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CLERMONT, Fla. (March 20, 2015)­– Traveling down to Florida to kick off the season, the North Central College softball team snatched its first four wins against competitors in the Dot Richardson Spring Games on Thursday and Friday to remain undefeated.

On Thursday, the Cardinals (4-0, CCIW 0-0) opened the season against Utica College getting a huge 12-1 win over the Pioneers with pitcher Andrea Starr capturing the win.

Kayla Antle ran in three of those runs off of two hits with two RBI. Kiersten Tinkoff also led the Cardinals with three hits and one RBI.

In game two, North Central defeated the University of Wisconsin-Stout 5-4 after being down 4-1 in the fourth inning.

At the bottom of the fifth, Antle snatched an inside the park home run, getting four RBI and scoring in Olivia Goethals, Corrine Rowe and Brooke Kehoe to take the lead and win the game.

On Friday, the Cardinals started action against the No.5 ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and grabbed a 5-4 victory to advance to 3-0.

Whitewater took the lead in the first inning, but North Central came back in the second with a three-run homer by Rowe who got in Kehoe and Trojniar.

The Warhawks tied it up with two runs in the fourth and one in the seventh, but it was Tinkoff's two-run homer in the bottom of the inning that pushed the Cardinals ahead 5-4 for the final.

In game two on Friday, North Central battled it out with No.22 ranked Anderson University and took the win to remain undefeated.

Rowe started things off for the Cardinals in the fourth with a single that pushed in Carly Trenhaile and Amanda Walker.

With the bases loaded later on, Antle was hit by a pitch and the Cardinals gained another run making it 3-0.

In the fifth, it was Rowe's grand slam that secured the triumph for North Central bringing the final to 7-0.

North Central continues the Dot Richardson Spring Games on Saturday taking on Bethel University at 11 a.m. (ET) and No.22 ranked Rochester Institute of Technology at 1 p.m. (ET).