PITTSFORD, N.Y. – Lindsey Thayer continued her dominance in the circle on Saturday as the junior pitcher threw a perfect game and notched her 1,000th career strikeout as the nationally-ranked St. John Fisher College softball team took both games of an Empire 8 doubleheader against Alfred at the Softball Complex.  Fisher, which is ranked 10th-nationally in the latest National Fastpitch Coaches Association poll, edged its winning streak to eight games and closed out the day at 27-5 overall and 10-2 in the conference standings.  Alfred fell to 16-16, 7-7, respectively. 

Thayer's performance caps a historic week for the Winthrop native as she threw her second career no-hitter on Tuesday and tied the NCAA Division III record for strikeouts in seven innings with 21 against Nazareth on Friday.  For the week, Thayer, who was named the NFCA's Pitcher of the Week on Wednesday, combined to throw 23.0 innings where she allowed just three total hits, no runs and racked up 60 strikeouts.

For her career, Thayer has amassed 1,000 career strikeouts in just 574.0 innings of work and an earned run average of 0.84.

FISHER 7, ALFRED 0

The Cardinals did a bulk of the damage in the bottom of the first inning with five runs despite coming up with just one hit.  Julia Sortisio led off for Fisher and was promptly hit by a pitch before Katie Mazierski drew a walk.  Ashley Prince scored Sortisio from second with an RBI-single to center while Sarah Kubik loaded the bases with a walk of her own.  After a wild pitch plated another run, Karlie Neale walked while another errant pitch allowed Prince to score to make it 3-0.  Genevieve Paeglow drew the Cardinals' fourth walk of the frame before Emma Savas stepped to the dish and drew yet another base on balls along with an RBI to make it 4-0.  As the inning continued, Kristina Balsano made it a five-run game when she lifted a sacrifice fly to left that plated Neale.

After a 1-2-3 top of the second, Fisher went back to work in the home half of the inning with two more runs on three hits with Neale and Paeglow each driving in one run apiece. 

Thayer started and went two innings with four strikeouts before being lifted in the third for Monica Moses.  Moses finished out the game and moved to 11-1 with the win after holding the Saxons scoreless over five innings. 

FISHER 1, ALFRED 0

Thayer moved to 16-4 with the win and tallied 17 strikeouts over seven innings.  The ball only made it out of the infield once as Sortisio squeezed a fly ball to center field. 
The game's lone run came in the third inning when Ashley Prince doubled off the top of the outfield fence before being driven in by a base knock up the middle off Kubik's bat.

Fisher will close out the regular season with three straight road doubleheaders beginning with a 3:30 p.m. showdown with crosstown rival University of Rochester on Tuesday afternoon.  From there, head coach Bari Mance's squad will battle The College at Brockport and Utica, respectively, before jumping into the Empire 8 Championship.