CLERMONT, Fla. – Fredonia finished its Spring Games trip with a pair of losses Friday, 8-0 to Ohio Wesleyan and 8-7 to the U.S. Coast Guard in nine innings.

The two losses dropped the Blue Devils to 5-9 overall, including five wins in Florida.

Devils in the details:

GAME ONE

• Ohio Wesleyan chased Fredonia starter Katie Yudin with five runs, two of them earned, on four hits in the top of the first inning.
• Karli Murray led off the last of the first with a triple, but was erased at the plate on a squeeze play. That was the closest the Blue Devils came to scoring in a game abbreviated to five innings by the mercy rule.
• Maria Caviris pitched 4 1/3 innings of relief and gave up her first two earned runs of the season. They both came on one swing, a two-run homer by OWU's Aimee Duckworth in the top of the fourth. The Battling Bishops also scored an unearned run during the inning to complete their scoring.

GAME TWO

• Coast Guard strung together four hits to score two runs of the bottom of the first.
• Fredonia batted around and took its first leadoff the day with six runs in the second. made it 2-1 in the second on a bloop single by right by Nicole Kumro, a sac bunt by Megan Maull, and an RBI double on  a sinking liner to left by Sydney Merkley. The first of two Coast Guard errors made it 2-2. Later in the inning, Maddy O'Heir, Yudin, Eva FitzSimmons, and Cassie Herman had RBI later in the inning, with Herman delivering a double, Kumro made the final out with a liner to center.
• Coast Guard rallied for four runs in the fourth to forge a 6-6 tie, chasing Blue Devil starting pitcher Sam Seegar.
• The International tiebreaker – a runner placed on second base to start the inning – went into effect in the top of the eighth. Neither team scored until the top of the ninth, when the Blue Devils took a 7-6 lead on a sacrifice fly by Yudin.
• Coast Guard scored twice in the last of the ninth, the winning run coming in on a hit by pitch with the bases loaded.

QUICK TAKES

• O'Heir hit safely in each game Friday to extend her hitting streak to seven games.

WHAT'S NEXT?

• The Blue Devils return to Western New York – and SUNYAC competition – when they play host to Buffalo State on March 30 in a doubleheader starting at noon. It's the next meeting in the Battle of Lake Erie, currently led by Fredonia by one point.