WINCHESTER, Va. - Shenandoah University headed into its final USA South Conference softball weekend of the regular season with a doubleheader sweep over Peace College Friday afternoon.

Shenandoah (17-12-1, 9-7 USA South) was an 8-1 winner in the opener before taking the nightcap 10-2.

Game two ended in the sixth inning due to the NCAA mercy rule.

Peace (15-20, 4-12) actually led game one 1-0 after scoring one run on one hit and a walk in the top of the first.

However, this would all the offense the Pacers would be able to generate against sophomore Brooke Over (9-6).

Over allowed just two hits and struck out 12 in the complete game performance. She had at least one strikeout in every inning and struck out the side in both the second and fourth.

Offensively, SU sent 10 women to the plate in the first as it scored six runs on seven hits. Junior Ashley Plaugher had a two-run double from her No. 3 spot in the order to give the hosts a lead it would not relinquish.

A seven-run third inning of game two gave the Hornets a commanding 8-0 lead - Jolisa Jones had a double and a triple in the frame as the team had six of its 15 hits off of PC pitcher Hannah McLeod (0-2).

Freshman Amanda Litwin (9-7) pitched the first 5.0 inning for Shenandoah before turning it over to classmate Ashley Stegemiller for the sixth. Litwin allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits and four walks.

Freshman Emmalie Spina ended the game by driving a bases-loaded single back up the middle to score Lauren Wall from third. Wall had led off the SU sixth with a base on balls.

Plaugher and freshman Lauren McCabe each had three hits in the nightcap while Renoula Jones and Catherine Pruiett did the same in the opener.

Shenandoah is back in action Saturday at noon in a USA South Conference doubleheader against Methodist.

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