After launching its 10-game, five-day spring break trip with a 10-1 setback to Wayne State University, the University of Minnesota Duluth regrouped -- and rebounded -- by throttling Saint Michael's College 12-1 in Clermont, Fla.
UMD mustered just four hits (all singles) in the five-inning setback to Wayne State, with freshman second baseman
Natalie Wright accounting for two of those. The Warriors broke the game open with a five-run fifth and touched up Bulldog junior pticher
Cayli Sadler for 12 hits, including a pair of home runs.
Sophomore SamHartmann (6-2) picked up the victory against St. Michael's, going four innings and allowing just three hits while striking out 10. UMD scored twice in each of the first two innings and once in the fourth before erupting for seven runs in the fifth, and final, inning. Sophomore designated player/shortstop
Mel Jarvi went 3-for-3 while rookie center fielder
Hannah Schmoll also finished with three hits -- to improve her team-leading batting average to .415 -- and drove in three runs.
Freshman
Sadie Knudson made her collegiate pitching debut in relief of Hartmann and retired all three Purple Knights she faced, fanning two and getting the other to ground out to end the game in the bottom of the fifth.
The Bulldogs, who are now 10-5 overall, will face Southern Connecticut State University and Philadelphia University Monday morning in Clermont.