The St. Lawrence University softball team's opening excursion in the Sunshine State was filled with eventful highlights, including a comeback from 9-1 down to force extra innings in game two of their Sunday in Clermont, Fla.
They fell 6-4 against Luther in the opening game, before dropping a wild eight-inning contest 10-9 against Wooster to wrap up the day. Allion Kloft led the way with four RBIs and as many hits over the two games, while
Emily Siansky chipped in with three RBIs from two hits in her lone game of the day.
St. Lawrence now holds an 0-4 non-conference record early in the 2026 season.
"Offensively, we did a good job of making some adjustments," said Saints head coach
Tyler Pagaduan. "In both games, we had one inning where things spiraled a little bit, and those proved to be the differences. However, I'm proud of this team for engineering a comeback after being down 9-1 and taking a really solid Wooster team to extra innings. We have plenty of softball remaining and can make some more adjustments as we move through our schedule."
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Game 1: Luther 6, St. Lawrence 4
St. Lawrence plated the first runs of the game against the Norse.
Maeve Thompson kicked it off with a single up the middle in the first at-bat of the morning, then
Caelen Jahnle went back to the well and drove another single into shallow center. Kloft then stepped up to the plate and drilled a towering fly ball into the right-center gap. It rolled to the wall, allowing both runners to cross the plate. Kloft came home later in the frame on a double steal and through one inning it was 3-0 St. Lawrence.
Marleigh Monroe started in the circle for St. Lawrence and cruised through the second, then induced a rally-killing double play in the third inning to keep the Norse off the board.
The Scarlet and Brown then added to their lead in the third. Near the top of the order again, Jahnle reached with her second single, then advanced to second base on a wild pitch. Kloft added her third RBI of the game with another double, and it was 4-0 St. Lawrence.
Luther began to chip away from there, cutting the Saints' lead down to three in the top of the fourth. After relief pitcher Alexa Stevermer sent the Saints down in order in their half of the fourth, Luther had a big inning in the fifth and took their first lead of the game off a four-run frame, and that made it 5-4 Norse off five unanswered runs.
The Norse added an insurance run in the seventh and Stevermer got three groundouts to cap off the seventh and make 6-4 the final score.
Monroe finished the game with the loss after five innings of work, surrendering five runs on eight hits and four walks, while she fanned three.
Madison Smith came on in relief, with the first-year not allowing an earned run in two innings of work. It was her first collegiate appearance. She walked two and allowed two knocks.
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Game 2: St. Lawrence 9, Wooster 10 (8 Inn.)
The Saints saw a high-scoring, see-saw affair in the second game of the day, where they allowed a boatload of runs early but plated a plethora in response to erase the deficit and force extras. After each team added a single run in three consecutive half-innings, Wooster opened the floodgates with a seven-inning effort in the bottom of the third to go up 9-1.
St. Lawrence found themselves with work to do, but got to it immediately in the top of the fourth. With two outs,
Emily Wendt reached base with a two-out single and trotted up to second on a booted ball in center field. That allowed Siansky to score Wendt with a shot down the left-field line. Later in the frame, Siansky and
Layne Fritz came around on a Thompson two-run double into the gap, trimming the Fighting Scots' lead to 9-4.
In the sixth, St. Lawrence closed the gap further. First, Fritz worked a 3-1 count out of the nine-hole and crushed an extra-base hit to put a runner in scoring position with one out. The lineup flipped over to Thompson who singled to put runners on the corners. Jahnle scored Fritz on an RBI groundout, then Kloft came up with a clutch two-out double. That made it 9-7.
After relief pitcher
Hannah Reardon had a seamless top of the seventh, St. Lawrence needed two to extend the game.
Isabel Moreno kicked the inning off with an infield single, then scored on the next play when the Wooster center fielder committed a fielding error on a Wendt single. That put Wendt on third for Siansky, who tied the game at 9-9 with an RBI groundout.
In extras, the Saints threatened to score in the top half of the inning when Jahnle walked to put two runners on. Kloft then looked to pull the Scarlet and Brown ahead, and laced a hot shot down the third base line but it was nabbed at the hot corner, and the Fighting Scots got the double play to kill the threat. They then won the game on a leadoff bunt to score the placed runner in the bottom of the eighth.
Moreno and Thompson had the team-high in knocks for the Saints, each with three. Thompson added two RBIs and a run scored. Siansky went two-for-four with three ribbies for the team-high in that category. Moreno, Wendt, and Fritz each had multi-run games with two each. Reardon was saddled with the loss in relief, pitching four and two-third innings while only allowing one unearned run, walking one and striking out three. St. Lawrence finished the game with 14 hits, a season high. They out-hit the Fighting Scots 14-12.
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Up Next:
St. Lawrence returns to Legends Way for games two and three of their Spring Games, when they play Buffalo State and No. 13 ranked Wisconsin-Oshkosh on Monday morning.
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