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| Carlyn Vachow went 5-8 with three doubles, a home run and five RBI on Tuesday. |
In the first game, the Saints jumped out to the early lead, plating three runs in the top of the first inning. Kylee Knight led off the game with a double to left center and scored two batters later on a Panther error. Allie Courtwright accounted for the next two runs with a line-drive single to left plating Mylea Mann and Emma Reakes.
St. Lawrence added two more runs in the third inning on a pair of two-out hits. Abrianna
Schlickenmayer drove in the first run with a single down the left-field line and Courtwright followed with an RBI double to make it a 5-0 game.
Middlebury used the long ball in the bottom of the third to tie the score at 5-5. Carlyn Vachow ripped a three-run homer to left, scoring Jackie Stern, who was playing her 100th career game, and Emma Hamilton. Three batters later, Allison Quigley tied the game with a two-run shot to left center, scoring Siobhan O'Sullivan.
One inning later, the Panthers took the lead when Hamilton and Vachow each had RBI doubles to give the hosts a 7-5 lead.
The Saints used a home run to pull even (7-7) in the fifth when Reakes belted a two-run shot to left center.
Middlebury went back in front in the fifth when Ali Della Volpe laced a single to center field to score Ande Troutman for an 8-7 advantage.St. Lawrence threatened in the top of the sixth, putting two runners on with one out, but Panther pitcher Neve Stearns got out of inning with a pair of strikeouts.
The hosts added an insurance run in the sixth when Vachow scored on a Saint error to make it a 9-7 cushion.
Stearns pitched a scoreless seventh for her team-leading third save.
Vachow had a big game at the plate going 3-4 with a home run, four RBI and two runs scored, Hamilton went 2-3 with two runs and an RBI, while O'Sullivan also had two hits.
Irene Margiotta (3-2) tossed 1.1 innings of relief to pick up the win, while Quigley pitched the first four innings of the game, allowing five runs (three earned) on seven hits with two strikeouts.
Courtwright went 2-4 for the Saints and drove in four runs, while Mann, Reakes, Schlickenmayer and Dziekan also had two hits each.
Emma Gailey (6-7) suffered the loss after entering the game when the teams were tied at 5-5.
In game two, the guests again scored in the opening inning with the first run crossing the plate on a wild pitch. The Saints made it 3-0 with back-to-back singles Schlickenmayer and Courtwright.
The Panthers got one run back in the latter half of the inning when Stern touched home plate on a wild pitch, after leading off with a single.
St. Lawrence made it 4-1 in the second with a run-scoring single by Mann, while Middlebury countered with two runs in the last of the third inning. Vachow drilled a doubled into the gap in left to score Kati Daczkowski, while Vachow later scored on a ground out by O'Sullivan, making it a one-run game (4-3).
In the fifth, the Saints extended their lead to 5-3 on a hard single by Courtwright to score Mann.
In the bottom of the inning, the Panthers took advantage of a two-out error by Saints and claimed the lead. An infield miscue allowed Middlebury to trim the deficit to one, while Hamilton came through with a clutch two-run single to put the hosts in front for the first time in the second game (6-5).
Margiotta (4-2) retired the final six batters of the game for her second victory of the day. She gave up just two hits in three innings.
Vachow and Freyre each had two hits with one double, while Stern had a pair of singles.
For the Saints, Mann went 3-4 with two runs scored and an RBI, while Courtwright went 2-3 with two runs driven in.
Coutrwright (3-10) took the loss for St. Lawrence yielding all six runs (three earned) on 10 hits
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