FAIRFAX, Va. - Taylor Beebe (Olympia, Wash./Capital) and Beth Everist (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) each knocked in a run to lead Mount St. Mary's past George Mason 2-1 in non-conference softball action on Wednesday. After the Mount won its season opener, the Patriots earned the split with a 7-0 victory in the nightcap.

Everist knocked in the first run of the game in the opener on a double and Beebe drove home the eventual decisive score with a single in the second. The duo each finished the afternoon with two hits and an RBI.

Amanda Sadowl (Horsham, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) allowed one run on four hits with two strikeouts in a complete-game effort in the opener for the Mount (1-1) while Katy Bobbitt (Greencastle, Pa./Greencastle-Antrim) notched two hits and a run scored in the two games. Jenna Zimmerman (Walkersville, Md./Walkersville) scored a run in the opener and added two hits in the nightcap, and Chloe Mizianty (Carlsbad, Calif./Carlsbad) and Courtney Zingle (Ambler, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) had two hits apiece on the afternoon.

The Mount St. Mary's softball team opened up the Anna Nagro era with a 2-1 victory against George Mason. The squad won the season opener for the second-straight year. Nagro is in her first season in Emmitsburg after serving as the head coach of D'Youville College for the last three years. Nagro became the first coach in program history to win her Mount coaching debut.

The Mount took a 1-0 lead in the first inning. Bobbitt reached on a fielder's choice and came around to score the first run of the 2011 season on an Everist RBI double to left field.

Mount St. Mary's added to its margin in the second. Zimmerman reached on a fielder's choice and Mizianty single before Beebe singled to center to plate Zimmerman and give the Mountaineers a 2-0 advantage.

George Mason (3-3) struck back with a run in the sixth to trim the margin to 2-1. Megan Blank reached on a fielder's choice and touched home on a Rachael Davies' RBI single to left field. The Patriots got a runner on first in the seventh after a Mount error, but Sadowl got out of the jam with a foul out to first and a fly out to left to preserve the victory.

George Mason took the second game 7-0. The Patriots scored four times in the first inning thanks to a Katie Rynex RBI single and a Reagan Doiron three-run homer. Tori Dudley increased the lead to 5-0 on a run-scoring single in the second. Rynex sealed the George Mason victory with a two-run single in the fourth for a 7-0 advantage.

The Mountaineers had a couple of chances to score in the game, but could not push a run across. The squad posted three hits in the first inning. Beebe started the frame with a single, but was thrown out trying to steal second. Bobbitt and Zingle each singled to right field, but a pair of ground outs ended the threat. Mount St. Mary's got a runner to third with two outs in the fifth after a Patriot error, but a ground out ended the inning. In the seventh, Zimmerman doubled with one out, but a fly out and a ground out ended the nightcap.

Rynex finished the afternoon with two hits, three RBIs and a run scored while Doiron added three hits, three RBIs and a run scored and Dudley had three hits, two runs scored an RBI on the day.

Bobbitt and Cat Clifford (Hopewell Junction, N.Y./John Jay) started both games for Mount St. Mary's for their first collegiate action. Courtney Mason (Smithtown, N.Y./Smithtown East) and Lindsey Ruhle (Wanaque, N.J./Lakeland Regional) saw their collegiate first action as pinch runners in the second game.

Mount St. Mary's returns to action at the UMBC Tournament on Friday. The Mount opens the tournament against Liberty at 11:30 a.m. before facing UMBC at 1:30 p.m.