Frederick, MD - No. 16 Messiah College won both games at Hood College on Saturday afternoon, 4-0 and 10-6, to move to 10-0 in the MAC Commonwealth. The wins came just two days after the Falcons saw their 17-game win streak come to an end at Eastern Mennonite.

Now at 26-3 overall, the Falcons will at Shenandoah University on Wednesday, Apr. 20 at 5:00 p.m.

Game One - Messiah 4, Hood 0
Amanda Jones and Sydney Boreman each homered to help the Falcons to a 4-0 shutout of the Blazers. Courtney Allen collected the win with a dominant performance on the mound as she went the distance and allowed eight hits against nine strikeouts.

Jones' longball led off the second inning off to give the Falcons an early 1-0 advantage. It would prove to be all the Falcons needed, but they doubled their advantage in the fourth when Boreman brought home Erin Cressman with a two-out single. Cressman had doubled earlier in the frame for her only hit in Game One.

In the seventh inning Boreman broke the game open with a two-run bomb that chased a leadoff single from Amber Bingaman. A few mintues later Allen put the Blazers down in order in their final at-bat to seal the win.

Though the Blazers did not score, they did leave 10 runners on base. In the third inning Allen coaxed a fly out to centerfield to leave the bases loaded, and Hood left three runners on base once again in the sixth. In that frame, when the score was still just 2-0, three-straight singles with one out put Hood in prime position to get on the board. But Allen recovered with a strikeout for the second out, and she then induced a groundball to second to escape damage.

Carrie Fix (single, double), Jones, Bingaman, and Cressman each collected two hits.

Game Two - Messiah 10, Hood 6
Erin Cressman hit a two-run homerun in the fourth and also collected a crucial RBI double in the sixth to help Messiah come back from multiple deficits in a 10-6 win. Madelyn Yannetti collected the win with three innings of relief and the Falcons knocked out a season-high 15 hits in a thrilling victory.

The Falcons went down 1-0 in the first inning when an outfield error on a two-out single allowed a runner to round third and score. The Falcons were quiet in their early attempts to get the run back, as they collected just two hits through the first three innings. But in the fourth inning they exploded for four runs, with Brooke Pompeo's leadoff double setting the table. After a walk by alen put two runners on, Becky Notte singled to drive in both runners and make it 2-1 in favor of Messiah. Amanda Jones popped up for the first out, but Cressman drilled a two-run shot over the fence to put Messiah up 4-1.

The home run by Cressman tied the Messiah program single-season record of eight, previously set by Jessica DeBoer in 2007.

The lead was short-lived, however, as Hood came right back with a four-run frame of their own. The big blow in the bottom of the fourth was a three-run homerun by Jasmine Webster that put Hood up 5-4.

Undeterred, Messiah came right back in the fifth and tied the game off a single by Courtney Allen. Then, in the sixth, Messiah tacked on three runs to go ahead for good. Jones single and stole second to leadoff the inning, and Cressman brought her around with a long double. After a sac bunt by Bingaman put Cressman on third, Sydney Boreman singled to bring Cressman across homeplate for a 7-5 lead. Two batters later an error by the second baseman allowed a third run to come in.

Messiah answered a sixth-inning run from Hood with two more runs in the seventh as they went on to the 10-6 win. 

Cressman finished with three hits and three RBI, and did Becky Notte also finished with three hits. Carrie Fix and Boreman each tallied two hits of their own as the Falcons' offense proved too much for Hood to hold down.

Fix started and went four innings for Messiah. She was charged with four earned runs on seven hits. Yannetti allowed five hits but gave up just a single earned run.