CROWN POINT, Ind. -- The No. 2-seeded University of St. Francis softball team began the second day of the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Tournament with a 4-1 win over No. 5 seed Olivet Nazarene University, but the Fighting Saints could not double their luck in falling to No. 6 seed Calumet College of St. Joseph (Ind.) by a 10-4 count later in the day on Saturday afternoon.

The loss was the second for St. Francis in the double-elimination tournament, resulting in the completion the season for head coach Alyssa Moreno's squad.

Isabella Landeros (4-for-6) authored four hits over the two contests, while Emily Boyle (3-for-5, 1 RBI), Jaelynn Taylor (3-for-6, 3 RBIs) and Hailey Kaddatz (3-for-6, 2 RBIs) registered three hits apiece between each end of the twinbill.

Game 1: USF 4, Olivet Nazarene 1
Kiersten Manning (12-8) came out strong in the circle, coming one wild pitch short in the top of the fourth inning of notching her third shutout of the season.  She finished the game scattering six hits and striking out six batters throughout the seven inning affair, while allowing just two base runners to reach third base.

USF took advantage of a third-inning ONU (23-19) error to score its second run of the game after Landeros (single) came around to score on Kaddatz's one-out double in the second inning.

Taylor took credit for adding two insurance runs for the Saints in both the fourth and sixth frames on a one-out single up the middle followed by a towering homerun to centerfield, respectively.

Landeros, Taylor and Kaddatz each had two hits as part of USF's eight-hit attack.

Game 2: Calumet St. Joseph 10, USF 4
Twenty CCSJ hits and four USF defensive miscues eventually did St. Francis in as Calumet St. Joseph (17-26) scored a trio of multiple run innings and had five of its 10 runs gifted as unearned.

A four-hit first inning got the Crimson Wave on the scoreboard before the Saints got one of those runs back one half inning later when Kylie Cook doubled to allow for Boyle to cross the plate.

CCSJ would tack on two more runs to their total in the third inning and a single run in the fourth to mark the score at 6-1 with the Saints cutting the deficit in half by plating two runs of their own in the bottom half of the latter frame.  Back-to-back doubles from Emily Hurst and Taylor resulted in the first run of that inning while a RBI-single from Kaddatz accounted for the second.

Three more runs would follow from the Crimson Wave in the fifth inning with each team trading single runs to close out the game at 10-4 in the last two stanzas.

Boyle, Hurst and Landeros led the way offensively for the Saints, each registering two hits apiece in the contest.

Morgan Smardo shouldered the loss in the circle, dropping her season record to 0-3 on the year.  Boyle and Manning combined for 10 strikeouts in relief.

For their production throughout the duration of the tournament, Boyle, Landeros and Manning were all named to the 2025 CCAC All-Tournament Team.

The Saints finished the 2024-25 season at 20-20.

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