HONOLULU, Hawaii –The Mount St. Mary's softball team lost a pair of games at the Pepsi Malihini Aloha Tournament on Friday. The Mount dropped a 3-1 decision against Radford and then lost 5-1 to Santa Clara.

Liz Christiansen (Etters, Pa./Red Land) paced the Mount (1-7) with a hit and an RBI. Amanda Burk (Bristow, Va./Stonewall Jackson), Beth Everist (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) and Lisa Curreri (Clinton, N.J./North Hunterdon) each had a hit on the afternoon.

In the contest against Radford, Leigh Godfrey paced the Highlanders (5-2) with two hits, two runs scored and an RBI. In the game against Santa Clara, Megan Smith paced the Broncos (2-11) with two runs scored, a hit and an RBI while Emily Batt had three hits, a run scored and an RBI.

In the first game of the day, Radford broke a 1-all standstill with a run in the fourth and a run in the sixth to come away with a 3-1 win in the first-ever meeting between the two teams in program history.

The Highlanders took the lead for good in the fourth. Michele Beall singled and then scored on an error. Godfrey tripled to center and touched home on an error on the play in the seventh to increase the advantage to two runs.

Radford jumped on the scoreboard in the first when Godfrey homered to lead off the game.

Mount St. Mary's answered in the third with a run to tie the game at 1. Kristin Fusco (Laurel, Md./St. Vincent Palotti) walked and then touched home on Christiansen's single up the middle with two outs, but the Highlanders scored the final two runs of the game to earn the victory.

The Mountaineers had a threat in the sixth, putting two runners on with one out. Christiansen walked and Courtney Zingle (Ambler, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) was hit by the pitch, but a fly out and a strikeout ended the threat.

In the nightcap, Santa Clara broke a scoreless standstill in the fifth with four runs and went on for a 5-1 win in the first-ever tilt against Mount St. Mary's.

Batt started the scoring for the Broncos with a solo home run to lead off the fifth. Brianna Knight doubled home a run before Smith singled up the middle to plate Knight. Jeanine Ruffoni capped the four-run rally with an RBI groundout to second.

The Mount cut into the deficit with a run in the sixth. Taylor Beebe (Olympia, Wash./Capital), the current Northeast Conference Rookie of the Week, walked and came around to score when Gina DeAnnuntis (Hammonton, N.J./St. Joseph) reached on an error.

Santa Clara added a run thanks to a Mountaineer error in the seventh to increase its advantage to 5-1.

Mount St. Mary's concludes its time in Hawaii against Mississippi State on Saturday at 5 p.m. and against Florida Gulf Coast at 7 p.m. in the Pepsi Malhini Aloha Tournament.