It has been a competitive last couple days against Southeast Conference competition for the Washington softball team, but the young Demons couldn’t cash in going 0-4 in a pair of doubleheaders. 

On Wednesday they fell to Burlington at home by 5-3 and 4-1 final scores. Bella Salazar led the offense on the night combining to go 4-for-5 with a pair of doubles. The freshman threw in the nightcap and tossed a complete game surrendering two earned runs on five hits. It took eight innings for the Grayhounds (7-3) to win in the first game with Washington’s Halle Cuddeback doing her job twirling all eight frames giving up three earned tallies on six hits and walking just one. 

Last night the orange and black traveled to Fairfield (6-4) with the home Trojans winning 6-1 and 15-11. The Demons could muster up only four hits in the opener, but took advantage of eight knocks in the nightcap to stay close. Both teams traded crooked number frames with the score tied at 8-8 in the seventh. Washington put up a three spot in the top of the inning, but a three run moonshot by Hannah Simpson and a walk-off grand slam by Emersyn Manley in the bottom half stole the victory from the visitors. Ella Greiner went 2-for-3 with two RBI and Haley Mitchell had a couple hits. 

Washington sits at 3-13 overall and 2-6 in the league with a weekend tournament in Jesup starting today.