Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 ROCKLIN, Calif. --- Less than a week following its sweep of the No. 1 team in the Golden State Athletic Conference, Biola Softball's momentum comes to a screeching halt with a pair of losses against the team that was in last place headed into this series, William Jessup.
 
The Warriors defended their home turf in fine fashion with a 3-0 victory in the first game before ending the day early with an 8-0 run-rule win in the second game.
 
Clearly, the story of the day was the William Jessup pitching staff. The Warriors held Biola's lineup to just nine total hits in the 13 innings that were played on Friday behind complete game performances from Shelbi Graifman and Jessica Myers.
 
Biola's hitters struck out 15 times in the two games on a day when they simply were not seeing the ball well at all.
 
William Jessup was seeing the ball just fine as it scored three runs in the first inning against Kendall Maddox in game one and then held that lead throughout. It did the same thing against Terri Van Dagens with a three-run blast in the first inning of game two and then added two more in the third and three in the sixth, which ultimately pushed the game into run-rule win territory.
 
One-third of Biola's hits on the afternoon went for extra-bases, but the strikeouts kept the Eagles' hitters from stringing enough together to even plate one run on the day. Bria Madrid, Heather Hall and Kimmy Triolo all had doubles in the losing efforts.
 
The losses drop Biola 1.5 games back of the Warriors in the battle for sixth place in the conference standings. The sixth-place team is the final team to make the GSAC Tournament field later this month.
 
Biola falls to 20-24-1 (6-11 GSAC) with the losses, while WJU improves to 15-21 (8-10 GSAC). The Eagles hop right back into it tomorrow as they face Menlo College at Menlo for two full games and the completion of a game that got suspended in play during the series between the two teams at Freedom Field earlier this month.
 
The play will begin at 12:00 p.m. PT as the two teams resume the suspended game before playing the regularly scheduled doubleheader. That contest was stopped heading into the bottom of the sixth (Biola's ABs) with Menlo holding an 8-5 lead.