SOUTHSIDE FIELD – Rochester batted around three times on Saturday afternoon to spark a doubleheader softball sweep of St. Lawrence University. The Yellowjackets won the opener, 16-0 and took the nightcap 10-0. Both games were shortened to five innings through the mercy rule.
 
With the sweep, Rochester improved its record to 5-3 overall, 4-0 in the Liberty League. St. Lawrence is 0-7 overall, 0-4 in the league. This was the second set of a home-and-home DH between the teams. Rochester swept in Canton on Thursday. SLU boarded a bus Saturday morning and drove down to play.
 
Emily Sharlach and Abbie Biggs threw complete game victories for Rochester. They each surrendered two hits.
 
Game One: The Yellowjackets capitalized on four Saint errors in the first inning and scored seven runs - all unearned. Hannah Keiper had three hits and scored once. Toni Anne Hahn, Allison Beckwith, and Alexis Pope scored three runs apiece. Pope reached on errors her first two times at bat, then doubled and singled. Hahn walked twice and singled. Beckwith was 2-3, including an RBI double. Keiper had three hits – two singles and a double. Sammi Re was 2-3 with a pair of runs scored.
 
Rochester sent 11 hitters to the plate in the first inning and 10 to the plate in the second inning. Jen Carson had a two-run single in the second. She stole second and scored on Marissa Russo's double to left.
 

Sharlach gave up a leadoff double to McKailey Lyndaaker in the first, retired eight straight, yieled a single to left by Lyndaker, and set down the last seven hitters to get her third win this season. She struck out nine and did not issue a walk. The loss went to Gaby Slater. She was relieved by Jacee Caseboldt who pitched the final 4.2 innings.
 
Game Two: The Yellowjackets broke up a two-inning pitchers' duel with four runs in the third and six more in the fourth. They capitalized on six walks and nine hits – two of those were home runs. Keiper hit a two-run home run to left field in the third to break a 0-0 tie.  Carson walked, stole second, and came home on the Keiper home run. With two outs, Pope walked. Hahn doubled her home – part of a five-RBI day for Hahn in the nightcap. Madi Turner doubled down the left field line to score Hahn.
 
In the fourth inning, nine batters came to the plate. Russo led off with a single and stole second. Three straight batters walked. The free pass to Keiper produced a fifth run. Pope single home Sammi Re for a 6-0 edge and Hahn clouted a grand slam over the left field fence to close the scoring at 10-0.
 
Biggs gave up two hits in the second – back-to-back hits by Meredith Rose and Tori Rotundo. She fanned Margo Hopper to end the inning. That started a run of nine straight set down. She walked Harper on four straight balls in the fifth with two down. She encouraged Kayla Minst to ground out to Hahn to end the game.
 
NOTES: Rochester travels to Alfred on Wednesday for a non-conference doubleheader. On Friday, it's back to Liberty League play. UR hosts Union on Friday afternoon and goes to Schenectady for the return set on Saturday. Ithaca swept RIT and Union swept Skidmore.