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Fort Myers FL, - Nazareth combined for 29 runs, behind 32 hits over its two games on Friday to sweep both SUNY Canton and Southern Vermont in five innings. The Golden Flyers defeated SUNY Canton 12-3, before blanking Southern Vermont, 17-0.
Delaney St. George (6-for-7) and
Marissa Tortora (6-for-9) each had six RBI on the day.
Nazareth moves to 3-1 on the season.
Game 1 – Nazareth 12, SUNY Canton 3 (5 innings)
Nazareth batted around in the third inning, erupting for eight runs. St. George, who led off the inning with a triple, had two hits in the frame. In her second at-bat, she singled and came all the way around to score, following an error by the left fielder – two more Nazareth runners scored on St. George's hit to make it 8-0.
Simmons picked up her first hit of the trip to pick up an RBI in the inning.
Stephanie Mongelli stayed hot, doubling to left for two RBI. Junior
Madison Joseph kept the double train going the very next batter to score Mongelli.
Alexa Rossi picked up her first-career RBI later in the inning.
Alicia Evan hit a three-run homer in the fourth for the Kangaroos lone scoring of the game.
Rossi notched her second hit of the day in the fifth and was later brought in when St. George belted a homer to center.
Tortora (2-for-4) ended the game on a two-RBI double.
Junior
Michaela Anderson was 3-for-3 in the game.
Kylie Smith earned her first-career win on the mound, allowing three runs on six hits, with four strikeouts.
Game 2 – Nazareth 17, Southern Vermont 0 (5 Innings)
The visitors exploded for six runs in each of the first two innings to jump out to a 12-0 advantage.
Tortora secured one of her four RBI in the first on a single.
Katherine Ruoff, who was 3-for-4, had an RBI as well.
St. George, who had two triples in the game, pushed around
Amanda Rose and
Gabriella Corasaniti to make it 6-0. She finished the game 3-for-4 with four RBI.
After six more runs in the second, Tortora blasted a solo shot to center to make it 13-0. The junior ended 4-for-5 with four RBI.
In the fourth,
Marissa Drees (2-for-4) joined in on the RBI train.
Corasaniti finished 2-for-4 with two RBI, while Mongelli was 2-for-4 with one RBI.
Corasantiti went three innings on the hill, allowing just one hit to move to 2-0 on the year.
Baileasue Rounds pitched the final two innings, allowing two hits.
