LYNCHBURG, Va. - Host Lynchburg College swept Shenandoah University in a pair of non-league softball games Saturday afternoon at Moon Field.

The LC Hornets (3-1) were 5-2 winners in nine innings in the opener and came back to defeat the SU Hornets 8-2 in the nightcap.

Shenandoah (0-2) took a 1-0 lead in the opener when junior Catherine Pruiett led off the sixth with an infield single, advanced to second and scored when Lynchburg had a throwing error as Pruiett advanced from second to third on an Ashley Plaugher groundout.

LC scored two runs of its own in the top of the seventh take a one-run lead, but Pruiett came through with an RBI groundout in the bottom of the frame to knot the contest at 2-2.

Following a scoreless eighth, Lynchburg won it with three runs on two hits off of SU losing pitcher Brooke Over. Over (0-1) was outstanding in the contest, striking out a career-high 15 batters and walking just one in the complete game showing.

LC jumped on freshman Amanda Litwin for three runs in the second and two more in the sixth to take total control of the nightcap.

Litwin (0-1) allowed five runs (four earned) on three hits and six walks in 6 1/3 before turning it over to classmate Ashley Stegemiller. Stegemiller allowed three runs on five hits in the remaining 2/3 of an inning.

Pruiett, Jolisa Jones and Lauren Wall all had two hits each for coach Marlena Kotynski in game two.

Shenandoah played as the home team in the doubleheader because it was originally scheduled for Winchester and had to be moved to Lynchburg because of the continued snow cover in the northern Shenandoah Valley. 

SU is back in action beginning on Friday at the Virginia Wesleyan Tournament.

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