Potsdam, NY - Rochester showed how it has piled up victories this season on Saturday afternoon when the Yellowjackets came to the Clarkson University Softball team's Scott Field and made the ballpark look small with five home runs in a doubleheader sweep of the Golden Knights, 7-2 and 10-0.

The Golden Knights fell to 16-7 overall and 2-4 in the Liberty League, while the Yellowjackets improved to 20-7 and 6-0 in conference games. Clarkson will look to get back on the winning track tomorrow when it faces RIT at 1:00 pm.

In the first game, the two teams were scoreless through two frames, but Rochester got on the scoreboard first when Sarah Wayson delivered a two-run single in the third inning. In the top of the fourth, Jocelyn Blackshear led off the frame with a solo home run to give the Yellowjackets a 3-0 edge, but Clarkson was able to respond with an unearned run in the bottom half of the inning. Jamie Bridge reached base on an error and advanced to second, then moved up to third on a groundout from Raeanna Dunn. Summer Lancette also put the ball in play to the right side and that was enough for Bridge to finish her turn around the bases.

Two innings later, Rochester's Blackshear once again led off the innings and hit another solo home run to make the score 4-1. The Yellowjackets continued to score runs with a two-out rally as Brittany Grage drove in a run with a double to left-center and then came around on an Elenei Wechsler home run to left for a 7-1 UofR lead. In their last at bats, the Golden Knights broke through with their first hit of the game, though it was just a dead grounder on the first base line that Dunn was able to beat out. That was enough to get the rally started, though, as Dunn was able to score from second base on a dropped fly ball hit by Chelsea Elliott. However, that would be the conclusion of the offense as the game ended 7-2.

Rochester was led by Shelby Corning and Blackshear, each going 3-for-4 at the plate, and Wechsler also was 2-for-4 with a pair of runs and two RBI. Brittany Grage allowed two runs, both unearned, and gave up just one hit an no walks while striking out six. Clarkson's Jamie Bridge suffered her second loss of the season, going seven innings and giving up six earned runs, but striking out nine.

The second game was much like the first in that both teams kept goose eggs on the scoreboard for the first two frames. However, the Jackets found someoffense in the third with a five-run outburst that proved to be more than enough. Grage had a two-run single to start the scoring, while hits from Kayla Kibling, Wayson, and Gabriela Alatorre made it 5-0. In the fourth, Grage hit a two-run homer to make it 7-0, and in the fifth an error allowed one run to come in, but a two-run shot by Alatorre made in a 10-0 Rochester lead.

Corning and Grage each went 2-for-4 in the second game, with Grage driving in four and scoring two more. Wayson was 3-for-3 and Alatorre also was 2-for-3 with three driven in. Wechsler allowed just a single hit by the Knights, but walked five in five innings and struck out just one hitter. For Clarkson, Raeanna Dunn once again delivered the lone hit, singling to left. Katie Pelton took the loss, giving up 11 hits in five frames and striking out three.