Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 | Box Score 3 WEST ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota State University Moorhead softball team dropped the final three games of the NSIC Dome Crossover on Wednesday, falling to Northern State (2-0), Bemidji State (9-4) and Minnesota-Duluth (4-2, eight innings).

The Dragons are now 1-4 on the year.

Against Northern State, freshman Kelly Watson was 2-for-3 with a double, while senior Amanda Moore was 1-for-2 with a double. freshman Kristen Nordby was 1-for-3. The Dragons' best scoring chance game in the fifth, when Watson and Nordby hit back-to-back singles with one out. However, a pair of strikeouts ended the inning.

Freshman Morgan Nybo pitched well in defeat for MSUM. She went the distance (six innings), allowing four hits and two earned runs. She struck out one and walked one. Northern broke the scoreless tie with two runs in the fifth.

Against Bemidji State, sophomore Moriah Bruns was 2-for-4 with a triple and an RBI, while Nordby was 1-for-3 with a homer, her first of her collegiate career. Moore and sophomore Brittany York were each 1-for-3 with an RBI.

MSUM trailed 2-0 after the top of the first, but cut the lead to 2-1 in the bottom of the inning when Moore hit an RBI double to score Bruns. The Dragons took the lead in the third when sophomore Rachel Sannicandro walked to lead off the inning, and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by sophomore Mollie Annen. Bruns ripped an RBI double to score Sannicandro, tying the game at 2-2. York then stepped up with a single to score Burns, giving MSUM a 3-2 lead.

The game stayed that way until Bemidji State broke through with a five-run fifth inning to take a 7-3 lead. The Beavers added two more runs in the sixth to make it 9-3. Nordby's homer brought MSUM within 9-4 but the Dragons got no closer.  Junior Brandi Howell took the loss for MSUM, going 4.2 innings and allowing seven earned runs. She struck out three and walked three.

Against UMD, the Dragons managed one hit -- a two-run homer by York in the first.  That gave them a 2-0 lead.

The Bulldogs cut the lead to 2-1 with an unearned run in the second, but MSUM made the one-run lead stand until the sixth. UMD capitalized on a pair of Dragon errors to score another run, tying the game at 2-2.

In the eighth, UMD scored twice to take a 4-2 lead, and the Dragons were unable to cut into the lead after that and fell by two runs.

Freshman Taylor Clifton pitched well in defeat for MSUM. She went the distance (eight innings), striking out one while walking four. She gave up four runs, but just two were earned.

MSUM is off until March 9 when it competes at the Rebel Spring Games in Orlando, Fla.