Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CLERMONT, Fla. – The Thiel College softball team opened play in the Dot Richardson Spring Games Sunday with a pair of wins at Hancock Park in Clermont, Fla.
 
Thiel opened the day with a 3-0 shutout victory over the Elizabethtown Blue Jays before earning a 6-2 win over the Emerson Lions.
 
Allison Williams (Corry, Pa./Corry) earned the win against Elizabethtown, pitching seven scoreless innings for the complete game shutout. Williams allowed just three hits while striking out six and refusing to issue a walk.
 
The Tomcats took a 1-0 lead over the Blue Jays in the first inning when cleanup hitter Ashley Dolan (Export, Pa./Franklin Regional) singled to left field, scoring Danielle Massengill (North Bend, Wash./Mt. Si) from third base.
 
Thiel added two more runs in the fifth inning. Freshman outfielder Bailey Ahern (Bonney Lake, Wash./Bonney Lake) knocked in the first of those runs when she hit a sacrifice fly to right field, which scored Madison Cheek (Milan, Ohio/Edison). Dolan followed with a single up the middle, which brought in Massengill from third base.
 
Dolan recorded two hits and two RBIs against Elizabethtown while Massengill also recorded two hits.
 
Thiel head coach Amy Schafer picked up her 100^th career win with the Tomcats' 3-0 victory over Elizabethtown.
 
Amanda Callahan (Austintown, Ohio/Austintown Fitch) earned the win against Emerson. She threw all seven innings, allowing two earned runs on seven hits. She struck out two and allowed two walks.
 
The Tomcats fell behind 1-0 against the Lions when Alexandra Wysota knocked in a run on a 2-out double to left center field.
 
Thiel responded with a 3-run third inning that was highlighted by a Dolan 2-RBI single up the middle. Freshman outfielder Ashley Guillory (Natrona Heights, Pa./Highlands) notched the other RBI in the third inning on a shot through the left side that scored Callahan.
 
Emerson sliced Thiel's lead down to one run in the bottom half of the third when Jenna Giannelli singled down the right field line, allowing Brittany Rochford to score from second base.
 
The rest of the game belonged to the Tomcats as they went on to score two runs in the sixth and their sixth and final run of the game in the seventh.
 
Ahern came off the bench as a pinch hitter in the sixth inning against the Lions and delivered with a 2-RBI single to right field, which scored Callahan and Ali House (Liberty, Ohio/Liberty).
 
House went on to drive in Thiel's sixth run of the game in the seventh inning on a shot to left center field that scored Cheek.
 
Dolan went 3-for-4 against Emerson with a pair of RBIs. On the day, Dolan notched five hits and four RBIs.
 
The Tomcats (2-0) will return to action in the Dot Richardson Spring Games Monday when they face the Moravian Greyhounds (3 p.m.) and Adrian Bulldogs (5 p.m.).