MELBOURNE, Fla. - After splitting its first two games of the season on opening day, Eastern Softball recorded a two-game sweep of day two of their Spring Break trip. The Eagles used a four-run fifth inning to beat Grove 7-2 in the opener, before exploding for seven runs in the sixth frame in an eventual 8-2 triumph over Rose-Hulman in game two.

Tori Hook and Susana Perez each finished 2-for-3 with a run scored in the opener against Grove City, while Maeve Colligan drove in a pair of runs in the win. Amanda Bruno finished with a hit and an RBI. First-year catcher Dakota Owen recorded a pinch hit single, while fellow first-year Ainsley O'Donnell also drove in a run.

Jania Long (2-0) picked up her second win of the young season, allowing five hits and two runs while striking out two on 61 pitches.

Eastern scored single runs in each the first, second, and third frames to build a 3-1 lead. In the first inning, after a Sophia Vento walk and a Hook single, Colligan scored Vento on a sacrifice fly to put the Eagles ahead 1-0. In the second, Bruno plated Jania Long on an RBI single up the middle, and in the third, Long helped her own cause with a sacrifice fly to center field.

Grove City answered with an RBI double in the fourth, cutting the Eastern lead to 3-2, but the Eagles put the game away with four runs in the fifth. Back-to-back doubles from Hook and Colligan scored Eastern's fourth run, before pinch runner Rachel Thomas scored on a wild pitch to make it 5-2. O'Donnell followed with an RBI groundout to second base, and Bryn Clifford capped off the Eastern scoring on another Grove City wild pitch.

Clifford and Hailey Krichten shut it down the rest of the way. The dup combined to throw a scoreless final three innings, striking out one and now allowing a single Grove City baserunner.

Game two against Rose-Hulman began as a pitchers' duel as neither team recorded a single baserunner in the first three innings. Eastern struck first on an O'Donnell triple in the top of the fourth, but the Eagles left her stranded. In the sixth, however, Eastern found its offense.

Junior Sophie Rollins began the rally with a double to left field, before Colligan reached on a Rose-Hulman fielding error. O'Donnell drove home the Eagles' first run on an RBI single to right field, scoring Rollins. Sophomore Mackenzie Laub, the reigning MAC Commonwealth Rookie of the Year, increased Eastern's advantage to 3-0 on a two-run single to center, and Owen followed with an RBI single of her own.

Fellow sophomore Sydney Ostolaza, who has made a habit of hitting the ball well in Florida, roped a two-run triple right field later in the inning, and junior Kacie Noonan capped off the scoring with an RBI single to right field to make it a 7-0 Eastern lead.

Rose-Hulman got two runs back in the bottom of the sixth, but Eastern added an insurance run in the seventh. First-year outfielder Sadie Supplee hit her first collegiate double, and Ostolaza plated with her an RBI single to center to help secure Eastern's third win.

The Eagles finished with 10 hits in the contest, four for extra bases. Ostolaza finished the day 2-for-2 with one scored and three RBI. In Eastern's first four games, the Landing, N.J. is hitting .444 with four hits, one double, one triple, and five RBIs. Ostolaza currently leads the team in runs batted in and is tied for the team lead in hits. O'Donnell also finished with a pair of hits and a run scored in four at-bats, while Laub, Owen, Supplee, Noonan, and Rollins each added one hit apiece.

First-year pitcher Danika Barthol pitched a scoreless three innings in her second start, striking out four and not allowing any baserunners on 37 pitches. Sophomore Bryn Clifford (1-0)  after picking up a save yesterday, notched her first win, allowing three hits and two runs with one strikeout in three innings of work. Madisyn Saposnek closed the game out with a scoreless seventh.

Eastern (3-1) returns to action tomorrow with a doubleheader against the University of Dubuque. First pitch for game one is scheduled for 1:30 pm.