CLERMONT, Fla. – History was made on Monday morning as the Wesleyan softball team swept another doubleheader, improving to 10-0 in what is now the best start to a season in team history. The Cardinals opened with a 10-0 win over Smith in five innings and followed with a 6-1 victory over Babson.
 
Wesleyan landed a comfortable win over Smith thanks to and stellar pitching display from Abby Orso G'25 paired with hits from all over the lineup as nine Cardinals recorded at least one hit in the 10-0 win.
 
Isabella Secaira-Cotto '25 doubled to leadoff the 2^nd inning and came around to score on the next at-bat as Cat Palmer '26 lofted an RBI double out to center. Orso then kept her shutout intact despite two runners in scoring position with one out in the top of the 3^rd, as the graduate student got a strikeout and ground out to end the inning, keeping Wesleyan up 1-0.
 
The Cardinals started to pull away in the bottom of the 3^rd when the team plated three runs on three hits. With the bases loaded, a run scored on a wild pitch and Secaira-Cotto followed with another double out to left field, scoring Lizzie Marino '25 and Orso to make it 4-0 Cardinals.
 
After Orso stranded two baserunners again in the 4^th, the Cardinals broke the game wide open with a six-run bottom half with Wesleyan batting around in the inning. Nicole Celi '27 led off with a single to right and Rebecca Cassel-Siskind '26 followed with a double to left. A run came in on a bunt play from Molly Lennon '26 then Marino drove in Cassel-Siskind on an RBI groundout to second. Orso helped her own caused with an RBI triple, extending her hit streak to nine games, before Alexis Amante '26 closed out the scoring with an infield single that plated two runs.
 
Orso worked a scoreless 5^th inning to secure the 10-0 mercy rule win for Wesleyan. She finished with just one hit allowed in a five-inning complete game shutout, improving to 4-0 on the season. Through five appearances, Orso has allowed just eight hits and one earned run in 23 innings of work with 32 strikeouts.
 
Seven of Wesleyan's 10 hits went for extra bases including two doubles from Secaira-Cotto who went 2-for-3 with 2 RBI.
 
Looking for a 10^th straight win to start the year, Wesleyan jumped out to an early lead with two runs in both the 1^st and 2^nd innings. The Cardinals saw the first five batters reach base safely to start the contest, with Palmer coming through with the big hit in the 1^st, a two-run single out to center field that scored Lennon and Marino. Then in the 2^nd inning it was a two out, two-run bomb from Secaira-Cotto that pushed the deficit up to 4-0.
 
Spotted with a four-run lead, Jacelyn Lees '28 had more than enough wiggle room to work yet another masterpiece as the first-year was on her A game once again. Babson managed just one run in the complete game seven-inning start with only one extra-base hit. Over the final three innings, Lees allowed just one baserunner to reach scoring position as the Beavers couldn't get close to threatening the Cardinal lead established after the first two innings.
 
Wesleyan plated two more insurance runs in the 7^th inning as Secaira-Cotto knocked a single, her third hit of the game, out to left and advanced to second on a fielding error. With two outs, Lees came through with a single to right and a throwing error on the play allowed Secaira-Cotto to come around and score from second. Then it was Cassel-Siskind who doubled to right that scored pinch runner Sam Chappell '28 all the way from first, making it 6-1 Cardinals.
 
Lees allowed a leadoff single in the bottom of the 7^th but got the next three batters to pop out, strike out looking, and foul out to first, sealing another Wesleyan win. Lees'
 
Secaira-Cotto went 3-for-3 at the dish with one walk as she reached base safely in six of her seven plate appearances on the day. She added 2 RBI and two runs scored as well as her first homer of the season. Secaira-Cotto's single in the 1st inning was a milestone achievement as the senior became the 23rd player in team history to reach 100 career hits.
 
Wesleyan looks to remain unbeaten and finish the Florida trip 12-0 tomorrow when the Cardinals face Endicott and Keene State.