of the season to put the Mustangs ahead, 6-3. Chesapeake responded with four runs in the bottom of the sixth and went on to win, 7-6.
 
Game two saw the Skipjacks take command early, building a 5-0 lead over two innings. Monroe erased that advantage with two runs in the fourth and four more an inning later.

In the fourth, Cruz reached on single, stole second, moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on a Placencia ground out.  The other run came when Bitz blasted her team-best fourth homer of the season. The four runs in the fifth came on a homer from Cruz that drove in Taylor White and a two-RBI single from Aguirre.
 
Chesapeake regained the lead with four runs in the bottom of the fifth, making the score 9-6. The Skipjacks added a run in the sixth, and went into the final inning with a 10-6 lead.

The Mustangs showed their mettle in their final at-bat by scoring five times to take an 11-10 lead. Singles from Bitz and Boechler and a walk from Aguirre loaded the bases with no outs. Veronica Casanova followed with a base hit that plated Bitz and Boechler, bringing the score to 10-8. Jasmine Guerra followed, tying the game with a double that brought in Aguirre and Casanova. Guerra scored Monroe's final run on an RBI single from Crystal Estrada.
 
Monroe needed just three outs to claim an 11-10 victory. In the final at-bat, an error, a walk, and a double led to Chesapeake tying the score. They won 12-11 when the winning run beat the throw home.