CLERMONT, Fla.--The Hood College softball team (4-6) went 1-2 in a busy day of action at the National Training Center Spring Games in Clermont, Fla., Tuesday.

The Blazers lost 9-3 to UMass-Boston and 5-2 to SUNY Plattsburgh but ended the day on a high note by ousting Anna Maria College, 5-2.

In the first game against the Beacons, Kelly Gafner and Kali Ball each had two hits for the Blazers. With one out in the third, Casey Dunn singled and Gafner reached on a fielder's choice. After Caity Battey flew out to center, Ball singled to right field to cut the lead to 5-2. Then in the sixth, Ball tripled and came around to score on Jackie Wenzel's sacrifice fly to centerfield.

The Blazers then took on the SUNY Plattsburgh Cardinals in game number two. Plattsburgh scored five unearned runs in the third but Jennifer Rutherford held the Cardinals scoreless the rest of the game. She allowed 11 hits, struck out six batters and walked one. The Blazers rallied for two runs in the seventh when Emalie Stroup singled with one out. Two batters later, Amy Hagerdon doubled home Stroup for the first run and Dunn singled in Hagerdon for the other run. Kelly Gafner had two hits to lead the offense.

In Hood's win over the Amcats, the Blazers put up single runs in every inning except the first as Dunn, Battey and Katie Jenkins each had multi-hit games. Despite allowing two first-inning runs, Battey settled in the rest of the way to secure the win in the circle with an eight-strikeout effort.

Jenkins drove in Taylor Grimmell with a sac fly in the second and the Blazers tied the game in the third when Dunn scored on an error by the Anna Maria shortstop. Jenkins came around to score the go-ahead run in the fourth on an RBI-double by Dunn. Battey drilled a triple to lead off the fifth and came around to plate the Blazers' fourth run of the game on an RBI-groundout by Ball. Jackie Yurchak doubled to start the sixth and scampered home on a wild pitch for the final margin.

In the top of the seventh, Battey worked out of a jam as the Amcats had the potential tying run at the plate with only one out after Marissa McCann singled and Justine Lalonde walked. Nichole Lowe moved the runners up to second and third with a sacrifice back to Battey, but Grimmell squeezed a popup by Tabitha Ruggeri at third to end the threat.

The Blazers are off Wednesday before returning to the diamond Thursday against Mount Ida at 8:30 a.m. and Macalester at 10:30 a.m.