GRANVILLE -- The Defiance College softball team began its stretch of eight games in five days on Thursday with a pair of losses at Denison, losing 6-0 and 1-0.

Denison and Lovejoy are knotted for that fourth and final playoff spot at 3-3. Emerson is in sixth a game back of them, but it owns a tiebreaker over Denison after beating the Jackets earlier in the ...