BETHANY, W.VA. -- Reigning Presidents' Athletic Conference champion Washington & Jefferson was eliminated from the 2015 PAC Softball Tournament with a pair of losses on the tournament's opening day, 8-7 to Thomas More and 5-2 against Saint Vincent.

With the losses, the Presidents end the 2015 campaign with an 18-18 overall record after dropping the final eight games of the season. 

W&J led 7-5 with two outs in the bottom of the seventh against Thomas More, but a bases-loaded walk and a two-run single sent the second-seeded Saints to the walk-off victory, 8-7.

It was a back-and-forth contest up to that point, as the Saints struck with a run in the bottom of the first before the Presidents answered with two in the top of the second on a two-run triple by Breanna Gleason that scored Jen Bahm and Meghan Staab who had both singled earlier in the frame. Rachel Marx led off the third with a single and was sacrificed to second by Sadie Marak before going to third and eventually home on wild pitches, 3-1.

In the fourth, Chalese Wilson hit her first homer of the season and second of her career in controversial fashion down the left-field line. Initially, the third-base umpire called it foul, but after an appeal from head coach Nicole Vitello that the umpire's confer to discuss the play, the home plate umpire ruled the ball went over the foul pole for a homer, 4-1.

Thomas More, however, plated four runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a 5-4 lead. The Presidents used three in the top of the fifth to take back the advantage, 7-5. Abby Cunningham led off with a single and eventually moved to third on a pair of ground outs. Emily Watson poked an RBI single up the middle, just under the pitcher's glove, to tie the game and then Bahm belted her team-leading third homer to left center to make it a 7-5 game. 

Watson (10-7) suffered the loss in relief, pitching the final 0.2 innings and allowing four hits and three earned runs with a walk. Krista McCartney received the no decision after working the first 6.0 innings and yielding eight hits and five runs with three walks and four strike outs.

Bahm, Wilson and Gleason each recorded extra-base hits for the Presidents, with Bahm and Marx collecting multi-hit games as well.

In the tournament's first elimination game, the first batter of the game for the Bearcats hit a home run down the left field line to put the fourth seed up 1-0. Three-straight singles by W&J in the bottom of the inning loaded the bases before Cunningham scored to tie the game when Watson eached on an error. The inning ended, however, when Bahm hit into a triple play, grounding out to the pitcher who threw home for the force and got Bahm at first and then Marak was thrown out trying to score from second on a play at the plate.

There would be no other runs until SVC scored twice in the top of the fifth and an RBI double by Marx brought W&J within one, 3-2. The Bearcats added solo runs in the sixth and seventh innings to post the 5-2 win.

Marx collected two of W&J's five hits in the second game. McCartney was dealt the loss after surrendering four runs (three earned) on five hits and three walks (two strike outs) in 5.0 innings.