NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Former USA South Conference rival Christopher Newport University rallied for a pair of non-league softball victories over Shenandoah Tuesday afternoon.

The Captains (11-3 and No. 21 in the nation) were 7-3 winners in the opening game before winning 3-2 in the nightcap.

CNU completed the sweep in walkoff fashion, getting a Christina McLaughlin double to left center to score Candice Zollars with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning of game two.

Shenandoah (1-6) led the nightcap 2-0 thanks to one run in the first and another in the second, but saw the Captains rally with one in their half of the second, another in the fourth and then the game-winner in the seventh.

Freshman Lindsay Corbin (0-3) after allowing the game-winning run on one hit and one walk. She took over to start the seventh in relief of Lisa Mitro.

Mitro gave up two runs (one earned) on four hits and two walks in 6.0 innings.

Erica Kondzielawa, Kimberly Brady and Kaitlin Robinson had the Hornets three hits in game two.

Trailing 3-2 heading to the bottom of the fifth of game one, CNU tied it with one in the fifth and then scored four times in the sixth to pull away.

Alexis Pope scored what proved to be the game-winning run by leading off the Captains sixth with a double down the left field line and advancing to third on Tori Clarke's single up the middle.

Pope then trotted home on a Megan Tripp (1-3) wild pitch.

Tripp went the distance for SU, allowing seven runs on 11 hits and one walk in 6.0 innings. She struck out two, hit two batters and had three wild pitches.

The Hornets took that 3-2 lead in the fourth on the strength of a two-out, two-run single up the middle by catcher Karli Rorabaugh.

Rorabaugh plated Brady and Morgan Coble, who had reached on consecutive one-out singles to right.

Senior Brittany Guepe had three of the squad's seven hits in the contest.

Shenandoah is back in action on Thursday at Eastern Mennonite in the squad's ODAC opener.

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