COLCHESTER, Vt. - Three Saint Michael's College softball pitchers combined to blank Castleton University, 2-0 and 9-0 in five innings, during the Purple Knights' home opener on Tuesday at Doc Jacobs Field. First-year Jamie Hearn (Charlotte, N.C./Charlotte Country Day School) tossed her fourth shutout in the nightcap.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (9-11), Castleton (4-8)

DOUBLEHEADER FACTS

• Hearn's four shutouts are good for fourth in a season in program history, short only of the 11 Meggan (Roberge) Dulude '07 had in 2005 and 2007, and the rookie-record seven she tossed in 2004. Hearn has yielded three runs in her last six starts, with three shutouts, and is tied for fourth in school annals with Megan O'Connor '09 in career shutouts.
• The Purple Knights' five shutouts this season are their most since firing a school-record 14 in 2007.
• Saint Michael's improved to 7-3 in the all-time series, hosting Castleton for the first time since 1998.

GAME 1
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Hannah Arruda (Dartmouth, Mass./Dartmouth), 1-for-2, 1 RBI, 1 BB
• Senior Hope Hiscock (Schenectady, N.Y./Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons School), 2-for-3, 1 RBI, 1 2B
• First-year CJ Davidson (Canyon Lake, Calif./Vista Murrieta), 1-for-3, 1 R
• Sophomore Jenna Devens (Parsippany, N.J./Parsippany), 4 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 2 K
• Sophomore Kelleigh Simpson (West Burke, Vt./Lyndon Institute), 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K in relief, win

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Graduate student Hannah Mosher, 1-for-3, 1 3B
• First-year Samera Rideout, 1-for-3, 1 2B
• Senior Olivia Joy, 5.2 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, loss

THE ACTION

• Mosher tripled with one down in the first inning before Devens induced back-to-back fly balls to end the threat, and Castleton didn't send another runner past second base until the seventh inning.
• Devens singled for her team's first hit with one out in the fourth but moved no further.
• The teams traded leaving a runner at second in each end of the fifth inning.
• Davidson led off the sixth with a blooper off the right-field line, and junior Meghan Connor (Saint Albans, Vt./BFA-Saint Albans/Endicott) singled to right with two down, putting runners at the corners. Arruda followed by driving a full-count single through the left side to plate the eventual winning run. Hiscock ripped an RBI double down the line in left to score an insurance run.
• Rideout doubled with one out in the seventh, but Simpson struck out the next batter looking before getting the final Spartan to pop out to Devens at first base.

GAME 2
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Connor, 2-for-3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 2B
• Davidson, 1-for-3, 1 RBI, 1 SF
• Devens, 2-for-3, 1 R
• Hearn, 3-for-3, 2 R, 1 RBI; 5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 4 K
• Hiscock, 1-for-2, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 3B
• Senior Sadie Pratt (Dighton, Mass./Dighton-Rehoboth Regional), 1-for-2, 2 R, 1 BB
• Senior Haley Waghorn (Saratoga Springs, N.Y./Saratoga Springs), 2-for-3, 2 R, 1 RBI, 1 2B
• Sophomore Kaylee Morey (Stonington, Maine/Deer Isle-Stonington), 2-for-3, 2 RBI, 2 2B

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Mosher, 1-for-2
• Rideout, 0-for-1, 1 BB
• First-year Alexandra Brouillette, 1.1 IP, 8 H, 6 R, loss

THE ACTION

• The Purple Knights scored five runs on six hits in the first inning and never looked back, as Connor knocked an RBI double before four runs came home with two down, on Hiscock's two-run triple, a Waghorn RBI double, and Hearn's RBI single.
• Pratt scored on a miscue in the second before Davidson made it 7-0 with a third-inning sac fly.
• After retiring the first nine Spartans, Hearn yielded her only hit leading off the fourth, Mosher's clean single to center field.
• Morey cracked a two-out, two-run double to the fence in left in the home half of the fourth.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Thursday vs. Franklin Pierce University, 3 p.m. doubleheader.