Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 WINTER HAVEN, Fla. --- The Minnesota State softball team continued its impressive run at the Rebel Spring Games, claiming its seventh and eighth-straight victories over Glenville State (8-7) and Lees-McRae (9-2). With the wins, MSU improves to 10-4 on the season and an unblemished 8-0 at the games.

The Pioneers wasted no time posting four runs in the top of the first inning, opening a 4-0 lead with junior Brittany Lauterbach in the circle. MSU was unable to answer as Glenville sat the top of the Mavericks' batting order with three-straight outs.

Glenville notched another run in the top of the second inning and once again held MSU scoreless in the second inning, pushing the Pioneer lead to 5-0 after two complete innings.

The Mavericks held the Pioneers scoreless in the third inning and senior Lindsay Erickson recorded a two-run single, scoring senior Samantha Holien and sophomore Karli DesLauries cutting the Glenville lead to 5-2 after the third inning.

MSU posted two additional runs in the bottom of the fourth inning as sophomore Laura Milligan and senior Samantha Holien were each credited with an RBI in the frame, as freshman Ashley Thell and Milligan each made their way across home plate, cutting the Pioneers' lead to 5-4 heading into the fifth inning.

The Pioneers responded with two runs in the top of the fifth inning, pushing their lead to three, 7-4. The Glenville defense held MSU scoreless in the bottom of the inning taking a three run lead into the final two innings of play.

That is when the Mavericks started their comeback, holding the Pioneers scoreless in the top half of the sixth inning before scoring four runs in the bottom half of the frame. Junior Chelsea Riordan, Thell, DesLauries and Holien all recorded runs.
Erickson paced the Mavericks with four RBI on three hits, while Holien finished with two runs on three hits including two RBI.

Freshman Coley Ries went 2.2 innings, allowing two hits but did not surrender a run and fanned six batters to improve to 4-1 on the season.

In its second contest of the day, MSU scored five runs in the first two innings as Holien, Thell, freshman Tatum Klien and senior Kelly Wood all made their way across the dish.

The Bobcats responded with one run in the bottom of the second inning before the Mavericks pushed their lead to 6-1 after four complete innings. Lees-McRae and MSU traded runs in the fifth inning before Erickson and Holien each scored in the sixth inning pushing the MSU lead to 9-2.

Holien once again paced the Mavericks at the dish, scoring three runs on three hits with three RBI including a homerun in the fourth inning. Freshman Samanath Buhmann earned her first collegiate win, she went 2.1 innings and surrendered one run on three hits.

MSU returns to the diamond as it faces Hillsdale (8:00 a.m. CST) and Southern Indiana (10:00 a.m. CST) in its second-to-last day of the Rebel Spring Games.