AUBURNDALE, Fla. -- Salve Regina softball put together a two-game sweep on Thursday, having won three of their last four games with victories against Oswego State and SUNY New Paltz.

Lakers 6, Seahawks 7

The Seahawks and Lakers battled through nearly four innings of scoreless softball, with just four hits going into the bottom of the fourth. Emily Lane (Tinton Falls, N.J.) led off the inning by belting a double to left field, and Gabriella Messier (Berkley, Mass.) singled to get the Seahawks on the board with a 1-0 lead. The Lakers immediately answered in the fifth with four runs, including a three-run shot to gain what seemed like a comfortable 4-1 lead.

The Seahawks entered the bottom of the seventh trailing by three runs. After an Alex Kelly (East Meadow, N.Y.) single and a Christina Braid (Franklin Lakes, N.J.) walk, Kylie Lanteri (Berlin, Conn.) came up with a huge two-RBI triple to bring the Seahawks within one run with the game-tying run 60 feet away from home. Lane grounded out to second to get Lanteri across and tie the game at 4-4. The game would move into extra innings with the international tiebreaker in place, where a runner starts on second base to start the inning.

In the top-half of the eighth, the Lakers added two more runs on back-to-back doubles to make it 6-4, but Alex Kelly came up with three massive outs, including a strikeout, to strand a runner on second base to propel Salve into the bottom frame chasing two runs. A lead off hit gave Salve runners on second and third with nobody out with the tying run at the plate. Jacey Cosciello (Seymour, Conn.) and Skylar Wicklund (Riverhead, N.Y.), who got the win on the hill, put together back-to-back infield singles to tie the game at 6-6, and Emily Lane's third hit got the Seahawks the win on a walk-off single into left field.

Despite trailing twice in crunch time, the Seahawks dug deep to get a victory in a hard-fought, character revealing game against Oswego State… and that was just game one. 

Seahawks 5, Hawks 2

Game two of the day came against the Hawks of SUNY New Paltz, a matchup dominated by Sam Franceschi (East Haven, Conn.) who had two doubles and two RBIs. Salve entered the sixth inning with a 2-1 lead and posted three runs to salt the game away, never trailing in the 5-2 Seahawks win over the Hawks.

The Seahawks offense was led by Franceschi and Messier who went a combined five-for-seven to guide the Seahawks to victory, one that felt very comfortable after the walk-off prior. Sophie Gendron (Oxford, Conn.) got the win on the hill, allowing two runs across seven innings and striking out two.

The Seahawks have suffered several narrow losses thus far this year, but their desire to win has shown through every game thus far, win or loss. In the young season, the Seahawks have risen to 3-7 and have just one more doubleheader Friday versus Wisconsin-Stout and Hope College before heading back to the Ocean State.