CLERMONT, Fla. -- The Elizabethtown College softball team produced 26 runs over 10 innings on Thursday as they run-ruled both Chatham and Norwich to go 2-0 on the day to improve to 4-2 at THE Spring Games. The Blue Jays won game one over the Cougars handily, 17-0, before shutting out the Cadets 9-0. Lily Baldwin won her first career game in game one and Gianna Anzideo improved to 2-0 in game two.

GAME 1: ELIZABETHTOWN 17, CHATHAM 0 (F/5)
Morgan Carr, Emily Bittner, and Lily Baldwin established a quick 3-0 lead for the Jays in the top of the first as they got ahead of Chatham from the start.

Bittner and Baldwin added RBIs in the third inning to make it 5-0. Izzy Akelaitis doubled to right field to bring home two runs. Brooke Capozzoli and Brooke Huczko scored on the sophomore's extra base hit. 

In the fourth, Haley Nedo had a pinch hit RBI single up the middle. Then, with two runners on, Baldwin knocked her first career home run that bounced off the top of the left center fence and bounced over, a three-run shot, to give her five RBIs in the game.

Aubrey Buckmaster took over after three innings and threw the last two. Both first-year pitchers had two strikeouts each. Buckmaster struck out the first batter she faced and also collected her first hit and RBI in the Jays' six-run fifth inning. 

Maddie Reever was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to bring in a run. Lauren Leshak and Lexi O'Brien, both in to pinch hit, drew bases loaded walks. Then, Buckmaster lofted a ball over first base for a two-run single. Kaylee Whiteford, also in to pinch hit, brought in Etown's final run of the game.

Buckmaster closed out the game in the bottom of the fifth. Carr was a team-best 3-for-3 in the opening win of the day.

GAME 2: ELIZABETHTOWN 9, NORWICH 0 (F/5)
Elizabethtown carried that momentum into the second game of the day, scoring in each of the four innings they were up to bat.

Hannah Long scored on Jess Dunn's sac fly to left. Long was able to avoid the tag on the play with the throw home to make it 1-0.

Maddie Reever scored on Sydney Harper's RBI hit up the middle to make it 2-0 in the second.

Dunn and Morgan Carr scored easily after a throw got away off Brooke Huczko's bunt. The senior made it around to third on the play and later scored on Emily Bittner's ground out to short. The Jays led 5-0 through three innings.

Bittner knocked in two more runs in the fourth to put Etown on the verge of the eight-run rule. Reever would help the cause with her RBI single to left field. Huczko scored and Bittner came home as well. The throw came in the home plate and while the catcher initially had it, the ball was jarred loose on the tag and Bittner was safe to make it 9-0.

Anzideo got a pop up and two foul outs to left and short to end the game in five innings, her second win of the season. The senior only allowed two hits in her second straight complete game outing.

The Blue Jays run ruled two straight for the first time since 2018 when they swept Drew at The Nest by scores of 8-0 and 9-1 in five innings.

Elizabethtown plays Wentworth and Clark tomorrow in their final two games of their Florida trip.