Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MIAMI – Polk State Softball was unable to bring a victory home from its long trip to South Florida on Thursday. The Eagles were swept by No. 8 Miami Dade College in a doubleheader.

A seven-run fourth inning for Miami Dade did in the Eagles in the first game on Thursday. Polk State fell 8-3 to open the day.

Polk State led 2-0 early behind an RBI double from Jamie Reinhardt in the first inning that scored Nayeli Hernandez and a solo home run from Leia Hurst in the top of the fourth. Things, however, unraveled in the bottom of the inning.

A pair of errors led to four unearned runs during a seven-run frame. Three different Miami Dade players had RBI doubles in the inning. An RBI single by Maria Valls Raya put the Sharks ahead to stay.

Hurst scored her second run of the day on an RBI single from Veronica Fernandez in the fifth. Hurst and Silvia Franzoni each recorded a pair of hits in the loss. Caroline Mito finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored for Miami Dade.

The Sharks needed just five innings to collect an 8-0 run-rule victory in the second game.

Mito finished 3-for-4 with two runs scored and four RBIs in that one. That included a three-run home run to end the game in the bottom of the fifth. Gabriela Trinoski was 2-for-2 with a pair of doubles, two runs scored, and two RBIs.

Reinhardt had two of the three hits for the Eagles (19-20, 6-14 Citrus Conference). Franzoni had the only other hit.

With the two losses, Polk State falls below .500 for the first time since the first day of the season. The Eagles will try to bounce back on Tuesday when they visit No. 3 Indian River State College.