CLERMONT, Fla. - Four pitchers combined to allow just a single run over 14 innings to lead the Trinity College Bantams to a sweep against the Wellesley College Blue (8-0) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineers (3-1) in their season-opening softball games this afternoon.  Trinity will continue its 10-game slate in The Spring Games against Luther and Cobleskill State tomorrow.  Senior C Alex Chambers (East Lyme, Conn.) had a single, a triple, a run, and three RBIs, while sophomore RHP Tiffany Stowers (Burke, Va.) tossed a four-hit shutout and added two hits at the plate in the six-inning victory over the Blue.  Against MIT, first-year Taylor Mikolajczak (John's Creek, Ga.) had a single, a triple, a stolen base, and an RBI for the Bantam offense.

Trinity jumped on Wellesley with five runs in the bottom of the first inning.  Chambers had a two-run triple and rookie Erin Steed (Orland Park, Ill.) added a two-run double in her first college at-bat.  The Bantams started strong again versus the Engineers when Chambers and classmate Maura Keary (Fairfield, Conn.) scored unearned runs on an error in the MIT outfield with two outs in the first inning.  MIT got one back in the third frame, but Trinity scored a insurance run in the fourth on a leadoff single by sophomore Alyssa Gazivoda (Poughquag, N.Y.) and a two-out, run-scoring triple by Mikolajczak.  Junior righty Jordan Stephan (South Orange, N.J.) pitched out of trouble in the second and fourth inning and earned the win with four innings of work with four hits and run one allowed, one strikeout and two walks.  Trinity relievers Erin Girard (Bristol, Conn.) and Maddie Recker (Sayville, N.Y.) were stellar over the final three frames with just three hits and no runs or walks allowed.  Recker collected her first career save.