WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – The Grand Valley State Lakers won two more games Thursday (March 5) to push their winning streak to seven straight as they topped the University of Mary, 7-2, before a mercy-rule, six-inning 12-4 win over Felician. GVSU is now 9-3 on the year and has two days left on their Spring Break trip.
 
The Lakers plated five runs in the second inning to run away with game one. Taylor Rieger doubled home a run, Joanna Cirrincione singled home a pair, then Nikoma Holmen and Morgan Wagner each knocked home a run. Mary got single tallies in the fourth and fifth inning, but Cirrincione again had the answer with an RBI single in the sixth before an unearned run rounded out the scoring.
 
Cirrincione led the Laker attack with a 3-4 performance with 3 RBI and 2 runs. Rieger had two hits and an RBI while Holmen and Wagner each drove in a run. Emma Cerroni went 2-4 at the dish and scored twice. Ashley Platek (W, 3-2) went the distance and allowed two earned runs on four hits and a pair of walks while striking out six.
 
A sacrifice fly in the top of the first inning gave Felician an early lead in game two, but the Lakers responded with another lopsided inning, putting up three runs in the home half on a Brooke Henning blast over the centerfield wall. Felician would answer with three runs of their own in the second, but it would be all Lakers the rest of the way.
 
Cerroni tripled home the tying run in the third then Wagner singled home what would be the winning run the following frame. A bases-loaded, bases-clearing double by Kelci LaTour would give the Lakers breathing room in the fourth before Cerroni brought home LaTour to round out the five-run inning. Henning launched her second home run of the game, a solo shot to left, in the fifth, before a Rieger bomb to right plated two more in the sixth to reach a mercy-rule victory.
 
Hannah Dieck (W, 2-0) gave up four earned runs on seven hits and two walks and a strikeout in six innings of work in the circle. Henning went 3-3 with two homers and four RBI while Rieger went 1-3, drove in two runs and scored three times. Emma Cerroni went 3-4 with a pair of RBI in game two. The Lakers had a combined eight extra-base hits in the two wins.
 
GVSU is back on the diamond Friday (March 6) as they face Adelphi at 10:00 AM and Georgian Court at 12:15 PM in the penultimate day of their trip to the Sunshine State. GVSULakers.com will provide links to live stats for both games while @GVSUSoftball has Twitter updates throughout the games.