The Tompkins Cortland softball season ended Tuesday, with the Panthers dropping a doubleheader to Erie Community College, 14-5 and 10-2. Tompkins Cortland ends the year with a record of 1-25 on the year. Erie finishes at 8-12; Adirondack is 7-18.

Game One: Erie 14, Tompkins Cortland 5  (5 innings)

Erie took an early lead with three runs in the first and second innings. The Panthers got on the board in the bottom of the second inning when Lana Thousand (Onondaga/Onondaga H.S.) and Austyn Vance (Nichols/Tioga H.S.) followed with her fifth home run of the season, a line drive through the wind over the right-center field fence to make the score 6-2. Erie added two more in the fourth, and after a scoreless fourth, put three more across in the top of the fifth to lead 11-2. In the bottom of the fifth, the Panthers were able to string together three two-out hits to plate three runs and keep the game going into the sixth. Three more for Erie in the top of the sixth, followed by a scoreless bottom for the Panthers, ended the game with a final score of 14-5.

Vance was the hitting star, going 2-for-3 with a homer and a triple, three RBI, and two runs scored. Thousand and Karissa Wilbur (McGraw/McGraw H.S.) also went 2-for-3, with each driving in a run.

Game Two: Erie 10, Tompkins Cortland 2  (5 innings)

Erie scored in each inning of game two, building their way to an 8-0 lead heading into the fifth. In the top of the fifth, Tompkins Cortland put together a couple of walks with one out in front of Gabby Foley (Barton/Tioga H.S.), who drove a double to score the first run. A groundout by Aliana Hart (Fort Covington/Salmon River H.S.) scored the second run and made the score 9-2, getting the Panthers within the eight-run threshold to keep the game going. The extension was sort, as four errors led to a pair of Erie runs in the bottom of the fifth, ending the game by the run rule.

Vance had another extra-base hit in game two, a double, to put her season average at .350. Gabby Foley's double ended her season with team-bests of seven doubles and a .352 batting average.