OSWEGO, N.Y. -- Fredonia rolled to two more SUNYAC wins Saturday, 5-2 and 9-2 over Oswego.

The Blue Devils improved to 8-0 in the conference, the best SUNYAC start in the program's 20-year history. They are 11-8 overall.

The key to the Game 1 win was a four-run fifth inning. Tied 1-1 at the time, Fredonia took advantage of two Oswego errors in the inning, capped by a two-run double by Madeline Medina (Hamburg, N.Y./Hamburg).

Lindsey Forness (Allegany, N.Y./Allegany-Limestone) had a double and a single, Alyssa Morgan (Homer, N.Y./Homer) an RBI single, and Kate Nicholson (Heuvelton, N.Y./Heuvelton) scored two runs to support the eight-hit, 14-strikeout pitching of Kelsey Gannett (Endwell, N.Y./Union-Endicott). The 14 strikeouts matches Casey Mazaurek for the second-best game by a Blue Devil pitcher. Mazurek's 14 strikeouts came during a 2007 game vs. Albright.

The Blue Devils' single-game strikeout record is 20 by Stephanie Saviola vs. Geneseo in 2001.

Gannett improved to 6-2 on the season.

Fredonia rapped 12 hits in Game 2, led by Forness with a double and two singles. The five hits in the doubleheader lifted her batting average to a team-high .455.Forness also had two RBI as did Maggie Paras (Florida, N.Y./S.S. Seward). Both of Paras's RBI came during Fredonia's five-run seventh inning, which broke the game open.

Paras, Jess Lauck (Buffalo, N.Y./Kenmore West), and Katelyn Dennis (Webster, N.Y. / Webster Schroeder) had two hits each while Morgan scored three runs.

Megan Degroat (New Windsor, N.Y. / Cornwall) was the Fredonia pitcher of record (4-3). She worked into the seventh inning before Gannett came on to get the final five outs for her second save of the season.

Fredonia faces a stiff test Sunday when it visits perennial SUNYAC power Cortland. The Red Dragons improved to 5-1 in the conference by sweeping Buffalo State in a doubleheader Saturday.




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