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KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Nazareth's early season offensive woes continued Monday as the Golden Flyers squandered a pair of strong pitching performances in suffering two more softball defeats. In the first game, Kean University of New Jersey rallied from a 1-0 deficit to win 4-1. In the second game, Ramapo scored the only run of the game in the fifth inning for a 1-0 victory.

Nazareth, now 0-4, plays two more games Tuesday -- vs. St. Benedict at 3 p.m. and vs. Framingham State at 5 p.m.

Nazareth totaled just seven hits in the two games Monday and has a team batting average of just .157 with one extra-base hit in the first four games.

In Monday's first game, sophomore Casey Mathers shut Kean out for the first four innings, before the Cougars rallied to score four times in the final three innings to win their first game of the season.

Nazareth took a 1-0 lead in the third after freshman Liz Toner reached on a lead-off walk. She advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Jen Durso and scored one out later on a single by Meg DeMario.

Kean tied the score in the fourth on a run-scoring triple by Alicia Banz. The Cougars added two more runs in the fifth on a two-run homer by Nicole Scarillo and one in the sixth on a squeeze bunt by Banz.

Sophomore Kaitlin Graham and freshman Kasey Pollot were the only other Nazareth players to reach on base hits.

In the second game, Nazareth junior Kelly Kocher pitched six innings and gave up just three hits with 12 strikeouts. Ramapo scored the game's only run in the fifth inning as Lisa Orlando reached base on a passed ball after striking out. She later scored an unearned run on a single by Jaclyn Giangrande.

Nazareth's best scoring chance came in the fourth inning, but Graham and Brittany Patenaude were left stranded after reaching base to lead off the inning. A second-inning single by freshman Claire Campbell and a sixth-inning single by Mathers accounted for Nazareth's only other offense.