WEEHAWKEN, N.J. - The Ithaca College softball team returned to action for the first time in two weeks and posted back-to-back convincing shutouts at Stevens Institute of Technology on Saturday at the Weehawken Waterfront. The Bombers won the first game 7-0 and the second game 11-0 in a game that was shortened to five innings due to run rule. These were the first Empire 8 games of the season for both teams. Ithaca is 7-5 overall, 2-0 in the conference and Stevens fell to 1-15 overall, 0-2 in the Empire 8. Ithaca returns to action Tuesday in a doubleheader at Cortland beginning at 3 p.m.

Ithaca 7, Stevens 0 | Box Score and Play-by-Play

The Bombers scored three runs in the top of the first and never looked back. They added a single run in the third, two in the fifth and one more in the sixth. The first-inning rally all came with two outs, started with a solo home run from Sydney Folk and was followed later in the inning with a two-run double by Rachel Dell'Orto.

Folk finished the game with three hits, two RBIs and three runs scored. Kelly Robichaud had a double and an RBI, and Jennifer Biondi scored twice with an RBI.

Starting pitcher Sam Bender scattered eight hits in a shutout, her third individual shutout of her career and second of the season. She had two strikeouts and induced 14 groundouts.

Ithaca 11, Stevens 0 (5 inn.) | Box Score and Play-by-Play

Brooke Powers and Julianne Vincent each homered as part of an 11-hit attack that yielded 11 runs in the inning-shortened second game. Casey Gavin was 3-for-3 with two RBIs and two runs scored to spark the Ithaca offense. Powers and Vincent had two hits each.

The Bombers scored one run in the first and added five in the second, highlighted by a three-run homer from Powers.

Allison Macari allowed just three hits and two walks over five innings. She had two strikeouts in her first-career shutout.