PITTSFORD, NY – Rochester ran its softball record to 12-4 with a doubleheader sweep of Nazareth College on Tuesday afternoon. The Yellowjackets scored nine runs in the last two innings to pull away for a 13-1 victory in game one. Rochester scored eight runs in the first three innings of the nightcap, leading the way to a 10-3 victory. Nazareth is 0-4.
 
Hannah Keiper was the big run producer in game one with six RBIs. She had three hits. Toni Anne Hahn knocked in a pair of runs. Seven players had RBIs in the victory.
 
In game two, Allison Beckwith hit two home runs – a two-run shot in the first inning to cap a 4-0 start, and a solo home run in the third as part of a three-run rally that increased the UR lead to 8-2.
 

Rochester returns to Liberty League play this weekend, playing a home-and-home set against RIT. The teams will play in Henrietta on Saturday afternoon (1 pm and 3 pm). UR is the host on Sunday at Southside Field with game times a duplicate of Saturday (1 pm and 3 pm).
 
Game One:
Rochester's first seven runs were all unearned. Nazareth committed four errors – one in the third that led to a four-run outburst, two in the sixth when the Yellowjackets increased the lead to 7-1 with three more runs. Nine players scored runs – two apiece by Keiper, Jen Carson, Madi Turner, and Hunter Gilbreath.
 
Keiper and Turner had three hits each. Hahn, Beckwith, and Carson had two hits. The Yellowjackets had 15 hits, five for extra bases.
 
Hannah Leahy picked up her third straight victory. She gave up six hits, one earned run, walked one and fanned four. Her best performance may have come in her busiest inning – the second, when Nazareth had a chance to break open a 1-0 game.
 
The Golden Flyers scored a run in the first the traditional way: a single, a sac bunt, and a two-out base hit to right center. In the second (UR managed one hit in its first two innings), Leahy retired the first two hitters on groundouts. She gave up a single. Another player reached on a throwing error and Naz's second hit of the inning loaded the bases. Leahy slipped a called strike three past the last hitter.
 
Rochester celebrated by scoring four unearned runs in the third. Turner walked. Gilbreath's sac bunt was thrown away putting two on. Marissa Russo bunted the runners over. Turner was thrown out at home on Sammi Re's grounder to short. Keiper doubled home Gilbreath and Re. Hahn doubled home Keiper, and Pope plated Hahn with a single up the middle.
 
In the sixth, Carson scored after Gilbreath's grounder was fumbled. Three batters later, Keiper reached on an error bringing home two more than and a 7-1 lead. Rochester broke it open in the seventh with six hits, including back to back to back doubles by Beckwith, Carson, and Turner.
 
Game Two:
Abbie Biggs picked up her third complete game victory and fourth win of the season (4-1). She allowed six hits, three runs (two earned), walked three and struck out four. Nazareth scored two runs in the bottom of the first (UR had four in the top of the inning). The Golden Flyers didn't score another run until the sixth, aided by a wild pitch and a pair of Rochester errors.
 
Offensively, Rochester collected 10 hits and nine RBIs. Erin Bevec started in left field (with Jen Carson moving behind the plate). Bevec was 2-4 with a run scored and two RBIs. Pope was 2-4 with a run scored and two ribbies as well. Beckwith drove in three runs – all with the long ball. Russo and Hahn had single runs batted in.
 
In the first, Hahn and Pope had RBI singles. Beckwith hit her first HR with Pope aboard, staking Biggs to a 4-0 lead. In the third inning, she hit a solo shot. Bevec's booted groundout brought home Carson, and Russo added an RBI single It was 8-2 after three.
 
Bevec hit a run-scoring single (unearned) in the fifth and Pope closed the scoring with another RBI single in the sixth inning.