CLERMONT, Fla. -- Alexa Bremer ended the game with a bases loaded, two-out RBI single to center in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift the College of St. Scholastica softball team to a 5-4 victory over Eastern Connecticut State University in its first game in Florida Sunday afternoon at the National Training Center.

In a 10-4 loss to the College of Saint Benedict (4-1) Sunday night, Eastern (1-6) gave up five unearned runs in the first inning on two infield fielding errors and a pair of RBI doubles.

St. Scholastica 5, Eastern Conn. 4 (8)

Each team started the eighth inning with a runner on second base after the teams were tied at two-all after seven innings. Eastern scored twice on a passed ball and Jessica Seymour's (Barkhamsted) two-out single in the top of the eighth, but the Saints countered with three runs in the bottom of the inning. Maggie Schley drove in the first with a single and Hannah Borgeson tied the game with a sacrifice fly to right with the bases loaded. A walk re-loaded the bases for Bremer, who drove a 3-1 pitch up the middle to end the game.

Eastern led 2-0 by scoring an unearned run in the third on a bunt single and stolen base by Alyssa Hancock (Waterford) and a throwing and infield error, and added a run in the fourth on a leadoff double by Samantha Rentz (Griswold) and singles by pinch hitter Kristyn Ryan (Barkhamsted) and Seymour.

St. Scholastica (5-6) tied the game in the fourth with two unearned runs on an inning-opening infield error, double by Schley, sacrifice fly by Kara Warren and RBI single by Rendi Johnson. Haeli Campbell (Goffstown, NH) replaced starting pitcher Samantha Valentine (Ridge, NY) in the fifth inning and got an inning-ending double play.

Making her pitching debut, Campbell (0-1) went the rest of the way. In a tie game, she walked two and gave up a hit but left the bases loaded in the sixth – thanks in part to Gina Georgetti's (Milford) defensive gem at first when she stabbed a hard shot over the bag -- and got three ground balls in the seventh as the teams headed to extra innings.

Eastern threatened to break the tie in the fifth, sixth and seventh, but stranded four. With two out and none on in the top of the seventh, consecutive singles by Samantha Bardos (Norwalk) and Georgetti put runners on the corners, but complete-game winner Chrisi Mizera (3-2) got a swinging strikeout to keep the game tied.

The Warriors commited two baserunning blunders in the game, getting doubled up on an infield fly ball in the second and running into a fielder's choice after getting the leadoff batter aboard in the sixth.

Bardos, Danielle Robillard (Swansea, MA) and Seymour each had two hits for Eastern.

College of Saint Benedict 10, Eastern Conn. 4

As it did against St. Scholastic, Eastern surrendered an early 2-0 lead. After walking four in Eastern's two-run first inning, winning pitcher Kiela DeVlaeminck (2-1) settled down and was backed by a ten-hit attack which included three doubles and a triple.

DeVlaeminck did not walk another batter after the first inning and her teammates countered with five runs in the bottom of the first and three more in the third to amass an 8-2 lead after three.

The Blazers had three hits (two doubles) in the first inning but two infield errors extended the inning and made all five runs unearned against Eastern starter Emily Komornik (Shelton), now 0-2. 

Robillard had two more hits against Saint Benedict and cleanup hitter Ryan reached three times with two singles and a walk and drove in a run.

Eastern faces MIT and Williams College Monday, beginning at 11 a.m.