WINTER HAVEN, FL – Felician softball ignites its spring break at The Spring Games tournament down in Winter Haven, FL. The squad is scheduled to play twelve games in the week and in the first two against Walsh and Franklin Pierce University, the Golden Falcons were handed two losses.

In game one with Walsh, starting pitcher Alexis De La Cruz (San Jacinto, CA) faced 33 batters in 7 innings. In the first, the Golden Falcons were trailing by one, 3-2, after Daisha Howard (Westbury, NY) slammed a two-run homerun. The Cavaliers went on to score in the third and fourth inning for the 4-2 advantage. Felician attempted to break the deficit as they secured a run in the bottom of the fourth but remained scoreless for the remainder of the contest to drop, 6-3.

 Kathryn Steinmetz (Chula Vista, CA) went 2-3 with one run and an RBI and Alexis Velotta (Menifee, CA) and Jaylene Sierra (Jersey City, NJ) went 1-3 with one run each.

Felician started game two on top with a 4-3 lead over Franklin Pierce after one inning when Hannah Ramirez (Carson, CA), Velotta, Howard and Victorie Leon (Sylmar, CA) scored. Despite the hot swings in the first, the green-and-gold would run cold to be shut out for the Ravens to post 8 runs throughout the contest to hand Felician the 11-4 loss.

Velotta went 2-4 with one run and an RBI, Howard went 2-3 with a run and Mia Martinez (Bronx, NY) went 1-3 with an RBI. Starting pitcher, Riley Williams (Corona, CA) pitched four innings and four strikeouts and Mikayla Brown (Las Vegas, NV) pitched the final two with two hits and three walks.

The Golden Falcons are currently 3-4 overall and are looking to improve past .500 after Friday afternoon's games with Lake Erie and Clarion starting at 1:45 pm.