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Softball Extends Winning Streak to 10, Sweeps EMU 5-0, 1-0

For Immediate Release - 3/22/09 - #262

Softball Extends Winning Streak to 10, Sweeps EMU 5-0, 1-0

 

HARRISONBURG, VA - The Lynchburg College softball team extended their winning streak to ten games on Sunday afternoon with a 5-0, 1-0 sweep of Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) foe Eastern Mennonite University.

 

In the first game, the offense proved to be efficient, putting only eight players on base while scoring five runs. Brittany Allsop (Milford, CT/Johnathan Law) and Audra Della Rosa (Rumford, RI/St. Mary Academy Bay View) led off the first inning with consecutive singles and advanced to third and second respectively on a passed ball. Tara Campbell (Leesburg, VA/Loudoun Co.) came up to bat and hit a sacrifice fly to score Allsop then Katie Bruce (Lanexa, VA/Lafayette) singled to left field to drive in Della Rosa. The Hornet bats were quieted until the fifth inning. Allsop singled through the right side to drive in pinch runner Leslie Bailey (Rockville, VA/Homeschool) from third base then Rachel Gallagher (Warrenton, VA/Fauquier) hit her third homerun of the season to score Allsop to provide the Hornets with the final 5-0 margin of victory.

 

Barbie Miles (Kinsale, VA/Washington & Lee) was stupendous in the game, pitching all seven innings while allowing just five hits and two walks while striking out nine Eastern Mennonite (5-11/0-6 ODAC) batters. Six players each recorded one hit with Allsop scoring twice and driving in a run on a walk and a hit and Gallagher scored once and plated two Hornets on a homer.

 

The second contest proved to be a pitchers duel as neither team had more four players reach base safely. In the top of the seventh inning, Campbell stepped up to the plate to lead off the inning and sent a pitch over the fences in center field to score the game-winning run. Bruce went the distance for LC and allowed just four hits with four strikeouts. Campbell registered two of the three hits for the Hornets and was the only player in the contest to have a multi-hit game while Amber James (Manahawkin, NJ/S. Regional) contributed with a walk and a hit. Misty Judd of Eastern Mennonite stifled Lynchburg as she pitched seven innings and scattered jus three hits and one walk with eight strikeouts.

 

Lynchburg (15-4/6-0 ODAC) looks to extend their winning streak as they host Randolph-Macon College on Saturday and Virginia Wesleyan College on Sunday with both double-headers slated to start at 1:30 p.m.

 

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03/22/2009, Lynchburg College Sports Information Office