The Hamilton College softball team split a doubleheader with visiting Trinity College Saturday at the Loop Road Softball/Baseball Complex, bouncing back to win the nightcap 6-5 after dropping game one 15-0 in five innings.

The Continentals (10-20 overall) withstood a late Bantam rally in the second game, jumping out to a 6-3 lead then hanging on as Trinity scored twice in the seventh: five Bantams reached and the game ended with the bases loaded.

Hamilton scored twice in the first, second and fifth innings and Liz Brautigam '19 had a hand in all three rallies. She scored the second Continental run and drove in a run in both the second and the fifth.

After the hosts' two-run fifth pushed their lead to 6-3, Trinity loaded the bases in the next two innings. In the sixth, Hamilton pitcher Desmen DePaulis '19 retired the Bantam's third hitter to end the inning. An inning later, consecutive hits by Victoria Baez and Katherine Haghdan drove in two runs and put the tying run on first. Ursula Castiblanco '19 took over in the circle and, after a hit batter and walk loaded the bases, sealed the win by picking up the final out. The save was the third of her career.

Phoebe Collins '18 and Hannah Staab '17 turned in the game's biggest defensive play with Collins, playing second base, ranging far to her left for a diving stop of a sharp ground ball then flipping it from a prone position to Staab at first base for the seventh inning's first out.

Six of the first seven Continentals to bat reached base, with Staab scoring on a single by Daphne Assimakopoulos '17 and Emily Fraser '20 singling home Brautigam.

An inning later, Caroline Chivily '19 scored on Brautigam's infield grounder and Kendall Searcy '20 doubled in Assimakopoulos. Staab and Brautigam drove in runs in the top of the fifth to close out the Hamilton scoring.

Chivily had a team-leading three hits. Staab, Fraser and Assimakopoulos added two apiece.

Baez drove in three runs and Haghdan finished with three hits.

In game one, the Bantams scored five times in both the second and fourth, pounding out a dozen hits and taking advantage of six walks and a pair of hit batters.

Race and Haghdan drove in three runs each and Courtney Erickson scored four times. All nine Trinity starters had at least one hit and all but two drove in and scored a run.

Lindsay Golia allowed just five hits in the five-inning shutout.

Hamilton is scheduled to wrap up the non-conference portion of its season Wednesday with a 3:30 p.m. doubleheader at Skidmore. Monday's originally scheduled doubleheader against Morrisville State has been canceled.