FORT MYERS, FLA.  3/18/04  - The Keene State College softball team improved its Spring Week record to 6-2 with a pair of wins on Thursday at Fort Myers, Fla.

Junior Meghan McLoughlin (Brattleboro, Vt.) tossed a complete game three-hitter with seven strikeouts to lead KSC to a 5-2 win over Wheaton (Mass.) College in its opener.  McLoughlin, who notched her second win this spring, gave up no hits through the first four innings.

Playing against the team that knocked them out of the NCAA Tournament last year, the Owls took advantage of a couple of Lyon errors to score two runs in the first.
KSC added two more runs in the third on a RBI triple by Abby Collis (Wynantskill, N.Y.) and a run producing hit from Emily Crompton (Concord, N.H.).  Amanda Foote (Hudson, N.H.) capped the Owls attack with her first-ever home run in the fourth.

Jennifer Smith (Salem, Mass.) pitched a complete game four hitter as the Owls defeated Trinity (Conn.) College 4-1 in their second game.  Smith didn't allow an earned run and struck out four to pickup her second win of the week.

Collis had a two-run double in the bottom of the first to give KSC a 2-1 lead.  Sarah Campbell (Auburn, Mass.) hit her first home run in the second, and Caroline Kurkowski (Niskayuna, N.Y.) belted her fourth round-tripper of the spring in the fifth to supply all the offense the Owls would need.

On Wednesday night, KSC suffered a 4-1 loss to Wesleyan University in a make-up game originally scheduled for Tuesday.

Wesleyan jumped on the Owls for three unearned runs in the first inning.  KSC could muster just two hits, (singles by Kurkowski and Foote), off Cardinals' starter Molly Gaebe.  The Owls, who left the bases loaded in the fourth, sixth, and seventh inning got their lone run in the seventh when Adria Reynolds (Portsmouth, N.H.) reached on an error with the bases loaded. 

KSC starter Stephanie Carter (Cohoes, N.Y.) pitched well in the loss. She gave up just one earned run and had nine strikeouts and three walks.

Keene State wraps up its Spring Week trip with games against Roger Williams University and Fontbonne University of St. Louis on Friday.