WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Rutgers softball dropped both games on a doubleheader with Purdue to drop the series to the Boilermakers.

RU had early leads in both contests, but Purdue came back for a 6-5 extra-inning victory in game one and took the series with a 5-3 win in game two.

The losses drop the Scarlet Knights to 21-15 overall and 3-3 in Big Ten play.

Purdue 6, Rutgers 5 - 8 innings

• Mattie Boyd started the contest allowing no hits and no runs with only four Boilermakers reaching base.
• Morgan Smith registered the loss to drop to 8-6 in the circle with two earned runs on three hits tossing the final 3.2 of the game. At the plate, she delivered her 12^th home run of the season, a two-run shot to give RU a 2-0 edge after a half inning of play.
• LA Matthews registered a pair of doubles and an RBI.

• Morgan Smith crushed her first pitch of the day 220 feet over the wall in center field to give RU an early 2-0 lead.
• Rutgers loaded the bases and added three more after four and a half. With all aboard, LA Matthews scored Maddie Lawson on a ground out and Jillian Anderson and Kyleigh Sand came home after Smith reached on an error.
• Two errors, two stolen bases, four walks, a hit by pitch and only one Boilermaker hit was enough damage in the bottom of the fifth to tie the game at 5-5.
• The contest went into extras where in the eighth Purdue was able to score the game-winning run on a fielding miscue.

Purdue 5, Rutgers 3

• Morgan Smith collected her second home run of the day and 13^th of the season. She currently ranks second in the league in home runs behind Minnesota's Jess Oakland with 14.
• Smith got the start dropping to 8-6 throwing 2.1 innings with three strikeouts before Georgia Ingle tossed the final 3.2 allowing two hits and no runs.
• Kyleigh Sand added an RBI with a sac fly.
• Jillian Anderson was 2-for-3 with a run scored.

• Rutgers was once again the team to strike first scoring the game's first run in the top of the third. A sac fly by Kyleigh Sand brought home Jillian Anderson and two batters later Morgan Smith delivered her second home run of the afternoon. Her two-run shot over the wall in left-center gave RU a 3-0 edge.
• The hosts, however, came back with five runs in the bottom half. Back-to-back Boilermakers were hit at the plate with the bases loaded to plate a pair of runs and scoring continued with  a two-RBI single up the middle from Ryen Ross and an RBI base hit by Olivia McFadden.

• Morgan Smith finished the second Big Ten weekend batting .375 (3-for-8) with two home runs, four RBIs and three runs. She made three appearances in the circle tossing 13.0 innings with 11 striekouts holding opponents to a .188 batting average.
• Jillian Anderson was also .375 from the plate (3-for-8) with two runs scored.
• LA Matthews batted .333 (3-for-9) with two doubles, two runs score and an RBI.

• Rutgers softball begins a four-game homestand next week. The Scarlet Knights will welcome Hofstra on Wednesday, April 3 at 1 p.m. and Wisconsin for a three-game series on Friday, April 5 at 3 p.m., Saturday, April 6 at noon on BTN and Sunday, April 7 at 1 p.m. Admission for all home games is free. Click here to register for parking.