OSCEOLA, Fla. (March 16) -- Hendrix College outscored its opponents 17-0 and improved to 5-1 at the Rebel Spring Games with a pair of victories on Tuesday afternoon.  The Warriors posted a 9-0 win over Nazareth College in the opener and then earned an 8-0 mercy run win over Framingham State University in the night cap.

Hendrix improves to 10-6 overall and has won 10 of its last 12 contests.  The Warriors will take Wednesday off for some fun in the sun and then finish the road trip against Utica College and Montclair State University on Thursday.

Hendrix first year RHP Ashley Halbert (Crandall, Texas/H.S.) allowed just three hits and two free passes with seven strikeouts over 6.0 innings to improve to 4-0 on the year.  Halbert gave up just one hit in the first four frames and retired the side in the third.

The Warriors jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the third inning on a one-run single from sophomore LF Trace Grinnell (Searcy, Ark./Izard Cty. Consolidated), a one-run double from junior 1B Jaclyn Herrera (Mount Vernon, Texas/H.S.) and two unearned runs.

Hendrix exploded for five runs in its last at bat on four hits and one error.  Sophomore 3B Liz Vaughan (Garland, Texas/Greenhill H.S.) highlighted the seventh with a two-run single to center field.

Herrera (pictured) tossed a one-hitter with four strikeouts against Framingham State for her third victory of the year.  The Rams’ lone hit came from their first batter of the game, a single to center field.  Herrera retired the next 12 batters she faced until she walked the leadoff batter in the fifth inning.

The Warriors lit up the scoreboard in the first inning when first year SS Ryan Bracken (Indianola, Iowa/H.S.) drove in her eighth run of the year on a double to left center and eventually crossed the plate on an error.

Hendrix made it 6-0 with four runs on five hits and an error in the third inning.  Senior C Christina Byler (Little Rock, Ark./Pulaski Academy) highlighted the big inning with her first homer of the season, a two-run shot.  Bracken stole home and sophomore 2B Sydney Selby (Monticello, Ark./H.S.) crossed the plate on an error.

The Warriors stretched the gap to 8-0 in the fourth when Vaughan doubled in junior DP Ellen Burr (Jacksonville, Ark./H.S.) for her second run of the game and Byler pushed her second run across with a single through the left side to score junior PR Frances Goodrich (Bentonville, Ark./H.S.).

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