The Salisbury softball team struggled through a tough week with three losses that extended its skid to seven straight games. The latest setback came against Notre Dame-Green Pond in a 4-1 loss on Monday.

The Falcons (0-7 Colonial, 1-7 overall) managed just two hits against starting pitcher Rachel Fisher, who has turned out to be a freshman phenom for the Crusaders (5-2, 5-3).

Beth Carney and Taylor Wagner had the two hits with Carney homering in the bottom of the sixth for Salisbury. Carney, a senior, also threw seven innings and struck out five Crusader batters in the game.

The tandem of Carney and Wagner have been hot lately with Carney going 7-for-13 (.538) at the plate with a home run and two RBI in her last four games. Wagner, a freshman, homered in a 7-3 loss to Bangor (2-5, 2-7) and has hits in her last two games for the Lady Falcons.

Jenna Swoyer, another freshman player for Salisbury, collected two hits in an 8-4 loss at Wilson (4-2, 4-3) last Saturday.

The upcoming schedule has a trip to Kintnersville to play Palisades (4-2, 5-3) before home games against Southern Lehigh (3-2, 3-4) and Saucon Valley (1-5, 1-5).

The game against Saucon Valley will be played at Patriots’ Park in Allentown as part of the Colonial League takeover of the historic park with all 12 league teams playing the

re Friday and Saturday. The Falcons and Panthers meet at 6:30 Friday night and will be broadcast on PennSportsRadio.com and the Penn Sports Radio app.