The Hamilton College softball team wrapped up a three-game NESCAC West Division series at Williams Sunday, dropping a doubleheader to the host Ephs by scores of 7-6 and 11-2.

The Continentals (7-16 overall, 0-6 NESCAC West) held a 6-0 lead in the opener before Williams rallied for the win. Game two was shortened to five innings.

The Continentals hit a pair of home runs in the first three innings of game one. Clean-up hitter Ursula Castiblanco '19 followed a first-inning walk to Hannah Staab '17 and an infield single by Kendall Searcy '20 with her first home run of the season to put Hamilton up 3-0. The Continentals added two runs on a wild pitch and errant throw to close out the five-run first.

Two innings later Caitlin Berreitter '20 hit her team-leading third homer of the spring to push the Hamilton lead to 6-0.

The Continentals were held to just one base runner over their final 12 plate appearances (a sixth-inning single by Daphne Assimakopoulos '17, who was erased on a double play) as reliever Mackenzie Murphy earned the win with four innings of one-hit shutout pitching.

Lexi Curt started and finished the Williams rally; she scored the hosts' first run (on a two-run homer by Rebecca Duncan in the third) and hit a sixth-inning solo home run in the bottom of the sixth for the go-ahead run.

In between, Curt doubled in two runs then scored on a Murphy single to cut the Ephs' deficit to 6-5. She finished three-for-four and scored three runs.

In the nightcap, Williams opened up a 9-0 lead before the Continentals scored twice in the top of the fourth. Assimakopoulos singled in Searcy and Phoebe Collins '18 hit a sacrifice fly to bring in Sophia Cerreta '20.

Searcy had two of Hamilton's four hits.

Murphy singled in two runs in the first and clubbed a two-run home run in the first and singled home two runs in Williams' seven-run third.

Riley Salvo and Kristina Alvarado added two hits apiece for the Ephs (14-9 overall, 5-0 NESCAC West).

Duncan earned the win, allowing just a hit and a walk over three innings.

The Continentals are back in action Tuesday, playing a 4:30 p.m. doubleheader at Utica College. The games were originally scheduled for April 4 before being moved because of weather issues.