CLERMONT, Fla. — The No. 2-ranked Ohio Northern softball team opened its 2010 season with victories over Marywood (Pa.) and Lycoming (Pa.) Tuesday afternoon.

Senior Cortney Cash became ONU's all-time career wins leader with a 4-hit, 7-strikeout complete game victory over Marywood.

Cash now has 45 career pitching victories as a Polar Bear, breakign the mark of 44 she had shared with Michelle Stillings, who accomplished the feat from 1986-89.

Sophomore Katie Cretin had an RBI triple in the third inning to give ONU the lead for good at 2-1 in the bottom of the third.

Cretin then scored Jackie Mangola, who had tripled, on a sac fly to make it a 3-1 game in the fifth.

Against Lycoming, Northern scored four times in the top of the first and plated six more runs in the top of the fourth frame as the game was called after five innings due to the NCAAs 8-rune rule.

The Polar Bears pounded out 17 hits in the contest, led by a 4-for-4, 2 RBI effort from sophomore Lisa Light.

Maggie Molnar (1-0) scattered seven hits to earn the complete-game victory.

Rains in the area forced changes in ONU's scheule on Tuesday, as the Polar Bears' much-anticpiated contest against No. 1-ranked Messiah (Pa.) was cancelled.

Scheduled to start at11:30 am, rains forced a 2 1/2-hour delay, pushing the start back to approximaetly 2 pm. The game was then cancelled as the Falcons had to catch a 4 pm plane back to their home in Pennsylvania.

Ohio Northern will return to action Thursday with games against Mary Washington (Va.) and Augustana (ill.)