The Hamilton College softball team (1-4) posted a win and a loss Tuesday in Kissimmee, Fla. The Continentals started the day with an 8-3 loss to Franklin & Marshall before bouncing back to pick up their first win of the season -- a 4-2 victory over Dubuque.

The Continentals scored three late runs and held off a late Dubuque rally to pick up their first victory of 2016. The Duhawks scored once in the top of the seventh and brought the go-ahead run to the plate before Ursula Castiblanco '19 came in to retire the only hitter she faced to close out the win and earn her first collegiate save.

Castiblanco drove in one run and scored another. In the second she scored an unearned run on an infield error after drawing a leadoff walk and moving to second on a single up the middle by Phoebe Collins '18.

After Dubuque pushed across an unearned run in the fourth to tie the game, the Continentals took the lead for good an inning later, thanks to two more Duhawk misplays. Hannah Staab '17 reached on an infield error, stole second and moved to third on a wild pitch. Ashleah Yzaguirre '19 brought her home with a squeeze bunt to put Hamilton up 2-1. Olivia Gozdz '16 and Liz Brautigam '19 hit back-to-back singles and one out later, Castiblanco's single down the right-field line scored Gozdz.

Gozdz plated Mackenzie Doherty '18 with a two-out single to right field in the sixth to provide another insurance run.

In the final inning, Laura Melville -- who tied the score with a run-scoring groundout in the fourth -- led off with a walk then came around on an RBI single by Nicole Blum. A walk put runners on first and second before Castiblanco induced a line drive to first for the game's final out.

Gozdz finished with three of Hamilton's seven hits.

Molly Leitner '19 picked up her first win as a Continental, allowing just three hits over 6.2 innings.

Hamilton is idle Wednesday before facing two teams appearing in the latest national coaches' poll: Wheaton [Mass.] and Rowan University. The Continentals take on the No. 16 Lyons at 9 a.m. and face the Profs (second among the 'others receiving votes') at 11:15 a.m.