CLERMONT, Fla. – After a tough day on Tuesday, Notre Dame College bounced back on Thursday with a pair of wins. The Falcons' pitchers, Grace Fisher and Allison Weilnau, combined for 14 innings, zero runs allowed and 13 strikeouts. NDC defeated Northwood University, 2-0, and Bemidji State University, 3-0.
 
All of the scoring in the first game of the day, came in the fifth inning. When the Falcons stepped up to the plate in the bottom half of that inning, freshman Lindsay Breuer drew a walk and freshman Danielle Fick reached on a fielder's choice. Junior Katelyn DeWeese reached first on a bunt and then sophomore Emma Gumont singled to load the bases. Sophomore Ella Collinsworth came up clutch with a two-run single to left field.
 
Collinsworth led the team with two hits in the game.
 
Northwood had baserunners throughout the game, totaling seven hits, four walks and two batters hit by a pitch, but could not get a runner across the plate. To start the third inning, Northwood led off with a double and a walk, but the next three hitters were put down in order. Once again, Haley Frank started the fifth inning with a double, but did not score. In the sixth, with one out and runners on first and second base, Gianna Fantin singled to right, but was thrown out trying to reach second base and then a runner was thrown out at home, on the same play. They also had bases loaded in the top of the seventh inning and could not score.
 
Fisher walked the tightrope several times, but did not allow a run. She picked up her third win of the season for the Falcons, striking out four hitters in a complete game shutout.
                        
Notre Dame spread out its scoring through the second game. With one out in the top of the first inning, DeWeese walked and stole second. Gumont knocked a run in with an RBI single.
 
With two out in the second inning, Breuer singled and then Fick doubled to left field to put runners on second and third base, but the Falcons did not score. However, they did push another run across the plate in the third inning. Gumont reached on an error to lead off the frame. With two out, she stole second base and scored on a double by junior Meadow Odum.
 
In the fifth inning, Gumont got on base, again, with a single to center field. She moved to second on a groundout and came home on an RBI single by Odum.
 
Odum tied her career-high with two RBI.
 
In the circle, Weilnau grabbed her third win of the year, striking out nine in the complete game shutout. She allowed just four hits in the game and, between the third inning and sixth inning, she set down 12 consecutive hitters.
 
Entering Thursday's game, Bemidji State had won five of its last six games in Florida, including back-to-back contests scoring at least nine runs.
 
Friday will be the Falcons' final day in Florida. NDC will take on Millersville University, at 11:30 a.m., and No. 8 Grand Valley State University, at 2 p.m.