CLERMONT, Fla.- Nationally ranked UW-Oshkosh softball never trailed on the way to picking up a pair of wins Friday (March 20) at THE Spring Games in Clermont, Fla.
 
Oshkosh (9-1), ranked 13th in NCAA Division III by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association, won by scores of 4-1 over Amherst College (Mass.) and 7-2 against Babson College (Mass.).
 
The Titans collected 18 hits on the day, including three each from Emma Bohn (Rosendale/Laconia), Brianne Lopez (Volo, Ill./Grant Community) and Amanda Martineck (Frankfort, Ill./Lincoln-Way East). Bohn went a combined 3-for-5 with a walk, four runs scored and a sacrifice bunt during the victories.
 
In the first contest of the day, Oshkosh scored thrice during the bottom of the first inning before tacking on a run in the third for a 4-0 cushion.
 
Bohn, Sarah Hammerton (Appleton/Appleton West), Martineck and Morgan Miller (Schaumburg, Ill./Schaumburg) all delivered consecutive one-out hits in the home half of the first frame. Hammerton plated Bohn with a double ahead of Martineck's single to right field that brought home Hammerton. Lopez was then hit by a pitch to load the bases, and Martineck scampered home on a wild pitch to provide the Titans a 3-0 lead.
 
The three runs were more than enough for Oshkosh's pitching combination of starter Brianna Bougie (Oshkosh/Oshkosh West) and reliever Grace Nardi (Marquette, Mich./Negaunee). Bougie (2-1), who kept the Mammoths scoreless through six innings, earned the win after allowing a run on four hits and across six-plus innings of work. She walked three and struck out three.
 
Nardi inherited a two-on, none-out situation in the top of the seventh inning but set down the only three batters she faced to notch her second save of the year and third career. With the tying run in the batter's box, Nardi recorded a pair of strikeouts and a foul fly to seal the win.
 
Oshkosh scored its fourth run as Lopez crossed the plate on an error during the third inning. Amherst (3-4) broke up Bougie's shutout bid on a grounder with runners at the corners during the seventh frame.
 
Heidi Li was 2-for-3 and scored Amherst's lone run.
 
Mammoths starting pitcher Abby Moravek (1-1) was charged with the complete-game loss, allowing four runs (three earned) on seven hits and one walk with six strikeouts.
 
During the second game of the day, the Titans scored twice in the top of the first inning, broke a 2-2 tie with a three-run fifth frame and tacked on another two runs during the sixth to put the game out of reach.
 
Bohn was 2-for-3 with a walk, a stolen base and three runs scored to pace the Titans, who produced 11 hits. Martineck singled twice, stole a base, scored a run and had a season-best three runs batted in. Lopez added a pair of hits, an RBI and a steal.
 
Kiran Sanford (Two Rivers/Mishicot) (5-0) remained unbeaten during her first five collegiate starts, going the distance in the Oshkosh pitcher's circle. Sanford, who had not yielded an earned run or an extra-base hit in her first four outings, ceded two runs on four hits, including two for extra bases. She recorded seven strikeouts without issuing a walk.
 
Sanford retired 19 of the last 20 Beavers she faced. The only Babson baserunner after the Beavers loaded the bases with no outs during the second inning reached via a hit-by-pitch with one out during the bottom of the sixth inning.
 
In 29.2 innings across five starts, Sanford now sports a 0.47 earned run average and a 52:6 strikeout-to-walk ratio while limiting opponents to a .125 batting average.
 
Oshkosh led off the game with singles from Olivia Ullman (Denmark/Denmark) and Bohn. Hammerton sacrificed both into scoring position for Martineck, who singled sharply up the middle to bring home Ullman and Bohn.
 
Babson knotted the score at 2 during the bottom of the first frame on a two-out, two-run triple from Belle DiCampello, but the Beavers did not advance a runner past first base after Sanford pitched around a two-on, no-out situation during the second inning. Sanford got a pair of infield outs and a strikeout to escape the jam and keep the game tied at 2.
 
Martineck later drove in Bohn with an opposite-field single with what proved to be the winning run during the top of the fifth inning. The Titans added to their lead with RBIs from Olivia Baugnet (De Pere/De Pere) and Lopez in the fifth frame, and Hammerton during the sixth.
 
Oshkosh capped the scoring during the sixth inning, when Bohn crossed the plate on a Beavers error.
 
Babson starting pitcher Anna Topel (2-3) suffered the loss after ceding five runs on eight hits and two walks with a pair of strikeouts in five innings.
 
The Titans return to the field Sunday (March 22) in Clermont against Colby College (Maine) at 11:30 a.m. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 1:45 p.m. (CDT).