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CLERMONT, Fla. - The Otterbein University softball team has now won six-straight games to begin the season after adding four wins to its total between Sunday and Monday.

Otterbein will enjoy a day off on Tuesday before facing Cabrini (Pa.) and Immaculata (Pa.) on Wednesday. Start times are scheduled for 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., respectively.

Game 3 vs. York (Pa.)

Sophomore pitcher Rachael Owens tossed a no-hitter against York on Sunday morning, striking out nine batters and walking just one in an 11-0 victory. Owens also went 2-for-3 at the dish, scoring a pair of runs.

Sophomore Bailey McElwain had huge game going 3-for-4 at the plate, including a triple, with four runs batted-in and two runs scored. Classmate Savannah Sarkine also posted two hits, driving in a run and scoring one. The Cardinals totaled 13 hits, stealing one base, as eight players connected for one or more hits in the game.

Game 4 vs. Hanover (Ind.)

Freshman pitcher Gabby Johnson picked up her second career victory in game two on Sunday, playing a vital role in the circle to help defeat Hanover, 4-3, in eight innings.

Otterbein fell behind 3-0 in the first inning before a double by Owens in the second inning drove in sophomore Megan Garner. McElwain stepped to the plate the next inning and smacked her first home run of the season on a shot to left field, pulling the Cards to within a run of the Panthers.

Sophomore Maddie Flasco tied the game at three apiece in the fifth inning, singling to left field and scoring Sarkine. Johnson got out of the bottom of the seventh inning with a strikeout, stranding two Panther runners.

The international rule for extra innings in softball went into effect in the eighth inning, as Flasco recorded the final out of the seventh for the Cards and was in turn placed on second base to begin the extra frame.

McElwain promptly doubled in Flasco in the team's first at-bat of the inning, giving the Cards a 4-3 advantage. Johnson loaded the bases full of Panthers in the bottom half of the inning, but managed to pitch out of the jam by forcing two pop-ups and a flyout.

McElwain and Owens each went 2-for-4 in the game, combining for three of the four Cardinal runs. Otterbein outhit Hanover, 8-4.

Game 5 vs. Wartburg (Iowa)

The Cardinals picked up their fifth-straight win on Monday afternoon, taking down Wartburg, 2-1. The Knights were first to ink the scoreboard in the first inning, singling on the first at-bat of the game and pushing the runner across the plate with one out.

Owens pitched well again, going the distance in seven innings striking out seven batters. The Cards posted five hits through four innings of play, before junior Chey Rowe led the bottom of the fifth inning off with a single and stolen base.

McElwain proved to be clutch again, blasting a two out, two-run homer over the right center field fence to give the Cards a 2-1 lead. Owens allowed just two hits over the remaining two innings, including the seventh inning in which McElwain threw out a Wartburg runner stealing second base.

Game 6 vs. Rose-Hulman

Otterbein picked up another shutout victory in the night cap on Monday, defeating Rose-Hulman, 3-0. The Cardinals totaled 10 hits in the game to the Fightin' Engieneers' five, as Johnson tossed the first shutout of her collegiate career.

Flasco drove in Riggs for the initial Cardinal run in the top of the third inning, before the team waited four innings until it tallied a pair of runs on a single by Rowe in the seventh. Riggs and Sarkine scored on the play.

Eight different players for Otterbein recorded one or more hits on the night, with Owens, Riggs and freshman Alyson Shaw each going 2-for-3 at the plate. The win was also the 100th in the career of head coach Christine Steines.