DELAND, Fla. — Ole Miss softball continued its streak of run-rule victories, topping Colgate, 14-2, and No. 23 South Florida, 8-0, Friday in day one of the Hatter Invitational at Patricia Wilson Field.

The Rebels (9-2) have now defeated six-straight opponents in mercy-rule fashion, and also extend their streak of eight-plus runs scored to eight games. During those last eight games, Ole Miss has totaled 92 runs and given up just 22.

In Friday’s action in Florida, the pitching staff was nearly lights out, giving up just two combined earned runs off seven hits, as Kaitlin Lee and Alyssa Clayton both earned wins with no runs allowed. The offense finished with five extra-base hits, 18 RBI, and drew 16 walks in the two wins.

GAME 1 

For the fifth-straight game, Ole Miss posted a double-digit run total. The Rebels jumped all over the Raiders in the first two innings, totaling their eighth and ninth time this season scoring at least five runs in a frame.

Ole Miss sent 12 batters to the plate in the first inning, and eight in the second, as all 19 position players saw the field in game one. Elantra Cox drew the first of five walks in the inning and immediately stole second, before Kylan Becker also reached on a walk. After a fielder’s choice from Newton County High School alumna Ashton Lampton that moved both runners up, Alyssa Gonzalez also walked, then Miranda Strother punched a sacrifice fly to left scoring Becker giving the Rebels a 1-0 lead.

Brittany Finney then walked, as did Courtney Syrett, which scored Lampton to make it 2-0, before Kaylee Horton delivered a 2-RBI double down the line in left scoring a pair putting Ole Miss up 4-0. Dylinn Stancil followed with the second of three-straight doubles for two RBI, before Elantra Cox tallied the third with a knock down the right field line making it 7-0. Becker, in her second at-bat of the frame, drove in Stancil off an RBI single up the middle, capping the eight-run frame.

Gonzalez then led off the second with a left, before Paige McKinney pinch ran for her and stole second. After Strother walked, Finney rolled a fielder’s choice to third as McKinney was tagged out. Syrett then walk, as did Horton, which drove in the ninth run for her third RBI of the contest. In the next at-bat, Stancil reached on an error at second, before the runners got caught in a rundown, forcing another Colgate error which scored all the runners and made it 13-0.

The Rebels went on to score one more in the third when pinch-hitter Kennedy Legg roped an RBI single to right.

In the circle, junior Kaitlin Lee earned the win after not allowing a hit through three innings of work. She allowed her first baserunner in the home half of the third on a two-out walk, before Elisha Jahnke entered to finish it out with the final two innings of work. She gave up two runs off one walk and three hits.

Grayce Majam, who pinch-hit in the third inning, was the only Rebel to finish with two hits, as Horton and Stancil’s three RBI each led the way. The pair, as well as Finney and Syrett, all scored twice, as 10 different Rebels drew a walk.

GAME 2

In the sixth-straight win in run rule fashion, Clayton controlled the game in the circle, and the Rebel bats strung together nine hits to shut out the Bulls.

Ole Miss posted a 3-run first thanks to an RBI groundout from Gonzalez, a Strother infield single, and hard double to right-center from Finney that made it 3-0. In the next half, the Bulls’ leadoff hitter reached on an error, but three-straight putouts from Clayton ended any threat holding the 3-0 lead.

The Rebels again posted three in the second when Stancil and Cox both reached on infield singles, before a passed ball moved them up. From there, Lampton punched a bases-clearing double down the line in left that scored three, increasing the advantage to 6-0.

Ole Miss added another in the fourth when Lampton drew a bases-loaded walk, tying her career high in RBI with four. The Bulls put two on in their half of the fifth after a walk and infield hit, but Clayton worked a double play to escape the inning.

USF went on to load the bases in the sixth, but Becker made an outstanding play in right, ranging back to save at least two runs on a hard line drive near the wall.

Ole Miss completed the mercy-rule win in the sixth when the Bulls intentionally walked two to setup a bases loaded situation, before Cox scored on a wild pitch ending the contest.

Cox, Lampton and Horton all finished 2-for-3, while Lampton drove in four of the eight runs. Cox scored three and also drew two walks.

Clayton went the full six innings with just four hits allowed, three walks and four strikeouts, improving to 3-0 in the circle.