CLERMONT, Fla. -- The Presidents took two-time defending national champion Tufts (Mass.) to extra innings before suffering a 4-1 setback and then rallied for a 14-3 win over Hamilton to close out the Spring Break trip to Florida.

Washington & Jefferson's softball team will head north with a 6-4 overall record and three players batting over .400 through 10 games: Jen Bahm (.485), Sadie Marak (.452) and Chalese Wilson (.407).

Against No. 1-ranked Tufts, W&J faced Allyson Fournier, one of the top Division III athletes in the country and a three-time First Team All-America. She controlled the majority of the game with 19 strikeouts and just one hit surrendered. Emily Watson was right there alongside one of the best pitchers in the country, maintaining a scoreless seven innings before yielding four runs in the top of the eighth. The Jumbos scored four and the Presidents answered back with a run of their own, but it wasn't enough to overtake the reigning champions.

Bahm notched W&J's lone hit, an RBI single in the eighth inning that scored Watson who was placed on second due to international tiebreaker protocol.

The Presidents' bats were alive in the second game, recording 14 runs on 14 hits. The red and black lit the scoreboard in each of the five innings, with one, five, three, two and three, respectively. Four different players totaled multiple hits, led by Marak and Bahm with three hits apiece. Abby Cunningham and Wilson both posted two hits.

Five from W&J had two RBI each: Cunningham, Jamie Smith, Marak, Watson and Bahm.

Krista McCartney earned the complete-game victory, tossing 5.0 innings and allowing five hits and three runs (two earned).

Upon returning north, the Presidents will travel to Marietta for a doubleheader on Wednesday, March 25 at 3:30 p.m.