GREENVILLE, N.C. – Colgate split its opening doubleheader on Friday with a 5-1 win over Wagner followed by a 4-2 decision against host East Carolina.  
 
Mia Edwards and Kaitlyn Borruso combined to pitch the Raiders to victory in the opening game against Wagner. Jillian Herbst had a hit in each game to extend her season-opening hitting streak to seven games, while Rachel Carney and Morgan Farrah each drove in a pair of runs.
 
Game 1 | Colgate 5, Wagner 1
 
Edwards and Borruso scattered five hits and one earned run over seven innings of work. Borruso earned the win, allowing three hits with one strikeout over four scoreless innings of relief.
 
Colgate scored all five runs in the top of the second inning. Steph Jacoby was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded before Carney ripped a two-run double to center field. With two outs, Farrah poked a single into right field to score two more and extend Colgate's lead to 5-0.
 
Back-to-back walks ended Edwards' day in the bottom of the fourth, but Borruso came in for relief and nabbed two flyouts – one a sacrifice fly – to keep the Raiders in front 5-1.
 
Borruso was smooth sailing through the fifth and sixth before working around two base hits in the seventh. With runners on the corners, Borruso induced a groundout to third and Farrah threw across the diamond in time to secure the 5-1 victory in the Game 1.
 
Game 2 | East Carolina 4, Colgate 2
 
Colgate's five-game winning streak came to an end in the nightcap with a narrow 4-2 defeat to East Carolina. The Raiders struck first when Taylor Ludwick drilled a solo homer over the wall in left field in the top of the first, but runs were hard to come from that point on.
 
Colgate was trailing for the first time all day when Sydney Yoder scored two runs on an infield single in the bottom of the fourth. Misken got out of the jam with back-to-back groundouts to keep the margin at 2-1.
 
After picking up the win in the circle in Game 1, Borruso came to the plate in the top of the sixth and tied the game with a pinch-hit RBI single to right field scoring Meaghan Houk.
 
Unfortunately Colgate's momentum was halted in the home half of the inning when the Pirates sent seven batters to the plate and scratched two runs across. A pinch-hit two-run double by Keira Womack handed the lead back to East Carolina 4-2.
 
The Raiders were unable to stage another rally in the seventh and the win streak snapped with a groundout to second capping off the 4-2 decision.

UP NEXT
Colgate (5-2) is back in action for two games on Saturday. The Raiders take on Rutgers at 12:30 p.m. and square off with East Carolina for the second time in the night cap at 5:30 p.m.