The University of Rochester squeezed out a one-run victory in the first game, then won a slugfest in the second game to sweep a softball doubleheader from St. Lawrence University.
 
Rochester won the opener, 2-1, and took the nitecap, 8-4, at Southside Field. The wins give the Yellowjackets a three-game winning streak. UR split with Ithaca on Saturday. The Yellowjackets are 11-14 overall, 4-4 in the Liberty League.
 
St. Lawrence was coming off at sweep at Skidmore College on Saturday (10-8 and 3-1). The Saints are now 10-12 overall, 2-4 in the Liberty League.
 
Elizabeth Bourne pitched a complete game victory in the opener. She earned the save in game two, throwing three innings of two-hit relief. Hannah Leahy earned the game two win. She pitched through the first four innings.
 
Gianna Melillo drove in four runs in the second game with a two-run home run in the first inning and a two-run double to highlight the third. Alexis Pope hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the sixth to extend a 5-4 Rochester lead to 8-4.
 
For St. Lawrence, Taylor Armijo was 2-4 in the opener, 2-3 in game two. She scored one run. Mylea Mann had two hits in game two and one in the opener. The Saints scored one unearned run in the fifth inning of game one, but left the bases loaded.
 

Game One:
Rochester jumped ahead 2-0 at the start. Harleigh Kaczegowicz tripled. Marissa Russo walked and stole second. Lydia Petricca hit a sac fly to score Kaczegowicz. Russo took third, then scored when Melillo flied to right.
 
UR left two aboard in the second against McKailey Lyndaker. Madison Mitchell, who opened the game as the designated player, came on to pitch in the third. She kept the Saints in it, allowing a total of three baserunners – two hits and a walk.
 
SLU stranded three over the first two innings. Bourne settled in, retiring seven in a row art one point. In the seventh, Alexandra Barter singled. Mitchell bunted. Kaczegowicz threw the ball past Pope at first base and into right field. When it was bobbled there, pinchrunner Meryl Adams moved to third. Bourne got a strikeout, but Deanna Sullivan singled to right, scoring Adams. Armijo's first single loaded the bases. Elle Gray lined out to Pope and Bourne ended the threat by fanning Skylar Hein.

Those two outs started another seven straight putouts. With two down in the seventh, Sullivan and Armijo singled before Gray grounded out to end it.
 
Bourne allowed eight hits, one unearned run, and fanned seven (no walks) to earn her fifth win. For SLU, Lydaker gave up three hits in two innings, and two earned runs. She walked one. Mitchell allowed two hits in four innings, no runs, walked one, and struck out five.
 
Game Two:
This one went back and fourth. Rochester scored two on a two-run HR by Melillo in the first. Caroline Young relieved Mitchell I the first after the home run by Melillo, a single by Pope, and a walk to Leahy. She stranded five runners over the next three innings until the Yellowjackets rallied.
 
The Saint bats came alive in the middle innings. SLU had a great chance in the fist, getting the first three runners aboard by two errors (one when a sac bunt was thrown away), and a walk. Leahy induced a comebacker for a 1-2-3 double play that forced Sullivan at home. Three pitches later, she got Angelina Carney on a groundout to third
 
SLU took the lead with three runs in the fourth, helped by Rochester's fourth error of the game. With one down, Hein walked and Meryl Adams ran for her. Carney bunted down the third base line. The throw to second base for a force was dropped, putting two aboard. Carolyn Holran pinch-ran for Carney.  The Saints got three straight singles with Alexandra Barter, Mitchell, and Caitlin Syphurs all getting RBIs. The game was tied 2-2 with the bases loaded. Syphurs flied to centerfield. It was dropped by Russo. She recovered in time to force Mitchell at second base. She held up when the ball was first hit. Mann scored the go-ahead run. Sullivan's comebacker ended the inning.
 
In the Rochester fourth, a single and a walk put two aboard. After a popout by Kaczegowicz, Russo bunted the runners over. Petricca's single through the right side scored Anne Marie Cortes to tie it. Young left, replaced by Allie Courtwright. Melillo greeted her with a double down the left field line for two RBIs and a 5-3 lead.
 
Leahy struggled in the fifth, giving up three singles as the Saints played station-to-station. Bourne relieved and issued just her seventh walk of the season. It forced home Armijo, pulling SLU within 5-4. Mann struck out, Barter's infield grounder to Pope forced Gray at the plate, and Mitchell rolled out to short.
 
Russo was hit by a pitch to start the sixth. Petricca singled. After Melillo popped out, Pope hit her first home run of the season to plate three runs that provided a cushion.
 
The win was Leahy's sixth and second in a row. She allowed six hits, four runs (three earned), and walked two with no strikeouts. In three innings, Bourne yielded two hits, one walk, and fanned two.
 
Mitchell pitched the opening 0.2 innings for the Saints She allowed three hits, two earned runs, and walked one. Caroline Young relieved, allowing three hits, three earned runs, and one walk. Courtwright went 1.2 IP with three hits, three earned runs, and two walks.  Lyndaker struck out one in 0.2 innings.