FORT MYERS, FL- Junior Andrea Bagley (Foxboro, MA/Foxboro) and freshman Lesley Warn (Portland, ME/Deering) combined to yield one unearned run on seven hits in 13 innings on Monday, helping the Wheaton College softball team pick up an 8-0, six-inning victory over the Ohio-based College of Wooster and a 2-1 triumph against Saint Joseph's College of Maine in the Gene Cusic Collegiate Classic at the Lee County Sports Complex. Seniors Brady Benton (Concord, NH/Concord) and Stacey Kelleher (Brockton, MA/Brockton) combined to go 7-for-7 in the opener for Wheaton, which is now 5-1.

In recording her first college win, Warn tossed five shutout innings against Wooster. After yielding a leadoff single in the first, she didn't allow her second knock until two were down in the fourth. Warn set the Fighting Scots down in order in the fifth, finishing with five strikeouts, before Bagley went 1-2-3 in the sixth.

Meanwhile, the Wheaton offense got going as the game progressed, with Benton's first-inning RBI single giving the Lyons a 1-0 edge. Three more runs came across in the third, as Benton and Kelleher provided run-scoring hits, with Kelleher's going for two bases. The Blue and White added three runs on five hits and an error in the fifth, with Kelleher smacking another RBI double and freshman Valerie Tratner's (Forest Hills, NY/Saint Francis Prep) first collegiate hit going for a run-scoring single. Sophomore Kristen Hunt's (Milford, CT/Jonathan Law) walk-off RBI double in the sixth clinched the eight-run-rule-shortened victory.

Kelleher, who was named New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Player of the Week earlier in the day, was 4-for-4 with two doubles and two RBI, while Benton finished 3-for-3 with three runs and a pair of RBI. Freshman Amanda Poplaski (North Reading, MA/North Reading) walked twice and scored twice. Junior Andrea Kelley (Westerville, OH/Westerville South) took the loss for 1-3 Wooster, yielding eight earned runs on 11 hits while walking four Lyons.

Against Saint Joseph's, which qualified for last year's Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Tournament, Wheaton scored twice in the second before using solid defense to hold off the 1-1 Monks. Poplaski was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to plate the first run before sophomore Marissa Hobocan (Shelton, CT/Saint Joseph) singled in what proved to be the deciding run with two out.

Saint Joseph's trimmed its deficit to 2-1 by scoring on an error in the third, but with runners on second and third and no one out, Hunt fielded a grounder at shortstop and cut down the potential tying run at the plate before Bagley fanned the next batter and induced the final Monk of the inning to ground out to Tratner at third.

Poplaski robbed the leadoff hitter in the fifth with a diving back-handed catch in right field, and Hunt tossed to Hobocan for a force at second base on a bang-bang play to record the second out of the seventh before the final batter of the contest grounded out to Tratner.

Hobocan went 2-for-2 to pace the Lyon offense, sophomore Nicole DeRosa (Greenwich, CT/Greenwich Academy) rapped a double, and freshman Mary Fay (Stoughton, MA/Cardinal Spellman) recorded her first collegiate hit. Bagley yielded only one unearned run during a complete-game effort, allowing five singles while fanning four batters. Freshman Madylan Kluna (Standish, ME/Bonny Eagle) was saddled with the loss for the Monks, giving up a pair of unearned runs on six hits while striking out four Lyons.

Wheaton's season-opening run of 12 games in six days continues tomorrow when the Blue and White opposes Rockford College of Illinois at 9:00 a.m. and Carroll University of Wisconsin at 11:00 a.m.