De LAND, Fla. -- The Cornell softball team split day two of the Hatter Invitational on Saturday afternoon, picking up its first win of the season with a 9-2 victory over Bethune-Cookman in the morning before Stetson, the tournament's host, topped Cornell 16-4 in five innings in the nightcap.

Game 1 - Cornell 9, Bethune-Cookman 2
Cornell put up a crooked number in the first inning and cruised to the win behind Lisa Nelson's first career victory. She scatted six hits and allowed just one earned run in evening her record at 1-1. 

Tori Togashi and Olivia Lam each drove in three runs and Togashi, Michiko McGivney and Sarah Murray each had a pair of hits to lead the Big Red offensively. McGivney clubbed two doubles and scored twice.

The Big Red's six-run first inning was the difference, as the home team ont he scoreboard loaded the bases before Togashi hit a two-run single down the rightfield line two batters after Bridgette Rooney opened the scoring with a sacrifice fly. Leading 3-0 and with runners on the corner, Lam got a hold of one and drove it out to left for her first collegiate home run to give Cornell the big early lead.

Bethune-Cookman got solo runs back in the third and fourth, but Cornell plated two in the bottom of the third and one more in the sixth on a run-scoring single by Togashi.

Game 2 - Stetson 16, Cornell 4 (5 innings)
Stetson scored 10 runs in the first inning and collected 14 hits overall as the Hatters improved to 13-3 on the year with a 16-4 win over Cornell on Saturday evening.

Senior Michiko McGivney stayed hot with a 2-for-3 evening and five Big Red players had hits, but it was Stetson's offense that stole the show. The home team used seven hits, two walks, an error and four stolen bases in the bottom half of the first to blow the game wide open. Cornell scored a run in the fourth and three more in the fifth, but a five-run answer in the third extended the lead to 16-0 and all but guaranteed an early stoppage.

A Megan Murray single and a Rebecca Kubena sacrifice fly plated runs in the fifth and Cornell got on the board with an RBI groundout by Jessica Bigbie.