HAVERFORD, Pa. - Elizabeth Newman had an impressive day at the plate but the Haverford College softball team dropped both games of a Centennial Conference doubleheader to visiting Swarthmore College at Class of '95 Field on Saturday afternoon. The Fords fell 5-4 in nine innings in Game 1 and lost 7-4 in Game 2.

Newman went 5-for-6 at the plate on the day but Haverford (15-16-1, 2-12 CC) could not get past the rival Garnet (18-18, 2-12).

Swarthmore and the Fords traded runs in the fourth inning of Game 1 before the Garnet went ahead 2-1 after the fifth.

Trailing 4-1, going into the bottom of the sixth, Haverford struck for two runs on three hits to pull within one. Dayle Comerford provided the big blast of the inning with a RBI-double.

Jill Schnall brought the Fords all the way back when her sacrifice fly scored Claire Fitzgerald in the bottom of the seventh to knot the score at 4-4.

Both squads went down in order in the eighth before Swarthmore scored the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth.

Newman had two of Haverford's six hits in the opening contest. Claire Fitzgerald (8-7) , on in relief, took the loss.

The Fords opened Game 2 with two runs in the bottom of the first on the strength of Jen DiCandilo's fourth home run of the season to take the early lead. DiCandilo's homer brought Newman, who had led off the game with a walk, around to score.

After the Garnet tied the score at 2-2 in the top of the third, Haverford regained the lead in the bottom of the inning with another RBI-double from Comerford doing the damage.

Swarthmore scored the next five runs of the contest before Laina Gagliardi accounted for the Fords' final run of the game in the sixth frame.

Newman went 3-3 and scored two runs in Game 2. Pitching into the sixth, Fitzgerald struck out four.

Haverford heads to Arcadia University on Tuesday for its final non-conference action of the season. The doubleheader begins at 3 p.m.