NAPLES, Fla. – The Geneva College softball team added two more victories on Thursday to its strong start to the season in Florida, defeating Pitt-Bradford (5-2) and La Roche (10-4) on another successful day over Spring Break.  Geneva is now 5-1 on the season.

In game one of the day against Pitt-Bradford, sophomore Micaiah Armstrong got her first start in the circle this year, and senior Justine Robbins provided an early run in the top of the first when her two-out triple drove home senior Lexi Zanic.

The Panthers responded in the bottom of the inning to tie the score with a two-out hit, but Armstrong controlled the Pitt-Bradford offense over the rest of her outing.

Sophomore Isabela Skrlac came up with the big hit offensively for the Golden Tornadoes in the fourth inning, driving a ball into the right-centerfield gap to clear the bases with one out.  Junior Aliya Ottaviani and seniors Madison Rapp and Payton James, who had each singled earlier in the inning to load the bases, all came home to score on Sklrac's double.  Skrlac then stole third base and scored on junior Molly Shelley's sacrifice fly to increase Geneva's lead to 5-1.

Junior Faith Bonar took over in the circle for Armstrong in the fifth inning, also making her first pitching appearance of the season, and she delivered two scoreless innings of relief.  Senior Alena Campbell closed out the win in the seventh, giving up one run but securing the victory.

Armstrong earned the victory in the circle with four innings of work.  She gave up just three hits, no walks and one run, while striking out one.

James led the offense with a perfect 3-for-3 day at the plate, scoring once and stealing a base.  Robbins and junior Kyra Wilcox both contributed two hits to the attack, while Skrlac had the big hit with her three-run double.

Senior Sophia Tvaroch got the start in the circle in the second game of the day against La Roche, and the Redhawks scratched across a run in the top of the first against Tvaroch.  Geneva pulled even in the bottom of the frame, though, when Wilcox singled and eventually came around to score on a La Roche error.

The Redhawks took advantage of a Golden Tornado error to start the top of the third to plate two unearned runs, but Geneva responded with a big inning in the bottom of the frame.

Zanic led off with a single, followed by a single from Robbins and a walk from Ottaviani to load the bases with no outs.  Zanic and Robbins came home on an error, and later in the inning senior Jorja Koerner and Wilcox each drove in runs with singles to give Geneva a 5-3 advantage.

Koerner relieved Tvaroch to start the top of the fourth and gave the Golden Tornadoes two perfect innings in the circle, retiring all six Redhawks she faced.

Koerner came up big offensively as well.  She drove in Ottaviani with an RBI-single in the fourth, and she contributed to a big inning offensively in the fifth that broke the game open.

Geneva's rally came with two outs in the fifth.  Robbins singled home Shelley, Robbins scored on an error and Koerner drove in another run with an RBI-single to extend the lead to 9-3.

Both teams each added a run late, with sophomore Stacey Rodriguez scoring the final Geneva run in the 10-4 victory.

Koerner earned the win with her two innings of relief, while she also led the offense with a 3-for-4 effort at the plate, driving in three runs.  Shelley, Wilcox, Zanic and Robbins all finished with two hits, while Ottaviani scored three runs.

Geneva will play twice more on Friday, with games against RIT and Alfred State starting at 9:00 a.m.