GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Shenandoah University softball team earned a split of its non-league softball doubleheader at Gettysburg College Thursday afternoon.

Shenandoah (7-15) was a 10-1 winner in the opener before Gettysburg (13-5) came back to win 4-2 in the nightcap.

In the opener, SU scored nine runs on six hits and two Bullets errors in the fifth inning to provide the winning margin.

In the bottom of the frame, freshman Elizabeth Everette (2-3) worked around a one out single with a pop up to first and a strikeout to finish off the contest two innings early due to the NCAA mercy rule.

Haley Koeninger had the big hit in that nine-run rally with a three-run triple to right center that scored Makaela Dawkins, Lindsay Corbin and Breanne Smith.

Dawkins actually had the game-winning RBI one at-bat prior to Koeninger's triple by being hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.

Corbin had two of the Hornets six hits in the inning with a single on her first trip and a two-run double on her second.

Corbin, Dawkins and Koeninger all had two hits in the win.

Everette allowed one run on five hits, struck out four and did not walk a batter.

McKenzie Somers (0-1) took the loss for GC. She gave up five runs on three hits and one walk without recording an out.

Gettysburg had a three-run fourth in the nightcap to salvage the sweep.

Casey Webb, who had three hits, had an RBI single in the third with Janae Hester plating the final run of the game on a sacrifice fly in the sixth.

Corbin backed up Webb with two hits in three at-bats.

Katherine Seidl (3-9) was tagged with the loss after allowing the three runs on six hits and three walks in 3 1/3 innings.

Shenandoah returns to ODAC play on Saturday with a 1 p.m. doubleheader at Roanoke.

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