BABSON PARK, Fla. - The Embry-Riddle softball team experienced some growing pains on Thursday afternoon in a Sun Conference doubleheader against Webber International (15-11, 5-1), as the first-year team committed seven errors that led to 10 unearned runs for the Warriors as the defending league champions took both games, 7-4 and 14-6. Embry-Riddle (8-18, 3-3) will travel to Thomas (Ga.) on Apr. 6 for another conference doubleheader.

Game 1
Ashley Quigley went the distance for the Warriors in the opener, allowing just six hits and four runs (three earned) en route to the 7-4 victory. Robi Zimmerman and Alexis Estrada combined to surrender 10 hits and seven runs (four earned) against the Warriors.

Zimmerman and Quigley kept each other's team scoreless through the first two frames, but the Warriors got on the board first with an unearned run in the home-half of the third when Michelle Morreale reached on a throwing error to begin the inning and scored on Maureen Sandidge's RBI single up the middle.

WIU chipped on a pair of unearned runs in the fourth to take a 3-0 lead, but the visitors battled back with a four-spot in the fifth to take a 4-3 lead.

Jessica Osteen singled up the middle to break up Quigley's no-hit bid, moving to second on a fielding error by the Warrior centerfielder. Dee Espinosa doubled to center on the first pitch of her at-bat, scoring Osteen to cut  the lead to 3-1. Savannah Smith drew a two-out walk before Sarah Huey tripled down the left field line to score two runs before scoring on Zimmerman's batted ball, giving the Eagles a one-run advantage.

Webber International answered the Blue and Gold rally with one of its own in the last of the fifth, plating four runs on four hits to retake a 7-4 lead, one that would hold up for the final tally.

The Eagles managed three hits in the sixth and seventh, but couldn't manage to push any runners across the plate before Quigley ended the game with a strikeout.

Six different Eagles collected hits,with Huey and Espinosa driving in RBIs for the Blue and Gold.

Game 2
The second game of Thursday's twin bill began with an offensive awakening for the Eagles as ERAU took a 3-0 lead into the bottom of the second. But it would not hold up as WIU pounded out 18 hits and benefitted from five Eagle errors to claim the run-rule shortened 14-6 win.

Haleigh Lewis brought in two Eagle runs in the first against Webber International starter Kim Martin on a single up the middle that plated Espinosa and Huey after they reached base via a walk and base hit respectively.

Estrada, who started in the circle for the Blue and Gold, stranded two Warriors in the home-half of the first to send her team back to the plate where they added a run on an Espinosa single, scoring Melanie Lee from third.

The Warriors got four runs in the bottom of the second, including two on Jessica Lanci's double to left.

The hosts added a run in the third to extend their lead to 5-3, but the Eagles answered with a run of their own in the next half-inning as Jori Walan scored on Samantha Smith's single and subsequent throwing error by the centerfielder.

Webber International pushed its lead to 8-4 in the fourth with a trio of runs thanks to three hits and two Eagle miscues and the hosts chased Estrada from the game in the fifth when Jessica McCellan began the frame with a double to left center. Zimmerman relieved Estrada and was able to minimize the damage, allowing just one run to score in the inning.

Embry-Riddle got two runs back in the top of the sixth when Ariel Brayer doubled and scored on an error before Samantha Smith plated Walen later in the inning, cutting the Eagle deficit to 9-6.

Two errors in the sixth were the catalyst for five Warrior runs in the inning, and when two Warriors scored unearned runs on a Sandidge dingle to center, the game was called due to the eight-run mercy rule, 14-6.

Estrada moved to 6-6 overall with the loss while Espinosa, Huey and Samantha Smith all picked up a pair of hits and Espinosa, Samantha Smith and Huey recording RBIs.