WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Junior center fielder Alexis McFarland hit a combined 7-for-9 with three extra-base hits, five runs scored and four more batted in, but St. Francis failed to turn 29 total hits into victories, dropping both ends of a non-league softball doubleheader at River City Saturday. The Troubadours fell to the host Raiders, 15-14, then lost a neutral-site game against former Delta League foe Pleasant Grove in the nightcap.

St. Francis dips to 2-14 for the year.

McFarland went 4-for-5 with a triple, two stolen bases, three runs and two RBI as part of the Troubies 17-hit onslaught against River City. Claire Krotine batted 3-for-4 with a triple and three runs at the top of the order, while Isabella Barge, Kaili Heeb and Jaeya Leavitt also rapped out two hits apiece. However, the Raiders posted crooked numbers in each of the second through fifth innings, building as much as a 14-6 lead by the middle of the fifth.

St. Francis chipped away at the lead, with a two-run Heeb double contributing to a six-run seventh. Two Raider errors also helped extend the rally, but a force out finally ended the Troubie threat. The contest was mired with 12 total errors: seven by River City and five by SF.

Sophomore Jocelyn Villaflor smacked her first double of her Troubie varsity career for a fourth SF extra-base hit in the opener, although he was thrown out at third attempting to stretch the hit into another triple.

The nightcap against the Eagles had a similar shape despite a smaller amplitude: PG rolled to as much as a 7-0 lead through its four frames at the plate until Krotine and Barge each tripled as part of a three-run frame. McFarland, Barge and Heeb each doubled in the two-run fifth, but St. Francis never fully erased the initial deficit.

Ultimately, nine different Troubies managed at least one hit against PG: three from McFarland, two from Barge, plus one each from Krotine, Heeb, Villaflor, Reese Lewis, Kinsley Imm, Ariella Alcantar and Olivia Meisner. In fact, SF finished with 23 total bases in the contest. The Troubies had five doubles, including the first in the career for Meisner; and three triples, including the first off the bat of Villaflor.

Still, PG sophomore second baseman Natalie Brozaitis hit 4-for-4 with two doubles and a triple to lead her team's 12-hit outburst.

St. Francis returns to Sierra Foothill League play in a road game at Granite Bay on Wednesday, then heads south to Tracy for the NorCal Leadoff Classic on Thursday and Friday.