WINCHESTER, Va. – The Shenandoah University softball team returned to the .500 mark Tuesday afternoon by sweeping a non-league doubleheader from Gettysburg College.
Shenandoah (4-4) was a 3-1 winner in the opener before holding on for a 4-3 victory in the nightcap.
In game two, SU held a 4-0 lead only to see Gettysburg (0-2) make a game of it with one run in the fifth and two more in the seventh.
The Bullets had the tying run on third base with one out and the bases loaded in the seventh only to line into a game-ending double play.
Junior Carrie Robinson earned the save as she got designed hitter Meredith Taylor to line to third base, where freshman Maryann Hollen snagged the ball and then touched the bag to end the GC threat.
Sophomore Elizabeth Everette (1-0) was the winner. She gave up the three runs on eight hits and one walk in 6.0 innings. Gettysburg started the seventh with four straight hits before Hornets coach Marlena Kotynski called on Robinson to come on in place of Everette.
Robinson immediately got a strikeout before allowing a bases loaded walk to bring Gettysburg to within the single run.
Taylor then lined into the game-ending DP.
Sierra Beaty and Megan Wilk both had two hits for the Hornets in the win with Kayla O'Connell driving in a pair with a single to center in the second.
Wilk scored what proved to be the game-winning run in the fourth when she came home on Allie Schey's sacrifice fly to left.
Beaty was the offensive story in game one as well, going 2-for-3 with a triple and an RBI.
In game two, she had a single and a double.
Shenandoah scored two unearned runs in the first along with a single run in the fourth to provide enough offense for sophomore Katherine Seidl (2-2). Seidl went the distance, allowing only a first inning run and five hits in the seven innings.
She struck out five.
The Hornets are back in action Saturday morning at 10 a.m. in a non-league home doubleheader versus Wilkes.
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