CLEMONT, Fla. -- Fredonia State rolled over Mount Ida, 17-4, and outlasted Bates, 5-2, in a pair of games Thursday at Hancock Park.
Heavy hitting was the story of the first game.
Danielle Shelp pitched a three-hit complete game in the nightcap.
The Blue Devils improved to 6-2 with the two wins with two more games remaining Friday -- 9 a.m. vs. Minot State and 11 a.m. vs. St. Scholastica -- before they return home.
The first seven batters reached base safely, and five of them scored, against Mount Ida. The Blue Devils collected 15 hits overall.
The first three batters in the order --
Anne Wasik (Fredonia),
Tina Schwartzmeyer (West Seneca), and
Katie Bartkowiak (Fredonia) -- had three hits each. Wasik was 3 for 3 with four RBI, and Scwartzmeyer also had four RBI.
Hannah Vesneske (Hamburg) added two hits and three RBI, including a two-run homer in the seventh inning. It was the first homer of the spring by the Blue Devils.
Jamie Atkins (East Amherst) and
Brittany Lis (Lancaster) also had two hits.
Ashley LaPorta (Buffalo) earned the pitching win in relief of Raela Wiley (Wilson). LaPorta allowed two runs in 3 2/3 innings. She struck out three and improved to 1-1. Wiley allowed two runs, one earned, as the starter. It was the first earned run she has allowed in two seasons as a Blue Devil, a stretch covering 33 2/3 innings.
In the second game, Shelp took a shutout into the seventh before Bates pushed across two runs. She retired the final two batters with two runners on to improve to 2-0.
Eight players had at least one hit, and Wasik had two. She figured in the scoring in the sixth inning when she singled, advanced to second on a single by Schwartzmeyer, to third on an infield grounder, and scored on a sacrifice fly by
Lauren Larson (Lakewood).
Larson also drove in the first Blue Devil run with a two-out single in the first inning following a single by Bartkowiak and a wild pitch. Wasik had an RBI single in the second to drive in Lis, who had walked. In the fifth, Lis dropped a two-out, two-run single into short right following back-to-back singles by Vesneske and
Michelle Lattner (Cheektowaga).
