GREENVILLE, S.C.—South Dakota improved its win streak to seven games and moved to 8-1 on the young season with two more wins at the Furman Classic Saturday. The Coyotes took down four-time defending NEC champion Saint Francis 2-0 and completed a sweep of Georgetown with a 9-2 win.
 
Kynlee Marquez was the story in game one. The freshman pitcher from Oxford, Nebraska, made her first collegiate start and outdueled Saint Francis' Rachel Marsden, a 14-game winner from a year ago who entered 3-0 on the season. Neither allowed a hit through three innings. Both teams totaled four hits during the game.
 
The Coyotes broke through with two runs on three hits in the fifth. It started with a Gabby Moser lead off single. Lauren Eamiguel faked a bunt and slapped through an open hole on the right side that made it first and third. Tatum Villotta put the ball in play with an 0-2 count to score an RBI groundout and Courtney Wilson made it 2-0 with a two-out single up the middle.
 
Saint Francis (4-4) had runners on second and third with no outs in both the fifth and sixth innings and did not score. Third baseman Aleesia Sainz and first baseman Jadyn DeWitte spun a 5-3-2 double play to get out of the fifth. Eamiguel threw a runner out at home from second base to close the sixth. Clara Edwards relieved Marquez and tossed a 1-2-3 seventh to earn her second save.
 
Marquez (2-0) needed just 55 pitches to get through six innings. She faced three above the minimum with one walk and one strikeout.
 
The nightcap was a rematch of a 7-3 Coyote victory from Friday. Georgetown (2-6) scraped together two runs to take a 2-0 lead through four. But Sainz led off the top of the fifth with a blast to left for her fourth home run of the season and that opened the flood gates against Hoyas pitcher Jordan Tallman.
 
Moser's pinch-hit, two-run single later in the inning gave South Dakota a 3-2 lead and DeWitte belted a grand slam home run two batters later that capped a seven-run fifth. Jordyn Pender tacked on a run-single in the sixth to close out the scoring.
 
Edwards tossed a five-hitter and struck out a season-high seven against Saint Francis to move to 4-1 on the season. She's allowed four earned runs in 35 innings for a 0.80 ERA. She's pitched in all nine games and gone the distance in all four starts.
 
DeWitte was 3-for-7 during Saturday's pair of games. Wilson tacked on two hits Saturday and is 7-for-15 (.467) for the tournament. Pender is 4-for-12 in four Classic games with 10 RBI.
 
South Dakota closes out the tournament Sunday with a 9 a.m. (ET) rematch with Saint Francis.