MELBOURNE, Fla. – Florida Tech softball was determined to keep their hot streak alive as the team welcomed a winless Wilmington club to Nancy Bottge Field. The Panthers did just that as they swept the doubleheader, 10-3 and 5-4.
 
Cheyenne Nelson had the best day at the plate as she went 5-7 with three runs and one RBI. Mikayla Wessel also impressed as the Virginia native went 4-8 with two runs and one RBI. Five different Panthers recorded at least two runs while five had two RBI.
 
Tina Velazquez Rolon had an amazing day in the circle as she picked up a complete-game win and a three-inning save. During her 10.0 innings of work, she allowed only four runs, one earned, on eight hits and sent 11 back to the dugout on strikes.

Jordan Lawlis also put together a solid performance as she got the game one win. During her performance, she went four innings and surrendered three runs on four hits.
 
Florida Tech got out of the gates hot as the team went up 2-0 in the first when Jaden Kline singled to left field and brought Wessel home. In the next at-bat, Ashley Campbell hit a sac fly to right center and got Velazquez Rolon across the bag. The women made it 3-0 in the bottom half of the second as Wilmington's pitcher unleashed a wild pitch and it allowed Rachel Kraak to get home safely.
 
Wilmington momentarily tied it up at 3-3 as they had three cross the plate in the top of the third. However, this did not last long as the Crimson & Gray responded with seven runs in the bottom half of the inning. Ally Carver got the party started as she hit the team's first triple of the season and brought in Victoria Szrom and Kline. Kraak was the next up and she hit a perfect ball that gave Carver enough time to beat the throw at the plate.
 
Katie Maiello made it three straight at-bats with a run as she hit a single through the middle and scored Kraak. This trend continued with Nelson as she hit the second triple of the inning and this got Maiello over home plate. A few batters later, Nelson crossed the bag thanks to a groundout by Velazquez Rolon. Szrom brought the final run of the game across when she singled and scored Wessel.
 
This score of 10-3 held for the rest of the contest as both teams caught fire in the field.
 
Game two did not have such a friendly start for Florida Tech as the Wildcats took advantage of multiple Tech errors and scored three in the top of the first. The Panthers deficit became four in the third as Wilmington had another runner cross the plate.
 
This woke the Crimson and Gray up as they started to mount a comeback. The team's first run came in the bottom of the third thanks to a Wessel single to left center that got Nelson over the plate. In the sixth, Velazquez Rolon made it a 2-4 contest when see hit one over the double-high fence in center field and a bases-loaded walk later in the inning brought the game within one run.
 
However, it looked like the comeback might fall one run short until a two-out rally in the seventh earned Tech two runs. A Kline double got Nelson across for the first run and Campbell hit a laser back toward the pitcher that ricocheted off her glove and into a gap. This gave Campbell time to make it to first and Szrom to cross home plate as the Panthers won, 5-4, in walk-off fashion.
 
Florida Tech will be back in action Saturday, March 7, for its third straight doubleheader. Game one against Georgian Court starts at 1 p.m. ET at Nancy Bottge Field.
 
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