CLERMONT, Fla. -- Sophomore righty Alexis Michon (Montville) threw the 40th no-hitter in Eastern Connecticut State University softball history with 14 strikeouts to lift the No. 6 nationally-ranked Warriors to a 7-0 win over SUNY Fredonia in the first of two victories at Legends Field Monday.
 

In the second game Monday, senior righty Morgan Bolduk (Vernon) won her first game in nearly three years with 3 2/3 innings of hitless relief, senior third baseman Julia SanGiovanni (East Haven) recorded her 100th career hit in the first inning and first-year outfielder Sophia Vilchez (Brampton, ON) had a hit in her first at-bat in a 4-1 victory over the College of St. Scholastica.

A first-year transfer from Plymouth State University -- where she was last year's Little East Conference Rookie-of-the-Year -- Michon (4-1) allowed only four baserunners (three walks and a hit-by-pitch) and allowed only one ball out of the infield. She got all three outs on strikeouts twice and also fanned two batters four times in an inning. Only two runners advanced into scoring position.

 

SanGiovanni denied Fredonia (1-7) on its only two chances for a hit when she snared line drives for the first and last outs of the fourth. SanGiovanni made a stab to her right for the first out and timed her leap perfectly to collect a soft line drive to end the inning.

Eastern (6-2) broke through against Fredonia junior starter Emily Chelius with four runs when the totalled four of its eight hits in the game. Five consecutive batters reached safely with one out, with No. 9 hitter Taylor Darby (South Windsor) clearing the bases with a triple to right-center that scored junior Alyssa Vilchez (Brampton, ON), senior catcher Carolyn Biel (Wallingford) and Michon. Vilchez and Biel had singled and Michon had walked to load the bases.

Against Fredonia, senior All-America first baseman Brooke Matyasovsky (Orange) drove in two of the final three runs with a single in the fifth and double in the seventh. Senior All-America leadoff hitter Cassie Woods (Mystic) reached in all four of her plate appearances and scored ahead of Matyasovsky's two hits. Woods singled twice and walked twice.

Bolduk (1-0), who pitched Eastern to conference, regional and Super Regional championships and a third-place national finish as a 2019 All-America, had last won a game with a four-hit shutout of Illinois Wesleyan University in an elimination game of the 2019 nationals. Against St. Scholastic (5-3), which was coming off a 30-win season in 2021, Bolduk retired 11 of the 12 batter that she faced.

Bolduk entered the game with one out in the fourth and two runners aboard and the Warriors leading, 4-1. She got an infield out and an infield popup to end the inning. She retured the final seven batters in order, with senior rightfielder Alexis Tyrrell (Torrington) coming up with a diving sno-cone catch of a foul fly for the first out of the seventh.

Alyssa Vilchez and Bolduk combined on a two-hitter. They fanned six, walked three and hit one batter.

Against St. Scholastica, SanGiovanni had two of Eastern's nine hits. She reached on an infield single that drove in Woods with the first run of the game for her 100th career hit. Matyasovsky reached three times with two infield singles and a walk.

Pinch-hitting in the fifth, Sophia Vilchez poked an 0-2 offering into left field for her first career hit.

Eastern faces Franklin & Marshall College (9:15 a.m.) and Endicott College (11:15 a.m.) Tuesday.