NAPLES, FL – Junior Janelle Walters had three hits and scored three runs while fellow junior Katherine Ruoff added three hits and three runs batted in as the Nazareth College softball team earned its first win of the season with a 3-2 victory over Curry in the first game of the day Thursday in Florida.

Nazareth (1-7) dropped an 8-4 decision to Alfred State in the second game of the day to finish with a split.

Walters scored runs in the first, third and fifth innings and finished 3-for-4 with three runs. Ruoff had the RBI in each inning with a single and two doubles. The only other hit for the Golden Flyers came from the bat of senior Kristen Simmons. Senior Mackenzie Kapp had a pair of sacrifice bunts for Nazareth.

Sophomore Maddie Funk started and tossed the first six innings as she scattered seven hits, allowed one run and struck out four batters.

In game two, Nazareth struck first with a run in the bottom of the first. Walters walked to open the inning, stole second and moved to third on a Kapp sacrifice bunt before scoring on Ruoff's ground out to the pitcher.

Alfred State (5-5) answered in the second with an unearned run after the leadoff batter reached on an error and came around to score two batters later.

The game remained tied until the fourth inning when the Nazareth defense struggled and the Pioneers capitalized to score seven unearned runs on five hits and three errors and took an 8-1 lead.

The Golden Flyers rallied for three runs in the seventh inning as junior Gabriella Corasaniti, Walters and Kapp each had hits. Pinch runner junior Marissa Drees, sophomore Aubrin Smith and sophomore Allison Smith each scored runs in the inning.

Nazareth will complete the spring trip with games against Oneonta and Crown (Minn) at the Century Link complex in Fort Myers.