The loss drops Hofstra's record to 31-7 on the year, including 11-1 in the CAA. It also ends a 13-game winning streak for the Pride and a 14-game winning streak for freshman pitcher Olivia Galati (West Babylon, NY), who falls to 19-3 on the year. Towson improves to 25-14 and 7-5 in the CAA with the win.

Towson came out swinging in the bottom of the first as Rachel Miller led off with a line-drive triple that crossed up Pride center fielder Kris Root (Waynesboro, PA) and got to the wall. Kim Lempa followed with a single up the middle, and Sammi DiPompo doubled down the line over the third base bag to score Lempa. Mindy Bean squibbed an infield single to put runners on first and third, a groundout moved Bean to second, and Joyce Delp singled up the middle to score two more and stretch the lead to 4-0.

The four-run first marked the first struggles in the circle for Galati in over a month. She had not even allowed more than two runs in an entire game since her last loss, a 3-1 defeat to current No. 2 Michigan on March 14. The only other game she struggled in her college career was when she allowed six runs in four innings to nationally ranked Florida State on Feb. 27, including five in the third. She is now 19-0 when allowing two runs or fewer and 0-3 when opponents score three or more.

Galati was pulled from the game in the second after only 1.1 innings, the shortest start in her young career. She threw a three-hit shutout with nine strikeouts yesterday and then came on in relief to earn the save in the nightcap, helping the Pride to the 2-1 series win, the 19th straight CAA series that Hofstra has won.

Senior first baseman Michele DePasquale (Waterford, NJ) cut the Towson lead in half in the top of the third with a long homer to right-center, her team-leading seventh of the season. Root got on base in front of her with a one-out infield single, and DePasquale followed with a round-tripper, giving her three homers and 10 RBI in five games this week.

Galati flew out to the wall in right to end the third, and the Pride was unable to take advantage of a leadoff walk to junior third baseman Sara Michalowski (Philadelphia, PA) in the fourth. Freshman left fielder Becca Bigler (Bainbridge, PA) had a one-out single in the fifth and moved to second on a Root bunt, but DePasquale's drive into left-center hung in the air and was caught by Miller in front of the warning track.

Towson freshman pitcher Katie Lingmai walked Galati with one out in the sixth, and Michalowski made a bid to tie the game, but doubled off the wall in left to put runners on second and third with out. Lingmai bounced back with a strikeout, and then got junior shortstop Trisha Dreslinski (Kingsville, OH) to ground out to second to end the threat.

Sophomore pitcher Erin Wade (Taunton, MA) kept Hofstra in the game with 4.2 innings of scoreless relief, and the Pride nearly rallied after it was down to its final out. Root had a two-out infield single in the seventh to bring the tying run to the plate, and DePasquale scorched a line drive that one-hopped the wall in left-center, but it was hit so hard that she had to hold at first for a single, putting runners on first and third. Freshman right fielder Tessa Ziemba (Wilmington, DE) followed with an RBI single to left-center to pull the Pride within 4-3, and moved into second base on the throw to put runners on second and third with two outs, but Galati popped out in foul territory behind first base to end the game.

Michalowski was 2-for-2 with a walk at the plate for Hofstra, while DePasquale finished 2-for-4 with her two run homer in the third. Root was 2-for-3 with two runs scored for the Pride in the losing cause.

Hofstra will next be in action when it hosts Fordham on Tuesday for a 4 p.m. contest.