The softball team entered the month of April without much action on the season, enduring a two week gap between games due to weather cancellations.

Although the weather finally allowed the team a full week of games, the Judges went 1-3 in their first week at home, dropping both parts of a doubleheader to Wellesley College on Wednesday, 9-6 and 11-1. The squad also only managed to split Thursday's doubleheader versus Endicott College, winning 9-6 and losing 11-1.

Right fielder Danielle Novotny '16 alluded to the extensive gaps in scheduling as a contributing factor for the three losses.

"Between the Florida trip [in mid-March] and our first season games [last weekend] it was a little hard between playing every day in Florida and having two weeks off," she said. "Fundamentally we're sound and we're a little bit rusty getting back."

Thursday's win over Endicott was not without a milestone. Center fielder Amanda Genovese '15 recorded her 100th and 101st career stolen bases in the Judges' 9-6 win in the first game. However, the squad's offense was quieted in the second game against the Gulls, only managing a single run in a 9-1 loss to push the Judges record to 11-9 for the season.

Genovese went three-for-five in the win with two runs scored, part of a seven-for-15 week from the plate in which she scored five of the Judges' 17 runs.

Starting pitcher Melissa Nolan '14 picked up the win on Thursday, recording six innings of work in which she gave up only six hits and struck out six batters. Nolan also went one-for-four from the plate in the win, scoring on a three-run home run by left fielder Madison Hunter '17 that capped a six-run sixth inning by the Judges.

The Judges scored in bunches in game one of Thursday's doubleheader, crossing home plate three times in the third inning on a fielder's choice by Hunter, a double by Genovese and a single by shortstop Anya Kamber '15.

Kamber picked up her second RBI in the sixth inning with a single to set the table for a two-run single by first baseman Cori Coleman '15. Hunter eventually ended the scoring frenzy with her first long ball of the season. Novotny went two-for-four on the day, scoring on Hunter's fielder's choice in the fourth inning.

Pitcher Emma Krulick '17 came on in relief of Nolan to lock up the game, working out of a jam with two runners on and nobody out to retire the side and seal the victory.

The Judges could not keep their momentum going in the second game. Only Nolan and Kamber recorded multiple hits and the team was rung up for seven strikeouts. The Judges also fell victim to the long ball, ceding a pair of Endicott home runs to hand the Gulls a 4-0 lead they would not relinquish.

Novotny said the lack of offense displayed by the Judges approved to be more of a result of a mental gap than a lack of talent.

"[Our offense] is a very mental thing, when we can string our hits together everyone jumps on board," she said. "To make that all work we need to get on the same page and have energy and enthusiasm and have confidence in what we're doing at the plate."

In their home-opening doubleheader last Thursday, the Judges failed to string together enough offense to take down the Wellesley Blue, dropping the first game 9-6 and the second game 11-1.

Kamber led the Judges' offense in the opener with a three-run home run in the top of the fifth inning, handing the Judges a 4-1 lead at the time. However, a seven-run sixth would swing the game in favor of the Blue. Pitcher Nikki Cote '15 picked up the loss, giving up five runs in 1.2 innings of work.

The second half of the doubleheader was no better.

Wellesley scored nine runs in the first two innings to quickly put the game out of reach, eventually taking the game by a score of 11-1.

Genovese recorded the Judges' only hit on the game, a leadoff single to begin the bottom of the first, later coming home on a sacrifice fly by Kamber.

Even though the offense struggled, Novotny said she still believes in the team's ability to record wins.

"We're a fundamentally sound team and we know we can beat anyone," she said.

The Judges return to action today in a doubleheader at Lasell College before traveling to Salem State University for another doubleheader on Thursday.