From Carnegie Mellon University Athletics

The Carnegie Mellon University softball team swept play on Monday, March 9 at The Spring Games in Clermont, Florida, scoring 20 runs on 26 hits in a 6-4 win against Mount St. Joseph College and a 14-7 win against Emmanuel College to move to 4-2 for the season.

In the first game of the day, sophomore Emily Song (Mount Arlington, N.J. / Roxbury) led off the bottom of the first inning with her first career homerun and doubled in the eventual game-winning run in the fourth inning of the Tartans' 6-4 win against Mount St. Joseph. Song finished the game with the two extra-base hits, the two RBIs and two runs scored.

Sophomores Scotty McGee (Huntington Beach, Calif. / Huntington Beach) and Megan Hu (Katy, Texas / Seven Lakes) and freshman Tessa Bruneau (Edgewater Park, N.J. / Holy Cross Prep) each collected two hits with Hu tripling in two runs in the bottom of the third to tie the score at 3-3. Freshman Emily Finger (Aurora, Ill. / Metea Valley) followed Hu's triple with her second double of the season to plate the fourth run of the game for the Tartans.

Sophomore Summer Faille (Thousand Oaks, Calif. / Westlake) singled with the bases loaded in the fifth inning to tack on a run before the Lions scored one in the top of the sixth to make it 6-4.

McGee recorded the final three outs in order ending the game with a strikeout to earn the win in 5.0 innings of relief work.

Game two of the day witnessed 15 hits by the Tartans with Finger going 3-for-4 at the plate with an RBI. Sophomore Audrey Pederson (Bedford, N.H. / Bedford) had two hits and an RBI while Song had two hits and two RBIs in the same inning.

The Tartans scored four runs in the top of the third with two outs to take a 4-1 lead. Pederson knocked in the first run with a single to center field. Faille then doubled in two runs while sophomore Gwen Delacruz (Laguna Nigel, Calif. / Aliso Niguel) tripled in a run.

The Saints answered in the third with six runs to hold a 7-4 advantage. The Tartans then broke the game open in the top of the fifth with eight runs on four hits and three errors by the Saints. Song led off the inning as a pinch hitter and singled to center. Sophomore Io Jette-Kouri (Pasadena, Calif. / Westridge) followed with a pinch-hit single up the middle and after an out, freshman Isabel Bermudez (Austin, Texas / Dripping Springs) walked as a pinch hitter.

With the bases loaded, McGee grounded to the shortstop but her throw was wide to the plate and two runs scored. Bruneau followed with a fielder's choice sacrifice bunt to the pitcher that resulted in another run scored when the throw to the plate was off the mark. Sophomore Audra Scheinman (Falls Church, Va. / George C. Marshall) singled down the left field line to plate two runners giving the lead back to the Tartans, 9-7.

The fifth inning continued as two others reached base before Song singled to center for the second time in the inning, scoring two. The final run of the inning came off an error off the bat of Delacruz.

McGee followed the Tartans offensive inning with three strikeouts to maintain the five-run lead. The Tartans added a run in each of the sixth and seventh innings for additional cushion before McGee ended a potential rally by the Saints with a strikeout with the bases loaded.

McGee earned her second win of the day going 4.1 innings with five strikeouts and two hits against.