COBLESKILL, N.Y. – The Union College softball team earned a pair of non-conference victories on Tuesday afternoon over SUNY Cobleskill, earning 9-5 and 5-3 wins at Fighting Tiger Park.
 
Senior Ellie Wintringer led Union (13-17) with five runs batted in on the day, while first-year Amelia Ormond and sophomore Amy FitzPatrick both had a team-leading three hits apiece over the two games. Sophomore Carra Cleaves had two hits and two RBIs at the plate while also earning a win and a save in the circle.
 
Game 1: Union 9, Cobleskill 5
 
Union scored seven times in the first two innings to start the day, cruising the rest of the way for a 9-5 win. Ormond went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI at the top of the lineup, while Wintringer hit a grand slam and Cleaves had two hits and drove in a pair.
 
The Garnet Chargers needed only five batters to jump out to a 3-0 lead after half an inning. Following a leadoff single by Ormond, junior Sam Rose tripled to plate the game's first run. Cleaves and senior Haley Gibbons followed with a run-scoring double and single, respectively.
 
After Cobleskill scored three times to even the score in the bottom half, Union went back in front thanks to one big swing by Wintringer. A walk, single and hit batter helped to load the bases with one out, and the senior infielder unloaded them with a shot over the centerfield fence for her fourth homer in the last five games.
 
Cleaves helped her own cause with a run-scoring double in the top of the fourth inning, sending junior Sophia Gomes home from first base with two outs. Ormond drove in one in the fifth frame as well with a two-out single that increased the lead to six at 9-3.
 
Cleaves (7-8) turned her day around after a rough first frame, allowing only three singles over the next five innings. She finished the afternoon allowing three runs (two earned) on four hits while striking out nine, including a pair of punchouts to end the game when she re-entered in relief of first-year Siena Damigella, who made her first collegiate appearance in the circle.
 
Game 2: Union 5, Cobleskill 3
 
Union scored the first five runs of game two on the way to a 5-3 victory and a Tuesday sweep. FitzPatrick had three hits, scored a run and drove in one to pace the offensive attack, while Wintringer and classmate Riley Jahnle plated one run apiece as well.
 
The visitors started strong in game two as they did in game one, getting a pair of runs in the first. Wintringer opened the scoring with an RBI double to score first-year Daniella Nocera, who led off the game with a single, and Wintringer came home on a single by junior Kyla Springer. Union doubled its lead in the third on a Fitzpatrick RBI double and a subsequent run-scoring single by Jahnle, and a fifth run came home in the fourth after a passed ball allowed first-year Amelia Branzacio to scamper home.
 
Cobleskill scored three runs in the fourth inning to get back into the game, but Brancazio got a flyout with a runner on third base to escape further damage. After a 1-2-3 fifth inning, the first-year induced a grounder with two in scoring position to end the sixth inning before Cleaves came on to set down Cobleskill in the seventh and finish off the win.
 
Brancazio (6-6) allowed three runs on eight hits with four strikeouts over six innings, and Cleaves tossed one scoreless inning to earn her first save of the year.
 
Union will return to action on Saturday with a Liberty League twinbill at the University of Rochester beginning at 2 p.m.