Softball

Softball Sweeps Squirrels

STAUNTON, Va. - Visiting Shenandoah University registered a pair of shutouts Tuesday afternoon in a USA South Conference softball doubleheader with Mary Baldwin.

Shenandoah (15-12-1, 7-7 USA South) was a 7-0 winner in the opener before taking the nightcap 9-0.

Game two was shortened by the NCAA mercy rule to five innings.

The Hornets got all of the offense they would need in the first inning of the opener by scoring seven runs on six hits and one costly MBC (2-29, 0-14) error.

Centerfielder Jolisa Jones drove in the final two runs with a triple into the right-center gap while Lauren Wall, Lauren McCabe and Catherine Pruiett had RBI singles.

SU would need no more offense as pitchers Brooke Over (8-6) and Ashley Stegemiller combined to throw a no-hitter.

Over struck out seven and walked two in the first 5.0 innings before Stegemiller retired the final six hitters in order to complete the no-no.

The no-hitter is the second of the year for the team - Over posted her first career gem on March 27 against N.C. Wesleyan.

Game two was a virtual replay of the opener as Shenandoah scored all nine of its runs in the first inning and then pitchers Amanda Litwin (7-6) and Stegemiller tossed a two-hitter.

Litwin allowed a third inning single and a fourth inning double to miss a second consecutive gem, but struck out four and walked two in 4.0 innings.

Stegemiller hit her opening batter in the fifth before retiring the next three to close out the contest.

Offensively, junior Ashley Plaugher was 2 for 2 with five RBI on a three-run HR and a two-run double in the first.

Shenandoah is back in action on Friday in another USA South Conference doubleheader against Peace.

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