BOX SCORE 1 | BOX SCORE 2 CLERMONT, Fla. – The University of New Haven softball team resumed action at the NTC Spring Games on Wednesday, taking a 5-2 win from Minnesota State-Moorhead before dropping a 2-1 decision to Minot State in the day's second contest. After the split, the Chargers move to 6-2 on the season.
 
Lindsey Couturier (Dighton, Mass./Dighton Rehoboth Regional) and Brooke Fisher (Erial, N.J./Camden Catholic) each homered in the win over the Dragons. Fisher's solo shot knotted the game at 2-2, while Couturier's third long ball of the season capped the scoring in the 5-2 victory.
 
Nicole King (Front Royal, Va./Warren County) went the distance in the circle to improve to 4-0. The sophomore ceded two runs on three hits and three walks while racking up a season-best 11 strikeouts.
 
Meghan Chamoff (Roslyn Heights, N.Y./Herricks) started the scoring with an RBI single in the top of the fourth inning. After Fisher's roundtripper erased a 2-1 deficit in the fifth, Erika Williams (Oneida, N.Y./Oneida) raced home with an unearned run – having replaced Courtney Reed (Lower Burrell, Pa./Burrell) at second base after a double – to plate the game-winning tally. Couturier's homer provided all of the insurance that King would need to cap the complete-game victory.
 
Unearned runs accounted for all of the scoring in the nightcap. Victoria Cabral (New Britain, Conn./Miss Porter's School / Hofstra University) worked a complete game and took the hard-luck loss, allowing two unearned tallies on six hits and three walks while striking out a career-high 10 batters to fall to 2-2.
 
The Chargers were stifled by the Beavers' Mindy Lorimor, who surrendered only one unearned run to earn the win.
 
New Haven scored the game's first run in the bottom of the sixth inning. After Brandy Dianno (Philadelphia, Pa./Nazareth Academy) reached on an error and stole second, Fisher cashed in on the RBI opportunity with a two-out single to stake the Chargers to a 1-0 lead.
 
However, Minot State would strike in its last at-bat to take the one-run win. Jen Dixon notched the game-winning hit – a two-out, two-run double after an error extended the frame.
 
Both of the Chargers' losses this spring have come by scores of 2-1. The Blue and Gold have averaged 6.5 runs per contest in their six victories in 2014.
 
New Haven wraps up action in Florida tomorrow with back-to-back non-region outings against Minnesota-Crookston and Sioux Falls beginning at 4 p.m. The Chargers will return home to play their home and Northeast-10 opener when Bentley visits the UNH Softball Field for a noon doubleheader on Saturday, March 22.