MELBOURNE, Fla. – Roosevelt split its final two games at the Space Coast Games in Florida on Saturday to finish the week with a 6-4 record in the Sunshine State.

The Lakers began the day with a crazy 7-4 win over Thomas More that featured freshman Rebecca Urbaniak earning her first win while throwing a complete game in her first start. Roosevelt (6-12) then fell 12-0 in five innings to Tiffin to close out the trip.

ROOSEVELT 7, THOMAS MORE 4
Urbaniak showed great poise in her first career start after a tumultuous beginning to the game. The first four batters all reached base against the freshman with the final one clearing the bases with a double to put Thomas More in front 3-0. Urbaniak induced three straight outs to escape, and give the Lakers a chance to respond.

The freshman pitcher helped her own cause in the second inning with a double after Bianca Gallegos reached on an error to put two runners in scoring position. Libby Kreykes drew a walk then Reyna Hyliard hit a sacrifice fly to gain one run back for the Lakers. An error on a Caitlin Williams grounder helped Urbaniak score to cut the deficit to one.

Urbaniak kept the Saints hitless in the bottom of the second and third innings to give the Lakers offense another chance to overturn the deficit. Roosevelt responded with five runs on three hits in the frame with the freshman again helping herself with a single as the second batter in the inning.

Gallegos tied the game on Kreykes' fielder's choice then Urbaniak and Kreykes both scored on passed balls with Ella Dvoracek at the plate. Hyliard scored on an Athena Pomele-Pen groundout then Dvoracek scored on a single from her sister, Brynn, to give Roosevelt a 7-3 lead.

Thomas More did threaten in the fourth inning, but Urbaniak held her nerve and stranded runners on the corners with one out. She breezed through the fifth and sixth frames then in the seventh, she allowed a leadoff single to come around and score but no more. The freshman struck out only one batter in the complete game, scattering seven hits and four runs to earn her first career win as well.

TIFFIN 12, ROOSEVELT 0
The Dragons scored their first three runs with two outs, setting the tone for the run-rule shortened contest. After Kailey Hancock set down the first four batters she faced, two Lakers errors helped put two runners on in the second inning. Hancock was able to get a second out before a double opened the scoring with a pair of runs. She was nearly able to strand a one-out triple on third as well, but a base hit plated a third run for the Dragons.

Tiffin blew open the game in the fourth inning with six runs, only half of which were earned. The Dragons then tacked on three more in the top of the fifth, with only five of their 12 runs being charged as earned runs.

Roosevelt was limited to just three hits in the game – a Kendall Pearson single in the first, a single from Angelina Diaz in the second and an Urbaniak single in the fourth.

UP NEXT: The Lakers will host former conference rival St. Francis (Ill.) on March 19 in Rosemont, the first game for Roosevelt this season at the stadium in the Parkway Bank Sports Complex.