For the first time since 2007, Kent State’s softball team opened its season at 5-0. Sunday, the Golden Flashes beat Florida Gulf Coast 8-1 in the finale of the FGCU Kickoff Classic.
Sophomore Emily Dobbin, making her collegiate pitching debut, worked out of a first inning bases-loaded jam. She went four innings and gave up one run on four hits. Maddy Grimm hit her second home run of the season.
Akron softball
At the Dot Richardson Invitational in Clermont, Fla., the University of Akron softball team dropped its first five games of the season. Sunday they lost to Morgan State 4-2.