TRACY, Calif. – Senior Isabella Barge hit a combined 5-for-6 with two extra-base hits and five RBIs, junior Jocelyn Villaflor finished a perfect 4 of 4 with five RBIs at the plate, while sophomore Kaili Heeb fanned nine batters in eight innings of work in the pitching circle, as St. Francis dominated its first day of action at the NFCA NorCal Leadoff Classic softball tournament at Legacy Fields Friday.

The Troubadours opened with a 14-4 win over Ceres, then finished the day with a 14-1 victory over Argonaut to improve to 8-7 for the season.

St. Francis won both games so handily that the tourney's run rule was invoked at the fourth inning, meaning the Troubies only went to bat in seven total frames. Barge hit 3-for-3 with three runs, a double and an RBI against the Bulldogs, then followed by going 2-for-3 with a based-loaded triple in the nightcap with the Mustangs. Villaflor had a two-run single plus a sacrifice fly against Ceres, then went 3-for-3 with two more runs plated versus Argo.

Barge was one of three Troubies with multiple hits in the opener: Marissa Jensen rapped a triple in her team's four-run first inning as part of an overall 2-for-3 performance. She also scored three runs while driving in two others in that game. Elizabeth Bettar went 2-for-3 and Jaeya Leavitt went 2-for-2 against Ceres.

The evening game ultimately came down to a 13-run third inning in which St. Francis fully batted through the lineup twice. Besides Villaflor and Barge, Alexis McFarland finished 2-for-2 with two runs and a triple. Bettar scored two runs and drove in two others without an official at-bat: she walked, was hit by pitch and delivered a sacrifice fly on which she also reached on a dropped fly.

Oddly, the Troubies essentially scored one run at a time in that titanic third, other than the three-run Barge triple. McFarland led off that inning with a three-bagger of her own for her third of the year. She now stands on the precipice of becoming just the seventh SF player in the MaxPreps era (2005-present) to hit four in a season.

The Troubadours advance to the semifinal round of the Leadoff Classic's Platinum bracket. They will face Pitman at 10 a.m. on Legacy Fields' A-1 diamond Saturday, then take on either Davis or Kimball at 2 p.m. that afternoon.