ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Ithaca College softball team (18-8) swept a doubleheader from visiting King's College (21-5) on Wednesday afternoon to help the program's head coach reach a significant milestone. The Bombers won the first game 6-5 in eight innings and the second game 7-3. With the win in the first game, head coach Deb Pallozzi earned her 700th career coaching victory at Ithaca. She is just the 10th coach in NCAA Division III history to hit the 700 wins mark, as she has 706 overall victories, and just the sixth coach to win 700 games at the same school.

The Bombers return to conference play this weekend with a Saturday doubleheader at Utica and a Sunday doubleheader at home against Elmira.

Ithaca 6, King's 5 (8 inn.) | Box Score and Play-by-Play

The Bombers rallied from a five-run deficit to get the win. Ithaca started its rally in the bottom of the fifth inning when second baseman Julianne Vincent hit a deep fly ball to the left-center gap that fell between the outfielders and was deflected away as they collided. The bases were loaded, and those three runners in addition to Vincent all scored on the inside-the-park grand slam.

Ithaca tied the score in the bottom of the seventh after left fielder Rachel Dell'Orto led off the inning with a single. Jenna Tambasco entered the game as a pinch runner and was bunted to second base. Pinch hitter Carianne D'Alessandro came through with an RBI single to right field to bring in Tambasco.

The Bombers won it in the eighth inning when Vincent delivered her fifth RBI of the game to bring in Kelly Robichaud, who reached on an error earlier in the inning.

Vincent, Robichaud, Dell'Orto and Sydney Folk all had two hits each in the game. Pitcher Laura Quicker picked up the win in the circle in relief of Sam Bender. Quicker allowed two unearned runs over seven innings of work with one strikeout.

Ithaca 7, King's 3 | Box Score and Play-by-Play

Ithaca got started early in the second game as the first three batters reached in the bottom of the first inning and came in to score on a grand slam by Sydney Folk over the right-field fence. Ithaca added two runs in the fourth, one of which came on a solo home run by Rachel Dell'Orto, her first of the season. Another run crossed in the fifth as Dell'Orto singled to bring home Julianne Vincent.

Freshman pitcher Allison Macari worked the complete-game victory, her seventh of the season. She allowed three runs on 10 hits with six strikeouts.

The Bombers had 13 hits in the game, including three from Jennifer Biondi and three from Folk. Dell'Orto and Molly O'Donnell had two hits each.

ABOUT DEB PALLOZZI

Pallozzi is in her 25th season at Ithaca, and her 27th season overall as a Division III head coach. She is a member of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame, the Ithaca College Athletics Hall of Fame and the Cortland C-Club Hall of Fame. She led the Bombers to a national championship in 2002, has been Empire 8 Coach of the Year five times and her staff has been NFCA Northeast Region Coaching Staff of the Year four times.