Franklin softball has shown the ability to score in bunches this spring. During its first two HCAC games of the year at Berea on Saturday, the Grizzlies put that firepower on display again.

After grinding out a 5-1 victory in game one, Franklin steamrolled the Mountaineers in the nightcap by a 17-0 margin.

In game one, the Griz (11-3, 2-0) leaned on the pitching of Lauren Duncan, who fanned nine while spinning a complete-game three-hitter. By the time Duncan yielded her lone run on a solo home run in the fourth inning, her teammates had already spotted her a five-run cushion. Hadley Fuhrman plated Jaylee Fansler with a third-inning single, and the Grizzlies added four runs in the fourth on a two-run single by Kaylee Stewart and RBI hits by Fansler and Liv Staigl.

The nightcap was all Grizzlies.

With the team up 1-0 after Stewart scored on a first-inning error, Franklin hurler Zoey Kugelman stretched out her lead with a three-run double in the second inning and another two-run two-bagger in the third. A couple of Mountaineer errors helped stretch the Franklin lead to 9-0 after three.

The Griz offense sealed the deal with an eight-run fourth. Jasmine Day singled home a pair of runs and Stewart delivered a bases-loaded triple to push the margin to 14. Fuhrman added a sacrifice fly and Ruth Kaiser hit an RBI single before scoring the final run of the game on a Berea error.

That was all more than enough for Kugelman, who limited the Mountaineers to one hit over five innings. She struck out three and walked none.

Franklin returns home Sunday afternoon for a nonconference doubleheader against DePauw. Game one is scheduled for 1 p.m.