JOLIET, Ill. -- The University of St. Francis softball team's introductory debut against first-year Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference member Mount Mary University (Wis.) proved to be a smashing success with the Saints outscoring the visiting Blue Angels 39-0 in a doubleheader sweep Tuesday afternoon at the Harlow Lockwood Softball Fields located in the Inwood Softball Complex.  USF posted a 16-0 first-game victory and followed that with a 23-0 outburst in the nightcap.

Both contests went the minimum five innings.

Twelve Saints in all recorded hits on the day as part of an overall 34-hit, 35-RBI attack.  Missy Saldana (6-for-6, 5 RBIs, 4 runs), Sarah Viar (4-for-6, 3 RBIs, 5 runs), Kylie Cook (3-for-7, 3 RBIs, 6 runs) and Emily Hurst (5-for-6, 7 RBIs, 5 runs) highlighted the show at the top of the order, with Isabella Landeros (4-for-5, 3 RBIs, 2 runs), Kaitlyn Schofield (4-for-4, 3 RBIs, 2 runs) and Morgan Smardo (3-for-5, 2 RBIs, 5 runs) all also collecting multiple hits and RBIs.

Kamryn Koontz (2 RBIs) and Hurst each blasted deep homeruns on the day, and Emily Boyle (2 RBIs),  Juliana Anderson (1 RBI), Hailey Kaddatz (1 RBI), and Alana Gray (2 RBIs) all drove in runs with their respective base hit with Chylece Cluck collecting her RBI via a sacrifice fly.

Mount Mary (0-21, 0-9 CCAC), meanwhile, totaled just six hits on the day as a team due to the combined stinginess of Saint pitchers Boyle, Schofield and Amia Aguilar.  Boyle (14-2) registered her fourteenth win of the season in Game 1, while Schofield (13-6) picked up her thirteenth victory.  Aguilar saw action in both contests in aiding the Saints toward their sixth and seventh shutouts of the 2026 campaign.

Game 1: USF 16, Mount Mary 0
The Saints (27-8, 13-1) scored all eight of their needed runs for a mercy rule victory in the first inning via a total of eight hits and with the help of three MMU errors.  Saldana had two-hits in the frame with with Boyle, Smardo and Saldana all providing two RBIs apiece.

USF would also plate single runs in each of the second and fourth innings via RBIs from Landeros and Cluck, respectively, with a six-run inning third inning sandwiched in-between with RBIs from Cook (1), Hurst (2) and Kaddatz (1).

Boyle allowed just one hit in her four innings of work with six strikeouts against one walk.  Aguilar worked a scoreless inning in relief, allowing one hit with two strikeouts.

Game 2: USF 23, Mount Mary 0
Sixteen different Saints saw action in Game 2 with ten of those notching hits and nine driving in at least one run.  Five of those players also had multiple hits, while eight drove in multiple runs. 

Saldana (3 RBIs) and Schofield (3 RBIs) led in the hit department with their four hits apiece, while Hurst drove home five RBIs off her three base hits.  Included was a two-run home run to straightaway centerfield in USF's eleven-run second inning.

The Saints also scored four runs in the first inning, three in the second and five in the fourth en route to finishing the contest with 20 hits and 23 total RBIs.

Viar (3 RBIs) and Landeros (2 RBIs) both recorded a pair of hits with Gray (2 RBIs), Cook (2 RBIs), Koontz (2 RBIs), Anderson (1 RBI), Smardo all collecting one.

Koontz's two RBIs came on her deep home run over the right field wall in the second inning.

Schofield and Aguilar combined to allow just four hits in the circle.  Schofield went the first four innings allowing two hits with five strikeouts before Aguilar struck out one of the five batters she faced in the fifth inning.

Up Next
The Saints will travel to Milwaukee, Wis. tomorrow (April 8) to face Mount Mary in its final contest of the teams' three-game series.  First pitch is scheduled for 12 pm at Maslowski Glendale Community Park.

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