LEESBURG, Fla. - The Saint Michael's College softball team closed a 12-game Spring Break trip to Florida by splitting Northeast-10 Conference foe Saint Anselm College during a non-league The Spring Games doubleheader on Friday at the Sleepy Hollow Sports Complex. The Purple Knights won a 7-2 decision in the first contest, their initial series victory since 2017, before losing the nightcap, 5-1.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (5-6-1), Saint Anselm (11-6)

DOUBLEHEADER FACTS

• Senior Jenna Devens (Parsippany, N.J./Parsippany) walked twice to break a tie with Casey Brooks '07 (61) for the program's walks record. Devens now has 63 bases on balls.
• Between the Purple Knights' second game on Thursday at Eckerd College and opener today, first-year Brooke Bishop (Florida, Mass./Drury) picked up hits in seven consecutive at bats.
• The Purple Knights defeated sophomore Sam Ryan, who entered the day 7-0 with a 2.09 earned run average, during the opener while holding senior Sam Wiberg, who was third in the nation with a .531 batting average, to a 1-for-7 showing in the twinbill.

GAME 1
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Junior Brooke Edgerly (Morley, Mich./Morley Stanwood), 2-for-4, 3 R, 1 BB, 1 3B, 1 SB
• Senior Jenna Devens (Parsippany, N.J./Parsippany), 1-for-2, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 2B, 1 SF
• First-year Brooke Bishop (Florida, Mass./Drury), 4-for-4, 2 RBI
• First-year Emma Nordahl (Holden, Mass./Saint Paul Diocesan Junior-Senior), 2-for-4, 1 R
• First-year Ella Nickerson (South Portland, Maine/South Portland), 1-for-3, 1 R, 1 SAC, 1 SB
• Junior CJ Davidson (Canyon Lake, Calif./Vista Murrieta), 7 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 3 K

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Stephanie Tardugno, 1-for-2, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 SB
• Senior Alyssa Wironen, 1-for-3, 2 RBI
• Sophomore Sam Ryan, 5.1 IP, 9 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, loss

THE ACTION

• Devens doubled home Edgerly and scored on Bishop's RBI single to make it 2-0 in the top of the first inning.
• Edgerly led off the third with a triple and came around on Devens' sac fly.
• Saint Anselm got on the board when Wironen's two-out, two-run single plated a pair of unearned runs, but the Hawks left two in scoring position to remain down 3-2.
• The Purple Knights countered with four runs on four hits in the sixth. Bishop legged out an infield RBI single and Davidson drew a bases-loaded walk in the frame.

GAME 2
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Davidson, 2-for-4, 1 RBI, 1 SB
• Nickerson, 2-for-3, 1 R, 1 BB
• First-year Maddy Booska (Burlington, Vt./Colchester), 0-for-1, 2 BB
• First-year Kate Parker (Quispamsis, New Brunswick/Kennebecasis Valley), 7 IP, 10 H, 5 R, 1 BB, 4 K

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Audrey Arsenault, 2-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 3 SB
• Sophomore Brooke Tardugno, 2-for-3, 2 R, 5 SB
• Sophomore Kendra Lee, 4 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K in relief, win

THE ACTION

• Brooke Tardugno stole home on the back end of a double steal in the top of the first inning before sophomore Jamie Calkins knocked an RBI single and senior Sam Wiberg added a sac fly in a two-run second.
• Saint Michael's put together sustained threats in the second, third and fifth innings, stranding a pair of runners both frames while benefiting from Davidson's RBI single in the third to cut the deficit to 3-1.
• Brooke Tardugno scored on Arsenault's infield single in the seventh before Stephanie Tardugno plated the final run on a sac fly.
• Nickerson and Davidson both singled in the home half for the Purple Knights, who were unable to bring the tying run to the plate before Lee induced a game-ending groundout.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• March 29 vs. Pace University, 12 p.m. doubleheader.
• The Setters received a vote toward this week's National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) national poll.