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CLERMONT, Fla. – The St. Scholastica softball team came from behind to beat Fredonia State University (N.Y.) 4-3 in the morning and then used a big inning to defeat Salve Regina University (R.I.) 9-6 in the afternoon to improve to 7-1 on its spring trip.

The Saints began the day with solid 4-3 win over Fredonia State. CSS fell behind by three runs early, but would come back with three runs in the bottom of the third. Shauney Moen (Oak Grove, Minn./St. Francis HS) and Tiff Hudack (Ashland, Wis./Ashland HS) had RBIs in the inning and Moen would score on a Blue Devil error.

It remained knotted up until the bottom of the sixth when Theresa Tauer (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata HS) led off the inning with a home run to make it 4-3. That proved to be the game winner as Jordan Spiering (Mounds View, Minn./Irondale HS) won her third game in Florida.

Spiering struck out four to improve to 4-1 this season. Tauer had a pair of hits to lead the Saints offensively. The Blue Devils dropped to 6-3 with the defeat.

In the second game, the Saints used a seven-run top of the fifth on their way to a 9-6 victory over Salve Regina.

The Saints got on the board first with a RBI single by Tauer and a RBI double by Bonnie Kowalczyk (Menomonee Falls, Wis./Menomonee Falls HS) in the top of the first. However, the Seahawks plated three runs in the bottom of the frame to take a 3-2 lead.

After Salve Regina made it 4-2 in the bottom of the fourth, the Saints offense exploded in the top of the fifth.

The first five CSS batters to come to the plate reached base. After four runs came in on either singles for fielder's choices, Hudack broke it open with a bases clearing three-run double to extend the lead to 9-4.

The Seahawks put a scare into the Saints in the bottom of the seventh, scoring two in the inning, but that is all they could manage as the Saints won again 9-6.

Darcy Roach (East Grand Forks, Minn./Sacred Heart HS) earned her third win of the season, not striking out a batter for the first time this season. Kali Carlson (Duluth, Minn/Duluth Central HS) and Kowalczyk both went 3-for-4 at the plate. The Seahawks fall to 2-5 with the loss.

The Saints (8-4) will conclude play in Florida tomorrow when they play Babson College (Mass.) and William Paterson University (N.J.) in the morning.