KISSIMMEE, FL ? The University of Hartford softball team picked up a 10-1 victory over Columbia on Tuesday morning and followed with a 5-1 win over Fairleigh Dickinson in the afternoon at the Rebel Spring Games.
Hartford (9-1 overall) extended its winning streak to eight games as sophomore Brittney Stratton and freshman Amanda Singer each picked up wins inside the circle. Stratton, who improved to 5-0, threw four scoreless innings and gave up only four hits. Singer improved to 4-1 and scattered four hits over seven innings while striking out and walking three.
Against Columbia in the morning, freshman Lauren Kamena went 2-for-2 at the plate with a career-high five RBI. She hit a two-run single in the first inning and added a three-run double in the second as Hartford jumped out to a 10-0 lead after two innings. Sophomore Amanda Dilworth also picked up a pair of hits with a double and triple.
Stratton worked four clean innings before handing the ball over to freshman Amanda Farnan in the fifth to close out the game. Farnan gave up the lone run on a single, though it was an unearned run.
Hartford found itself in an unfamiliar position of late against Fairleigh Dickinson in the afternoon?trailing after three innings. The Knights pushed across a run in the top of the third to take a 1-0 lead, though Singer did well to get out of the inning relatively unscathed. After FDU scored the run it had runners at the corners with only one out. Singer then got a pop up and a strike out to limit the damage and get the Hawks out of the inning.
Junior Amanda Sais put Hartford in front in the fourth with a base-loaded single that plated two. The Hawks then added three more runs in the sixth behind RBI singles by senior Alex Morley and sophomore Olivia Piacentini and a ground out by classmate Rachel Clonick.
Singer worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the sixth but set the side down in order in the seventh. Sais finished the game 3-for-3 at the plate with two RBI.
Hartford will take a day off before returning to action at the Rebel Spring Games on Thursday, March 20.
