COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – The Ursinus College softball team stands at 1-1 after the first day of the 2010 Centennial Conference Championships hosted by Ursinus at Eleanor Frost Snell Field.

The Bears, seeded number one, lost their opening game to Dickinson 1-0, then battled back to stay alive in the tournament with a 3-1 win over Gettysburg.

Ursinus (28-6) will face third-seeded Swarthmore Sunday morning at 10 in the consolation final. If the Bears defeat the Garnet, they will face fourth-seeded Dickinson in the championship game at noon. One more loss by Ursinus and they will be eliminated.

In the opener, Ursinus was held to just one hit and had just two base runners. The lone hit came in the bottom of the sixth as freshman outfielder Amy Gentile (Lumberton, N.J./Rancocas Valley) bunt singled, but, was stranded at second.

Dickinson scored its lone run in the fifth as the Ursinus defense committed two critical errors with two outs in the inning that allowed the Red Devils to score.

For Ursinus, senior pitcher Lauren Davis-Macedonia (Mullica Hill, N.J./Clearview Regional) took the loss, despite allowing just two hits and no earned runs. She struck out ten and walked one.

Allison Jordan had the win in game one for Dickinson, striking out four.

In the Gettysburg game, Ursinus played as the visiting team and scored a run in the third on a sacrifice fly by freshman shortstop Kelli Jerdan (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) that scored freshman first baseman Allison Pfrommer (Franklinville, N.J./Delsea Regional).

Ursinus took a 2-0 lead in the sixth as Gentile scored on a RBI single by Pfrommer.

In the seventh, Ursinus got a RBI single from Gentile to scored sophomore pinch runner Rachael Vietheer (Bethpage, N.Y./Bethpage).

Gettysburg, trailing 3-1 in the seventh, had two runners on with one out but could not score.

Sophomore right fielder Kelly Kalovcak (Pottsville, Pa./Minersville Area) was 3-for-4 in game two, while junior third baseman Kristen Gallagher (Newtown Square, Pa./Marple Newtown) had two hits.

Davis-Macedonia got the win, striking out eight and scattering four hits.