SOUTHSIDE FIELD – Rochester ran its softball winning streak to eight games after earned a pair of victories over RIT, 10-0, and 9-1, on Friday afternoon. The Yellowjackets are 14-4 overall, 10-0 in the Liberty League.
 
RIT is 3-11 overall, 0-8 in the Liberty League. The second day of the home-and-home DH series is Saturday at 1 pm on RIT's field.
 
The Yellowjackets burst ahead to a 9-0 lead in the second inning of the operner. They scored nine runs on eight hits. In game two, UR broke it open later. The Yellowjackets led 1-0 after one, 4-0 through four. In the bottom of the sixth, they scored five runs, four unearned, to win another on the mercy rule.
 
Game One:
Alexis Pope had three hits and three RBIs. Marissa Russo, Jen Carson, and Hunter Gilbreath had two hits apiece. Tony Anne Hahn drove in two runs as did Gilbreath. This was part of a 12-hit attack.
 
Emily Sharlach got the start for the Yellowjackets. In two innings, she allowed one hit and one walk. Rochester's big second inning brought on Abbie Biggs to start the third. Biggs gave up three hits and a walk. She fanned three to get her fifth win of the season.

 
Torie Adler pitched the first two innings for RIT. She was relieved by Melissa Gould to begin the third inning. Gould maneuvered through the third, but gave up a walk, and RBI double by Alizah Ayon, and a single to Pope. Adler replaced her and finished the game.
 
Six straight batters reached base for Rochester in the second. Gilbreath hit a two-run single to make if 4-0, then came around on a double by Russo and a single by Sammi Re. Later in the inning, Pope closed the scoring with a three-run HR to left field.
 
The Tigers had four hits. In the fourth, Raquel Estrada walked. Natalie Barrera doubled to center. Estrada was thrown out at home on a relay from Re to Hahn to Gilbreath and back to Pope who made the tag. Alexis Smith singled, but Biggs recovered, striking out Brooke Seifert and getting Brianna Bilich on a flyout to Carson in left.
 
Game Two:
Rochester nibbled for a run in the first. Russo singled and took second when the ball got away. Re singled her home. In the fourth, the Yellowjackets played long ball. Keiper hit a long home run over the left field fence. Adler, who went the distance in game two, retired Hahn on a flyout to center and she fanned Ayon. Pope singled and Carson hit a high fly ball just over the left field fence by the foul pole for a 4-0 lead.
 
Those came in handy. Hannah Leahy, who earned the win for Rochester (her fourth straight), retired 11 in a row before the Tigers created a run to get within 4-1. With one down Bilich singled to right. Seifert singled her to second and a wild pitch moved both women up one base. Smith hit a grounder to Madi Turner at second base, scoring Bilich. Leahy fanned Katelyn Koester (thrown out at first base) to end the inning. She set down the top of the order in order in the sixth.
 
Keiper and Hahn singled to start the UR sixth. Alexis Klee ran for Keiper at first base. Ayon walked, loading the bases. Loren Castilloux entered to run for Ayon at first. Pope grounded out, scoring Klee and moving the other two runners to second and third. Carson's infield grounder forced a bad throw that pulled the fielder off first base. Hahn scored (6-1).
 
After a flyout by Turner, Allison Beckwith drew a pinch-hit walk to load the bases. Russo singled to drive in two and Re's single scored Beckwith with the run that produced the eight-run difference.
 
Leahy allowed three hits, one earned run, and struck out four in six innings for the complete game victory. She produced 11 ground ball outs, three right back to her. Adler went the distance for RIT (5.2 innings). She yielded 10 hits, nine runs (five earned), walked three, and struck out two.