JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville University softball returned to the Debbie and Fred Pruitt Softball Complex Saturday for their first ASUN Conference series at home as they welcomed Stetson University to campus. The Dolphins (15-7, 3-2) used power pitching in game one and power hitting in game two to cruise to a doubleheader sweep of the Hatters (4-11, 0-5) by scores of 6-1 and 8-0 in six innings.
 
Game one started with Stetson getting two runners on base to begin the game, but Alyssa Bilodeau left both in scoring position, striking out the side to thwart Stetson's hopes of scoring first. In the bottom of the inning, Victoria Rodebaugh tripled to right center and the first pitch of the game and scored on the second pitch by way of a sacrifice fly by Allison Bratek.
 
Stetson evened things at 1-1 in the fourth inning with a leadoff homerun before Bilodeau bounced back to strikeout the next three Hatters and end the inning. In the home half, Carolina Watson worked a leadoff walk and was replaced by pinch runner Abby Quinn. Samantha Poehlman followed with a well-placed infield single to put two runners on before Makenzie Buss sacrificed both runners into scoring position. Madison Kennedy then singled to left to put JU back in front and two batters later, Madison Reynolds scored Poehlman on an RBI groundout to make it 3-1 Dolphins.
 
Jacksonville scored another run in the fifth inning when pinch runner Caroline O'Neal got into a rundown between first and second, which allowed Allison Bratek opportunity to break for the plate and slide past the tag of the catcher for a steal of home to make it 4-1.
 
In the sixth inning, the first three batters reached for JU to load the bases for Rodebaugh, who hit a sac fly to left center to plate Hallie Kern before Bratek singled to left center to score Reynolds and make it 6-1.
 
Bilodeau (6-5) worked a clean seventh inning, setting down the Hatters in order with two more strikeouts, to bring her total for the afternoon to 15, just two shy of her career high. Poehlman drove in a pair of runs while Bratek and Ashley Darakjian each turned in 2-3 games.
 
It was all Jacksonville in game two of the afternoon, as the Dolphins scored the opening run of the game in the second inning on an RBI double from Madison Kennedy that split the left center gap to score Samantha Poehlman.
 
In the forth inning, Makenzie Buss went deep with one out on the first pitch of the at bat out to centerfield before an Abby Quinn two-out single scored Ashley Darakjian after she worked a walk and advanced to third by way of a wild pitch and groundout.
 
Two more Jacksonville runs scored in the fifth inning when Darakjian doubled to right center with bases loaded and two away to score Reynolds and Poehlman to make it a 6-0 game.
 
In the bottom of the sixth, Kari Holzrichter worked a leadoff walk and was lifted for pinch runner Carolyn O'Neal. Victoria Rodebaugh worked a walk to put two on before back-to-back flyouts to left brought Madison Reynolds to the plate, where she doubled once more, this time to left field to plate O'Neal. Poehlman stepped with the run-rule looming and delivered a game-ending two-run double to centerfield to capture game two 8-0.
 
Skylar Whitty (6-2) picked up the win the circle, going 5 1/3 innings and scattering four hits without allowing a run and striking out two before turning things over to Seana Mora for the final out in the sixth. Bratek went 2-4 in the nightcap while Poehlman and Darakjian drove in two runs each. Eight different Dolphins found their way into the hit column in the contest.

Due to inclement weather the next two days, the series finale will be played Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 PM.