GROVE CITY, Pa. -- The Grove City College softball team dropped to 3-3 in the Presidents' Athletic Conference Monday evening as visiting Geneva took both ends of a conference doubleheader at College Field. Geneva rallied for a 7-5 win in Game One, then held off Grove City's comeback effort in the second game, 6-4.

Grove City (11-9, 3-3 PAC) jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the opener by scoring twice in each of the first two innings. Junior first baseman Brooke Brodie (Mogadore, Ohio/Mogadore) led off with a double and then opened the scoring when junior second baseman Maci Linhart (Columbiana, Ohio/Columbiana) singled and escaped a rundown.

Linhart, who finished 2 for 3, gave Grove City a 2-0 lead when she scored on a double from freshman left fielder Evelyn Montone (Allentown, Pa./Parkland). In the second inning, junior third inning Rachel Zona (New Castle, Pa./New Castle) scored on an error while Brodie's groundout scored sophomore center fielder Noel Anthony (Clarion, Pa./Clarion). 

Two errors and three walks helped fuel Geneva's six-run outburst in the third inning, however. Geneva extended its lead to 7-4 in the fourth inning. 

Grove City cut the margin to 7-5 in the sixth inning when junior right fielder Annika Rinehart (McDonald, Pa./Fort Cherry) singled in Montone. Grove City stranded the potential tying runs on base in the sixth inning, however. 

Freshman pitcher Abigail Meadors (Warren, Ohio/Champion) started and allowed five earned runs. She took the setback. Freshman Alexis Jackson (Coventry Township, Ohio/Coventry) pitched the final five innings in relief, allowing one unearned run. Jackson struck out four batters. 

Grove City took a 2-1 lead in the first inning of the nightcap as Montone tripled in Brodie, then came home when Jackson belted a double to left field. 

Geneva forged a 2-2 tie in the third inning, then took a 6-2 lead in the sixth inning. Zona singled in Linhart in the sixth inning while Anthony scored on a seventh-inning groundout by senior catcher Lauren Harris (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Allegheny). 

Anthony finished 2 for 3 while Linhart and Montone both went 2 for 4. 

Jackson started in the pitcher's circle and allowed one earned run in three innings. Brodie pitched 2 2/3 innings of relief. She gave up a pair of earned runs and absorbed the defeat. Meadors recorded the final four outs in relief, with three coming via strikeout. 

Grove City will visit Thiel at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in a conference doubleheader.