WINCHESTER, Va. - The Shenandoah University softball team snapped a three-game losing streak Wednesday afternoon with a non-league doubleheader split against future ODAC opponent Eastern Mennonite.
After EMU (4-6) was a 2-1 winner in the opener, Shenandoah (6-4) came back to take the nightcap 13-5 in five innings.
Sophomore Jordan Wolford (2-1), who came on relief of starter Misty Judd in the second inning of game two, helped herself out with a fourth-inning grand slam off Royals starter Molly Smith (2-3).
Wolford's blast to left-center broke open a one-run game and made the score 9-4 in favor of the Hornets.
Shenandoah then scored four more runs in the fifth, the last when Wolford drove home freshman Morgan Coble on a groundout, to end the game early.
Wolford allowed one run on two hits and one walk in 3 2/3 innings of relief work. At the plate, she was 2 for 3 with six RBI.
SU had eight hits in the nightcap, including three by shortstop Jolisa Jones. Jones also scored four runs and drove in two.
An unearned run in the sixth made junior Brooke Over (3-2) a hard-luck loser in the opener. Over struck out seven, walked two and allowed five hits in the complete game performance, but came up on the short end of the 2-1 score when EMU converted two errors and a sacrifice into the winning run.
Ashley Plaugher was 2 for 2 to lead Shenandoah at the plate in game one and drove in the team's only run with an RBI single to left in the first.
SU takes to the road this weekend to play in the Salisbury University Tournament on Friday and Saturday.
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