LAKE COUNTY, Fla.—University of Southern Indiana Softball matched its season-high winning streak of seven games Thursday afternoon as the No. 16 Screaming Eagles earned an 11-2, five-inning victory over Le Moyne College before grabbing a 2-0 win over Southwest Minnesota State University on the fifth day of The Spring Games.
 
USI (15-3) concludes The Spring Games Friday when it takes on the University of Sioux Falls at 5 p.m. (CST) and Northern State University at 7:30 p.m.
 
Southern Indiana (15-3) 11, Le Moyne (10-5) 2
USI Softball used a three-run second inning and an eight-run fourth inning to breeze past Le Moyne, 11-2, in five innings to begin its fifth day of competition at The Spring Games.
 
Junior outfielder Olivia Clark-Kittleson (Carbondale, Illinois) had an RBI-single in the second inning as the Eagles took advantage of a pair of walks, a hit batter and two errors to score their first three runs.
 
Sophomore utility player Caitlyn Bradley (Forest, Indiana) went 2-for-2 with a pair of RBIs in the fourth inning alone as USI broke the game wide open. Bradley began the inning with a solo shot over the centerfield fence and went back to the plate to record an RBI-single.
 
A double by sophomore second baseman Claire Johnson (Pittsboro, Indiana) followed by an error in the next at-bat put the Eagles up, 5-0, while senior catcher Haley Hodges (Portage, Indiana) gave the Eagles an 8-0 cushion with a three-run bomb over the centerfield fence.
 
The Eagles tacked on another tally on a pair of wild pitches, while Bradley's RBI-single put USI up, 10-0. Clark-Kittleson drove in Bradley in the next at-bat with an RBI-single to centerfield to complete USI's eight-run inning.
 
Le Moyne, which is receiving votes in the latest NFCA Top 25 poll, got a two-run home run off freshman pitcher Jennifer Leonhardt (Louisville, Kentucky) in the bottom of the fourth inning to break-up the shutout; but that is all Leonhardt would give up as she picked-up the complete-game victory.
 
Leonhardt (7-1) scattered five hits throughout five innings, while striking out three batters to earn her fourth straight decision.
 
Southern Indiana 2, Southwest Minnesota State (5-7) 0
The Eagles scored a run on a wild pitch in the second inning and got a solo home run from senior shortstop Lexi Reese (Lebanon, Indiana) in the third en route to a 2-0 win over Southwest Minnesota State.
 
Sophomore pitcher Courtney Atkisson (Bringhurst, Indiana) recorded her second complete-game shutout of the season as she scattered four hits throughout seven innings to improve to 5-2 on the year.
 
Southwest Minnesota State had runners at first and second with one out in the seventh inning, but Atkisson induced a fly out and a groundout in consecutive at-bats to end the threat and preserve the Eagles' seventh straight win.