Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The offense for 10th-ranked Rollins College came alive again, using a combined 26 hits to score 17 runs in a sweep against the Eckerd College softball program on Saturday afternoon at the Turley Athletic Complex, 8-3 and 9-4.
Rollins' Aimee Halpin homered as the first batter of the afternoon to straight-away center. Tars' freshman Niki Fogle followed suit in the top of the second as she slugged a two-run shot to put the Tars up over the Tritons, 3-1.
RC's Hilary Brown also homered twice, her fifth and sixth roundtrippers of the season in the form of a sixth-inning two-run blast in game one and another two-run shot in the seventh of game two.
Stephanie Sullivan got the start in the circle for the Tars (32-4, 9-3 SSC) to begin game one and earned the win, improving her record to 10-3 overall.
Two wild pitches from Sullivan and a two-out run-scoring single to right field from sophomore
Brittany Mitchell put the Tritons (14-22, 2-10 SSC) on the board in their first series of plate appearances.
Later, EC freshman
Kara Oberer clobbered her SSC-leading 10th home run of the spring, a two-run shot in the bottom of the sixth inning. She plated junior
Chelsea Jeffares, who began the inning with a leadoff runner by reaching with a bunt single.
Fogle came back to start the second game after tossing a nine-strikeout gem in last night's rain-shortened series opener. She added to her SSC-best win total, tallying No. 17 with a six-hit complete-game effort.
The Tritons' pitching staff scattered 14 hits as the Tars generated nine runs in the box score.
Following the same script from Friday-night's contest, junior
Kaitlyn Dougherty received the start to begin for the Tritons as senior
Logan Rohrbach came in to relieve in the middle innings.
The Tars had six starters in the lineup record two hits apiece as part of the offensive attack to back Fogle in her start.
Play had resumed in the top of the sixth after a scary moment on the field when junior
Ashleigh Bynum was carted off following a tipped foul ball that caught her flush in the catcher's mask.
Down by a seven-run margin in the bottom of the sixth inning of game two, the Tritons scored an inspiring three runs to put a little heat on Rollins in the late stages.
After a Jeffares double to the right-field corner, freshman
Amanda Green brought her home with runners on first second. Junior
Taylor Styke came through right after, unloading on a pitch for a two-run double that found the right-center gap that scored Green and senior
Kristen Schurr.
The Tritons will continue their current homestand as they play host to Taylor (Ind.) University this coming Tuesday at 5 p.m. at the Turley Athletic Complex.
