Softball | 4/10/2014 7:34:00 PM

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ROCHESTER, NY– For the first time this season, the RIT softball team (1-11) played a double header at home, only to be swept by cross-town rival St. John Fisher (12-4) on a warm, windy Wednesday afternoon at Tiger Stadium. The Cardinals took game one by an 8-0 score, but saved some offense for game two winning 16-4. Both games went five innings.
 
Senior Brittany Griffin (Sterling, VA/Park View ) was 5-for-5 with a pair of doubles, while Sarah Wolcott (Cohocton, NY/Wayland-Cohocton) was 4-for-5 for the Tigers in the doubleheader.

The first game was all St. John Fisher, as starting pitcher Halie Schoff cruised through all five innings allowing just six hits and striking out three batters. Schoff got more than enough support from her offense as Lauren Owens rattled off two homers to drive in four runs on her own.
 
Griffin had the only extra base hit in the game for the Tigers as she hit a double in the fourth inning, going 2-for-2 in the contest. Freshman pitcher Sierra Valentine (Rochester, NY/Greece Athena) took the loss, pitching all five innings.
 
In game two RIT fell behind 3-0 to the Cardinals after the top half of the first, but added a run of their own on a Wolcott single that drove in Tori Blaker (Corning, NY/Corning-Painted Post West) from third. Just when it looked like the Tigers were going to keep things close, St. John Fisher erupted for eight unearned runs in the third to take a 12-1 lead, and they never looked back cruising to a 16-4 win.
 
Wolcott came through for the Tigers in the second game, tallying two hits and two RBI's. Griffin added three hits of her own driving in one run. Chelsea Shoemaker (Rochester, NY/Aquinas), and Emma Sarles (Orchard Park, NY/Orchard Park) both had two hit games as well in the RIT effort. Shoemaker's two hits were the first two of her collegiate career. Freshman Bethany Davis (Rochester, NY/Aquinas) had her first collegiate hit, a hard single in the fifth inning. Classmate Anna Mitchell (Marion, NY/Marion) made her collegiate debut.

RIT had 12 hits in game two, but left seven runners on base.
 
For the Cardinals, pitcher Megan Keib got the win pitching all five innings allowing four earned runs on 12 hits and striking out two batters, while Tiger starter Anna Valentine (Pittsford, NY/Pittsford Mendon) fell to 0-2 on the season after pitching three innings. She allowed just three earned runs, as the RIT defense struggled behind her, making six errors in the contest.
 
The strong winds benefited St. John Fisher who had six total home runs travel out of the yard between both games, accounting for 11 of their 24 runs scored. Megan Burns was phenomenal for the Cardinals, going 6-for-7 on the day and racking up five RBIs.
 
The Tigers are back in action on Saturday April 12, for a doubleheader at home against Liberty League foe Skidmore at 1 p.m.