FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - Shenandoah University got back on the softball winning track by getting a win and a tie in a non-league doubleheader at Mary Washington Wednesday afternoon.

Shenandoah (10-7-1) was a 10-2 winner in the opener before Mary Washington (4-13-1) came back to salvage a 4-4 tie in the nightcap.

SU actually scored three runs in the top of the eighth inning of game two before the umpires called the game due to darkness. By rule, the game reverts back to the last completed inning and thus ends in a 4-4 tie.

A six-run first inning was all the Hornets needed to secure the victory in the opener. Ashley Plaugher, Lauren McCabe, Emmalie Spina, Denise Mitchell and Renoula Jones all had run-scoring singles in the frame.

Jolisa Jones, 3 for 5 with a home run and two RBI, and Catherine Pruiett, 3 for 4 with one RBI, led the Hornets at the plate.

Sophomore Brooke Over struck out 10 and walked just one in the complete game victory. She improved to 5-4 on the spring by tossing a four-hitter.

Four game-two errors led to three of the four Eagles runs being unearned.

Amanda Litwin struck out four before Over registered another five K's in pitching the final three innings.

Jones, Pruiett, Plaugher and Lauren Wall all had at least two hits with Jones getting three hits in four at-bats.

SU hosts N.C. Wesleyan on Saturday at noon in a USA South Conference doubleheader.

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