CLERMONT, Fla. -- Four Eastern Connecticut State University pitchers combined on 12 shutout innings and graduate All-America centerfielder Cassie Woods (Mystic) reached base six times and scored three runs as the Warriors completed their first perfect trip to Florida with an 8-0, 5 inning win over McDaniel College and a 1-0 triumph over Rhodes College Friday at Legends Field.
 

Ranked No. 9 nationally, Eastern (12-2) won all eight of its games on the trip, outscoring its opponent 53-3 with 19 extra-base hits and holding its opponent to a .149 batting average. The Warriors posted five shutouts, won by eight-run rule three times and claimed two one-run decisions.
 

In Friday's two wins, Woods had a double, two singles, walked twice, was hit-by-pitch, had a sacrifice bunt and scored three runs, while junior Alyssa Vilchez (Brampton, ON) had four hits, senior Brooke Matyasovsky (Orange), junior Taylor Darby (South Windsor) and sophomore Sarah Remillard (Grafton, MA) added two hits each and Matyasovsky, Darby and graduate student Alexis Tyrrell (Torrington) each drove in two runs.
 

On the day, Vilchez, seniors Morgan Bolduk (Vernon) and Carley Stoker (Sandy Creek, NY) and first-year sophomore Alexis Michon (Montville) combined on the mound to allow only nine hits (eight singles) and four walks with 17 strikeouts and limited their opponent to a .200 batting average.
 

Eastern opens up north Friday at 3 p.m. in a non-conference doubleheader at Springfield College.
 

 

Darby and Vilchez each had two hits and Darby, Tyrrell and Matyasovsky each drove in two runs. Woods doubled in the bottom of the first and scored the first run on Matyasovsky's sacrifice fly and was hit by a pitch and scored again in the third on Darby's single. Batting ninth, Tyrrell highlighted a five-run fourth inning with a two-run double.
 

Stoker (2-1) and Michon combined on a three-hitter with nine strikeouts and one walk in handing McDaniel (5-8) its fourth straight loss. Michon struck out the first five batters she faced in pitching the final two innings while Stoker allowed only one hit and one walk with four strikeouts over the first three innings.
 

The Warriors stranded 11 runners (leaving the bases loaded twice) but Bolduk (3-0) and Vilchez (third save in the last three days) combined on a six-hitter with eight strikeouts and three walks as Rhodes (7-11) dropped to 0-4 in Florida with its third shutout. 


The only run of the game came in the third inning. Woods led off with a single to center, was sacrificed to second by Darby. With two out, senior third baseman Julia SanGiovanni (East Haven) was hit by a pitch for the second time in the game, sixth time this year and record 38th time in her career, and Vilchez reached on an infield single to load the bases. Remillard's single to left plated Woods with the only run.

Bolduk (3-0) fanned five and stranded seven runners through the first four innings, carrying a 1-0 lead into the fifth. Darby recorded the first out of the inning in foul territory by reaching over the fence to retire freshman Jordyn Ebert, but a double by No. 3 freshman hitter Hannah Schweiger ended Bolduk's day.

Vilchez came on to record two strikeouts to strand Schweiger at second and end the fifth, got two infield outs and a strikeout in the sixth, and survived Schweiger's foul home run with two out and a runner on in the seventh to get a game-inning line drive to Tyrrell in right.

Woods reached in all four plate appearances with two singles and two walks, and Vilchez and Remilard had two singles each.

Senior righty Madison Keller (1-2) limited Eastern to only seven hits and stranded nine runners through the first four innings.

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