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The Mount St. Joseph University softball team won two more games in Florida Spring Break play, notching a 5-0 win on a no-hitter by Paige Kiesewetter (Piqua, OH/Miami East), and a 5-4 extra inning wiin over Washington (MD) College on Friday. The two wins enabled the Lions to move to 6-2 on the season, tying last season's victory total. The Mount will now return home where they are schedule to resume 2015 action on March 19 with a doubleheader at Wilmington College.
The Lions began play on the day with a morning game against Hiram. Kiesewetter, a transfer in her first year with the Mount, tossed her first college no-hitter, holding the Terriers to just two walks and no runs in the 5-0 victory. The Mount pounded out 12 hits, as four different players contributed two hits each. Paige Norton (Cincinnati, OH/Reading) also had two runs scored, as the Lions scored twice in the third inning, once in the sixth inning and two more times in the seventh inning. The Mount had seven hits in 13 at-bats with runners in scoring position.
The Mount matched last season's win total of six in the second game of the day, a 5-4 eighth ininign when over Washington (MD) College. The two teams went into the eighth inning tied at two-all, with Washington plating two runs in the top of the frame. The Mount claimed the win in the bottom of the inning. Erica Parker (Miamisburg, OH/Miamisburg) and Danielle Nichelson (Glencoe, KY/Gallatin County) each recorded an RBI to knot the score at four-all, and Morgan Kain (Batesville, IN/Baresville) scored the game-winning run, racing in from third base on an RBI groundout by Ashley Moore (Cincinnati, OH/Northwest). Nichelson went the distance for the Mount, giving up just one earned run, in earning her fourth victory of the season in as many decisions. Kain had three hits to lead the nine-hit attack while Morgan Hoehn (Cincinnati, OH/Colerain) chipped in two hits.
