COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Beth Everist (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) capped a three-run eighth-inning rally with an RBI single to lift Mount St. Mary's past Princeton 5-4 in the opening game of the 2010 Maryland Round Robin Softball Tournament on Friday. The Mountaineers lost 2-0 to Maryland in the nightcap.

Trailing 4-2 in the bottom of the eighth against Princeton, Courtney Zingle (Ambler, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) was placed on second using the international tiebreaking rule. Taylor Beebe (Olympia, Wash./Capital) walked and Lisa Curreri (Clinton, N.J./North Hunterdon) singled through the left side to load the bases. Liz Christiansen (Etters, Pa./Red Land) cut the margin to 4-3 when she scored Zingle on a single to left center before Nicole Reeder (Glen Burnie, Md./Archbishop Spading) forced Beebe home with the tying run on a bases-loaded walk. Everist then delivered the decisive run on a single to left to score Curreri and give the Mount (7-1) the come-from-behind victory.

Zingle went 2-for-4 with her first home run of the season and two runs scored while Everist added two hits and an RBI. Freshman hurler Nicole Pagano (Berlin, N.J./St. Joseph) improved to 4-0 after allowing four runs (three earned) on seven hits with six strikeouts in eight innings. The current Northeast Conference Pitcher and Rookie of the Week becomes the first Mount pitcher to start the season 4-0 since Zena Edwards in 1988.

With the win, head coach Larry Alvis earns his 91 victory at Mount St. Mary's to become the program's all-time winningest head coach, surpassing Denise Ditch (90-64).

In the 2-0 loss against the Terrapins, Amanda Sadowl (Horsham, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) allowed two runs on eight hits with four strikeouts in a complete-game effort. Kristin Collins (Abion N.J./Glouchester Catholic) recorded two hits in the loss.

Princeton and Mount St. Mary's battled back and forth until the end in the opener, but the Mountaineers scored the final three runs to take the first-ever meeting against Princeton.

Mount St. Mary's jumped out to a 1-0 lead when Zingle smacked her fifth career home run in the bottom of the third.

Princeton came back with two runs in the fourth thanks to a two-run triple by Megan Weidrick to give the Tigers a 2-1 edge.

Amanda Buckel (Finksburg, Md./North Carroll) started the game-tying rally in the fifth when she reached on a fielder's choice, moved to second on a throwing error and to third on a wild pitch before Chloe Mizanty (Carlsbad, Calif./Carlsbad) brought the senior home with a run-scoring single up the middle to knot the game at 2.

After the Mountaineers tied the game, the Tigers did not have a runner reach base in the sixth or the seventh. In the Mount St. Mary's seventh, Buckel started the inning with a single and moved to second on a Jenna Zimmerman (Walkersville, Md./Walkersville) sacrifice bunt, but a strikeout and a ground out ended the threat and forced extra innings.

The Tigers scored two runs in the eighth on RBI singles by Alex Peyton and Weidrick to grab a 4-2 lead. Mount St. Mary's rallied with three runs in the bottom of the inning to come away with the victory.

Maryland took the second game of the afternoon 2-0. The Terps scored a run in the second on a Marybeth Herrick double to right center and added an insurance run in the seventh on a Sara Acosta single to right field.

The Mount's best threat to score in the contest came in the seventh. Zingle reached base on an error, Curreri was hit by the pitch and Christiansen reached base on a walk with one out, but a strikeout and pop out to second ended the Mountaineers scoring chance.

In the seventh, Collins notched her second single of the afternoon to right field with one out and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Maryland got out of the jam with a strikeout and a fly out to left to end the game.

With her third inning homer against Princeton, Zingle moves into a tie for ninth place on the program's all-time career home run list with five homers. The junior tied teammates Curreri and Everist on the list.

Mount St. Mary's returns to action on Saturday in the second day of the 2010 Maryland Round Robin Tournament when the squad faces Towson at 10 a.m. and Princeton at 12:30 p.m.