LA PLATA, Md. – The Anne Arundel Community College softball team saw its season come to a close Saturday with two losses to No. 2 College of Southern Maryland in the NJCAA Region 20 Division II Softball playoffs. The Hawks won the first game, 13-0 (5 inn.), and the second, 10-2 (6 inn.).

Game One

The Riverhawks were limited to two hits in the game – one from Rylee Gardner, and the other from Makayla Blake, who hit a double in the fifth inning. Blake advanced to third on an infield ground out, but the Riverhawks were unable to get her across.

Southern Maryland scored seven runs in the first inning, chasing out AACC starter Kendall Thomas. Blake went the rest of the way, allowing seven runs on 10 hits.

Game Two

Southern Maryland scored single runs in the first and second innings. AACC tied it up in the third with a two-run double from Jocy Degeyter. The Hawks responded with five runs in the bottom half of the inning on five hits while taking advantage of a pair of Riverhawks errors.

A three-run homer from Southern Maryland sealed the game in the sixth after the Hawks had retired AACC in order in the fourth, fifth, and sixth.

Thomas was in the circle for game two, allowing 10 runs on 12 hits in five innings of work.

AACC wraps up the year with a 9-26 record after making its fifth-straight appearance in the Region 20 DII tournament.