FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - Despite a solid pitching performance from Stevenson softball freshman Katie Diller (Chambersburg, Pa./Chambersburg), a two-out double by Hannah Williams in the bottom of the fifth gave Mary Washington a 2-1 victory in the first round of the CAC Softball Championship Tuesday at the Battleground Complex.

The fifth-seeded Mustangs (14-21) will now host sixth-seeded Hood in an elimination game on Thursday at Weinberg-Fine Stadium beginning at 4:00 p.m. The Blazers fell on the road at No. 18 Salisbury on Tuesday, 12-0 in five innings.

Diller scattered nine hits over 6.0 innings while striking out three and allowing just two earned runs. It was her second one-run loss against the Eagles this season after she held them to just three earned runs in a 4-3 loss at home on April 10.

Mary Washington (23-16) jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first on an RBI-single by CAC Player of the Week Morgan Lamon that scored Brandee Adams.

Stevenson avoided further damage in the second inning, staging off three runners in scoring position. After a lead-off double by Williams, she was thrown out returning to second on a fly ball to left by Brittany Scites. The Eagles then loaded the bases with two outs before Diller got Adams to pop out to short to end the inning.

The Mustangs tied the game in the top of the fourth on a RBI-double by sophomore Lindsay Kuczak (Bel Air, Md./C. Milton Wright) that scored senior Lisa Bilski (Forest Hill, Md./Fallston). Kuczak was then picked off at second before Diller walked and advanced to third on a wild pitch.

With two outs and the go-ahead run on third, Mary Washington's Hannah Otterman got sophomore Sara DiMeglio (Spotswood, N.J./Spotswood) to groundout to short, ending the inning.

The game would stay tied at 1-1 until Williams' RBI-double in the fifth. Meanwhile, Otterman retired nine of the final 11 batters she faced over the final three innings to preserve the win for the Eagles and pick up her 11th win of the season.

Bilski and sophomore Kristin Baione (Waldorf, Md./North Point) each went 2-for-3 for Stevenson who went 1-for-6 with runners in scoring position and left six runners on base.

Otterman allowed just one run on six hits over 7.0 innings while striking out three for Mary Washington who will host Frostburg State on Thursday in the second round. Lamon and Williams each went 2-for-3 with one RBI.