CLERMONT, FL – In the final two games of the annual Spring Training Trip to Florida, the Nazareth University Softball team dropped a pair of games to North Country teams at the Legends Way Complex.

Nazareth (1-7) dropped a close 3-2 decision to St. Lawrence University in the opener and fell 11-2 in five innings to Clarkson University in the final game of the trip.

Against St. Lawrence, freshman Avery Zembek, sophomore Maddy Spakoski and freshman Morgan Russo collected two hits each with three of the six hits including both of the Russo hits being doubles.

The Golden Flyers took a 1-0 when Russo connected on a one-out double and two batters later, senior Megan Pum hit a double to right centerfield to score Russo.

St. Lawrence scored all three of its runs in the fourth inning with two coming with two outs in the inning to take a 3-1 lead.

Nazareth threatened in the bottom half of the inning as Spakoski singled and moved to third on another Russo double but both runners were stranded on base as the inning ended.

In the fifth, Nazareth scored to narrow the gap to a run. Madison Chodkowski singled and advanced to second on a wild pitch and then scored on a Zembek single.

Nazareth had a runner on base in the sixth but a double play ended the threat and had two runners on base in the seventh before a ground out ended the game.

Zembek went the distance for the Golden Flyers allowing six hits and three runs with four walks and four strikeouts.

In the second game of the day and the final game of the trip, Nazareth took an early lead with a pair of runs in the top of the first inning. Sophomore Maddie Klein walked to start the game and took second on a sacrifice bunt. She scored as Russo smashed a ball that bounced over the outfield fence for a ground rule double. Freshman Haleigh Suitor followed with a single to score Russo for the early 2-0 lead.

Clarkson answered with three runs in the bottom of the first and extended the lead to 5-2 with a pair of runs in the second frame. A six-run inning in the fourth gave the Knights an 11-2 lead and Nazareth went down 1-2-3 in the fifth to end the game.