EMMITSBURG, Md. – Saint Francis head softball coach Jennifer Patrick-Swift became the program's all-time leader in wins with the Red Flash's 8-0 victory in game one of the team's NEC doubleheader at Mount St. Mary's on Saturday. That gave her 94 career victories, surpassing Rudy "Skip" Galayda's 93 wins from 1994-98. The Flash also won game two, 8-0, in five innings.

The Flash (22-8) got off to a fast start in game one as Taylor Parsons (Bellefonte, Pa./Bald Eagle) homered deep to right field to lead off the game. The blast was her first of the season. The second inning got off to the same start. Kate Blattenberger (Martinsburg, Pa./Central) went opposite field to right to lead off the inning for her first home run of the season to make it 2-0.

Walks to Jordan Seneca (New Kensington, Pa./Plum) and Taylor Parsons (Bellefonte, Pa./Bald Eagle) and a hit-by-pitch to Lindsey Reid (Bear, Del./Caravel Academy) loaded the bases with one out. Alexis Bower (Cogan Station, Pa./Williamsport Area) was hit by a pitch to force in the Flash's third run, and Madison Cabell (Ivor, Va./Southampton) doubled off the center field fence to score two more runs to make it 5-0. Bower beat the throw to the plate on Kindra Witthus (Hudson, Wis./Hudson)' grounder to short to make it 6-0, and Cabell rounded out the inning by tagging and scoring on Nicole Paiotti (Oakland, N.J./Indian Hills)'s sacrifice fly. After 1.5 innings, the Flash had a 7-0 advantage.

That was more than enough for Flash starter Blaire Lauthers (Doylesburg, Pa./Fannett-Metal). She entered the day second in the NCAA with a 0.86 earned run average, and her five scoreless innings lowered it to 0.77. She scattered five hits, including four singles, over the five innings of work. She didn't allow multiple hits in an inning until the fifth.

Blattenberger pushed the game into mercy rule territory with an RBI single in the fourth. She finished 2-for-3 with two RBIs. Bower also had two hits and a walk.

In game two, Ethel Santai (Pine Grove, Pa./Pine Grove Area) didn't allow a hit until the fourth inning when the Flash had already built a 4-0 lead. Witthus tripled to right center in the top of the first to chase home both Parsons and Bower. Witthus made it 3-0 when she scored on a wild pitch. In the second inning, Reid made it 4-0 when she completed the front end of a first-and-third double steal.

The Mount threatened in the bottom of the fourth inning with an infield single and a hit batsman with no outs, but a fielder's choice from Seneca to Cabell kept the runners at first and second with one out. A runner's interference gave the Flash two outs, and an infield single turned into a great play by Reid nailing a runner heading for the plate and forcing her into a rundown to end the frame.

The Flash put game two into the mercy rule with a four-run fifth inning. Seneca made it 5-0 when she scored on a bases-loaded walk, and Maggie Creciun (Norristown, Pa./Norristown) brought home two more runs on a bloop single to center. A throwing error on the play allowed the third run to score, making it 8-0 and ending the afternoon early after the Flash recorded three outs in the bottom of the fifth.

Creciun and Bower each had two hits in the win. Santai finished with the complete-game shutout, allowing just two hits while striking out three. She moves to 7-1 for the season.

Saint Francis continues its NEC road trip tomorrow at Fairleigh Dickinson for a doubleheader. First pitch is set for 2 p.m.