PRESCOTT, ARIZ. – Playing in its first Cal Pac games since 2019, the Embry-Riddle softball team came out an earned a doubleheader sweep of Saint Katherine on Sunday afternoon. The Eagles did it in two different fashions, winning 1-0 in the first game and then waking up the bats for a 9-3 win in the second contest.

Game 1: Embry-Riddle 1, Saint Katherine 0

Maddie Judge extended her hitting streak to seven games to start the Eagles offense, then came around to score when Kate Delaney singled through the right side. ERAU had the two hits in the first inning, but just three the remainder of the contest while the one-run lead hung in the balance the final six innings.

The Eagles did make the one run stand up due to its great effort in the circle. Mikaeli Davidson started the game and went a strong six innings, giving up just three hits, not issuing a walk, and striking out 11.

Davidson allowed two hits in the top of the first inning, and then allowed just two baserunners in her final five innings of work. She had two stretches of retiring 6+ batters in a row, retiring eighth straight between the first and third innings, then getting the final six batters she faced.

Delaney not only drove in the game's only run, but also recorded her second save of the season. She pitched a clean seventh inning, and recording the last out of the first contest via strikeout.

Game 2: Embry-Riddle 9, Saint Katherine 3

The Eagles scored again in the first inning, this time putting up three runs in its first set of at-bats. Diana Miranda Montano drove in a run with a single through the left side, then scored when Davidson tripled to bring home a pair.

Shaylee Sanders came in to run after Jaden Espinoza led off the second with a double, then a pair of bunts got Sanders around for another run. Judge's RBI bunt single extended her hitting streak to eight games, and now had hits in nine of the first ten games.

The Firebirds scored its first runs of the afternoon in the fourth inning, but that is all they would muster offensively. Though USK scored three runs in the top half, the Eagles grabbed two of those back in the bottom of the fourth.

Embry-Riddle got three more runs in the bottom of the sixth, with the biggest hit coming via the long ball. Espinoza led off another inning with a hit, then Tatum Chestnut hit her first career home run to dead center easily clearing the 215-foot distance needed.

As a team, the Eagles had 16 total hits, with six different players recording two or more hits. Espinoza was 3-for-4, and Rachel Hammons with was a perfect 3-for-3 with a pair of RBI.

Kate Delaney earned another save on Sunday, this time of the three-inning variety to finish Game 2. Delaney allowed just two hits in the final three frames and struck out four, following up Vanessa Brink's 10-strikout performance for her fifth win of the season.

The Eagles are back in action on Monday to wrap up its four-game series with Saint Katherine on Monday in Prescott. First pitch of the doubleheader from the Eagles Softball Field is scheduled for 11 a.m.