SAINT PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Saint Michael's College softball team split five-inning decisions with Eckerd College on Thursday at the Turley Athletic Complex, taking the nightcap, 12-4, after losing the opener, 11-3.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (4-5-1), Eckerd (19-11)

DOUBLEHEADER FACTS

• Senior Jenna Devens (Parsippany, N.J./Parsippany) tied Casey Brooks' '07 program record for career walks (61) while extending her school marks for home runs (22) and RBI (90) and pushing her career hit total to 150, a mark previously reached by only three other Purple Knights.
• Junior Isabelle Priest (Saint Johnsbury, Vt./Lyndon Institute) picked up her first college hit in the opener during her second career at bat.
• Only 33 games into her college career, sophomore Maddy Vaughn (Saratoga Springs, N.Y./Saratoga Springs) has already been hit by 11 pitches, tying for third in program history and within three of Kelly Rose Losi's '11 career mark (14).
• The teams met for the first time.

GAME 1
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Jenna Devens (Parsippany, N.J./Parsippany), 1-for-3, 1 RBI; 2.1 IP, 8 H, 6 R, loss
• Junior CJ Davidson (Canyon Lake, Calif./Vista Murrieta), 1-for-2, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 HR
• Junior Isabelle Priest (Saint Johnsbury, Vt./Lyndon Institute), 1-for-2
• Sophomore Abreanna Smith (Whitewright, Texas/Whitewright), 2-for-2, 2 R, 1 2B

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Addisan Langston, 2-for-3, 1 R, 3 RBI, 1 2B
• Junior Ella Coiner, 3-for-3, 2 R, 2 RBI, 2 2B, 1 SB
• Sophomore Lex Difato, 2-for-4, 2 R, 1 RBI, 3 SB
• Sophomore Hannah Taylor, 2-for-3, 2 R, 1 RBI
• First-year Molly Scott, 2-for-3, 2 RBI, 2 2B
• First-year Julia Heter, 1-for-2, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 2B; 5 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 5 K

THE ACTION

• The Tritons scored three runs on three run-scoring hits in the first inning before a pair of RBI hits with two out in the second made it 5-0.
• Devens' RBI single got her team on the board with two down in the third.
• Scott knocked RBI doubles in both the third and fourth innings, with Langston adding a two-run double in a four-run fourth.
• Davidson's two-out, two-run homer to left in the fifth cut the deficit before Difato's infield single scored the game's final run in the home half.

GAME 2
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Devens, 1-for-3, 2 R, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 HR
• Smith, 2-for-3, 1 RBI, 1 SB
• Junior Brooke Edgerly (Morley, Mich./Morley Stanwood), 1-for-3, 2 R, 1 HP
• Sophomore Maddy Vaughn (Saratoga Springs, N.Y./Saratoga Springs), 1-for-2, 2 R, 1 BB, 1 HP
• First-year Brooke Bishop (Florida, Mass./Drury), 3-for-3, 2 R, 5 RBI, 1 BB, 1 2B, 1 HR
• First-year Emma Nordahl (Holden, Mass./Saint Paul Diocesan Junior-Senior), 1-for-3, 1 R, 1 RBI
• First-year Sophia Underfer (Franklin Lakes, N.J./Indian Hills), 1-for-2, 2 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 SB
• First-year Kate Parker (Quispamsis, New Brunswick/Kennebecasis Valley), 5 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 2 K

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Langston, 1-for-3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 HR
• Scott, 1-for-1, 2 R, 1 BB
• Sophomore Mia Hernandez, 1-for-2, 2 RBI, 1 SB
• Sophomore Reese Founds, 0.1 IP, 2 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 0 K in relief, loss

THE ACTION

• Saint Michael's scored a two-out run in each of the first two innings, on Bishop's infield RBI single and Davidson's bases-loaded walk.
• Eckerd got a pair of two-out runs back in the second, with Hernandez's RBI single tying the game.
• The Purple Knights scored seven runs on five hits in the third, with Nordahl, Smith and Underfer knocking RBI singles before four unearned runs came around with two down, including three on Bishop's double.
• Langston swatted a solo homer in the home half before Hernandez's groundout plated Scott in the fourth to make it 9-5.
• With two out in the fifth, Devens drilled a two-run home run to straightaway center field before Bishop socked a solo shot to the same spot as the next batter.
• Parker set the Tritons down 1-2-3 in the home half to finish off the mercy-rule victory.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Friday vs. Saint Anselm College, 12:15 p.m. doubleheader in Leesburg, Fla.