WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Cornell softball team opened Spring Break by sweeping a pair of contests at Morgan State on Monday afternoon, knocking off the Bears 12-3 in six innings in the opener followed by a 10-0 triumph in five innings in game two. The sweep gives the Big Red a three-game win streak and improves the team to 7-10 on the season.

Game One
Cornell put crooked numbers up in the second (three runs), fourth (four runs) and sixth (five runs) while piling up 12 hits in the win. Rebecca Kubena went 3-for-4 with three RBI and two runs scored and Clare Feely was 2-for-4 with three driven in in the victory. Both doubled in the win. Jessica Bigbie added two hits and two RBI and Karlie Mellott's sixth-inning single extended her hit streak to 14 games.

Freshman Sierra Stone picked up her first collegiate win in the circle, scattering seven hits without allowing an earned run.

Morgan State scored three times in the first thanks in large part to three Big Red errors to start Cornell's Spring Break trip on shaky ground. In the top half of the second, they turned it around, starting a string of 22 consecutive runs scored in the doubleheader.

Feely's two-run double tied the game after Kubena's single got the Big Red on the board. Two innings later, Cornell took its first lead and edged out to a 7-3 edge. Feely had an RBI single and Emily Weinberg had an RBI on a bases-loaded walk as part of the rally. The Big Red's five-run sixth ended the game early, as both Bigbie and Kubena had two-run singles.

Game Two
Cornell staked itself to a 3-0 lead after four innings, which was plenty for freshman Maddie Orcutt. She posted a career-high seven strikeouts and surrendered just one hit in her first career shutout.

The three runs might have been enough, but it wasn't all they'd get.

The Big Red scored seven runs in the bottom of the fifth to put the game on ice and extend its streak of scoring double digit runs to three games, its most consecutive games of at least 10 runs since April of 2009. The Big Red scored at least 10 runs in a game just once in 2014.

Michiko McGivney's first inning sacrifice fly made it 1-0 and the Big Red plated two more in the fourth on a Megan Murray single and a Leanne Iannucci double. The seventh was highlighted by a two-run single by Murray and a two-run double by Olivia May.

Cornell had 12 hits, with Murray (2-for-3, three RBI) and senior Sophie Giaquinto (2-for-3, two runs) collecting two each.