Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 BARTOW, Florida - The American International College softball team walked off 6-5 winners in eight frames against Clarion University and then followed with a 7-3 victory over Edinboro University in Bartow, Florida on Tuesday, March 10.

AIC is now 2-4 overall.

The Golden Eagles jumped on AIC early, with four hits and a walk in the opening frame to score two runs, but AIC flipped the script in the home half. Isabel Kahli Robinson hit an infield single and then stole second. Nevaeh Trejo then singled, and Brooklyn Cividanes and Julia Krijgsman each added base hits, driving in a run each. Two batters later, Morgan Bemont singled to load the bases, and Lauryn Ramalho walked to push Krijgsman home, and Jilien Ayala smacked a fly to right that pushed in Mikayla Doucette from second. 

AIC's lead shrank back to one in the second; the Golden Eagles took advantage of a two-out rally with a hit, an error, a wild pitch, and another hit to score a run, though Ayala's throw in ultimately ended the inning at third base.

The Golden Eagles then tied the game in the third, with back-to-back two-out doubles; they then added a hit and had two runners in scoring position, but Krijgsman induced a groundout to end the frame. 

The rest of regulation went by scoreless. In the eighth, the international tiebreaker came into effect and the Golden Eagles took advantage with a fly ball and a double. A walk and wild pitch put two runners on with one out, but Trinity LaValley, who had come in a batter prior, snared a liner up the middle and fired to third for a double play to negate the threat.

AIC needed at least one, and after a sacrifice bunt attempt failed, Krijgsman hit a grounder at short. The Clarion defender looked to third, and after realizing there was no play to be made on Trejo, turned and threw at first, but the throw was off line, and Trejo scored as a result. 

With that run across, the Yellow Jackets shifted focus from trying to tie the game to trying to win it. Brianna Salazar came on to pinch run and swiped third. Doucette walked, and Bemont came to the plate. She smashed the ball to center field for her third hit, scoring Salazar and winning the game. 

Krijgsman allowed three earned runs of five total in 7.1 innings; LaValley ended as the pitcher of record, with one walk but no hits in 0.2 innings for her first win of 2026.

As in the opener, AIC allowed two runs in the first inning of the Edinboro matchup; the Fighting Scots, on the strength of three hits and a walk, were able to take an early lead.

Just as quickly, AIC grabbed the lead back. Marilyn Augusta lined a triple into the right-center gap, and Ayala drove her home with a flare down the right field line. Ramalho then hit a dribbler up the third base line, and the duo pulled off a double steal, with Ayala scoring. Ramalho took third as well as the throw to second ended up in center field.

The Yellow Jackets were not done, either. Belen Benito laid down a squeeze bunt and Ayala beat the throw home, which was additionally off-target and allowed Benito to take second. That proved critical, as Salazar came to the dish next and lined a two-strike pitch up the middle into center, scoring the catcher and giving AIC a 4-2 lead. 

The Fighting Scots were able to score once in the third, but that was the sum of their offensive output, and the Yellow Jackets put them away with a big fourth. Ramalho and Benito led off with back-to-back walks, and Salazar boomed a double off the wall in left-center to score Ramalho. Trejo followed with a single through the right side that brought Benito home, and Salazar scored on an RBI groundout by Cividanes.

That closed the scoring for the game, and AIC completed the sweep of the day with the 7-3 score.

Gabrielle Lambert went the distance for the win, allowing three runs on six hits in the complete game effort; she fanned four and did not allow a hit in the final four innings.

The team closes out its Florida trip on Wednesday, March 11 against Point Park University and Southwest Minnesota State University; those games are slated for 10:00 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. starts.