WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – A day after scoring 22 runs over 12 innings, the bats suddenly went cooled for the Carleton College softball team as the Knights lost 4-1 to University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and 10-0 (6 inn.) to Kalamazoo College.
 
Game 1 Recap
UWSP 4, Carleton 1
After the Pointers (9-4) scored three times in the bottom of the second inning, the Knights (8-6) got one of those runs back in the third frame.
 
Cassie Cunniff (Sr./Mt. Prospect, Ill./Prospect) and Bryanna Schaffer (So./San Diego, Calif./Mar Vista) collected back-to-back one-out singles, then pulled off a double steal before Cunniff raced home on an RBI goundout by Adriana Wiggins (Fy./Long Beach, Calif./Wilson)
 
That proved to be Carleton's last baserunner until Nikki Marsh (Sr./Salem, Conn./East Lyme) singled with two down in the seventh. She accounted for two of the Knights' four hits in the game.
 
UWSP scored its other run in teh fourth inning without the use of a base hit thanks to two walks and two hit batters.
 
Game 2 Recap
Kalamazoo 10, Carleton 0 (6 inn.)
Each member of the Hornets' (7-7) starting lineup scored a run and seven players had two hits. Kalamazoo scored a pair of two-out runs in the second inning and added three more tallies in the third, including a two-run home run by Lucy Hart.
 
The Hornets put the game out of reach with a five-run outburst in the top of the sixth inning, despite having only two hits in the frame.
 
Cunniff was the lone Knight with a multi-hit performance, She has hit safely in all 14 games this season—including 11 multi-hit games—en route to a MIAC-best .640 batting average this season.
 
Up Next for the Knights
Carleton closes out its Spring Break trip to the Sunshine State with two more games on Friday, March 24. The Knights play Washington & Jefferson College at 2:00 p.m. EDT followed by a 4:30 p.m. EDT contest against Elmhurst University.