Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Susquehanna softball team swept Catholic with 7-6 and 8-5 victories on Saturday in a conference road doubleheader.

With the wins, SU dealt the Cardinals (13-9, 2-2) their first two league losses of the year. Susquehanna, meanwhile, improves to 14-8 overall and 3-1 in league play.

In the opening game, four players had two hits with Lauren Gilbert (Mechanicsville, Pa./Cumberland Valley) going 2-for-4 with two runs scored and Kathryn Gilbert (Mechanicsville, Pa./Cumberland Valley) finishing 2-for-4 with two RBI and one run scored. Lisa Finizio (Oakland, N.J./Indian Hills) also added two hits and two RBI while Madison Clark (Blue Springs, Mo./Blue Springs) drove in two runs.

In the circle, Sarah Hoffman (Laceyville, Pa./Wyalusing Valley) pitched the first three innings, giving up four runs on four hits. Allison Cullen (Branchburg, N.J./Immaculata) tossed the final four innings and surrendered two runs while striking out two and walking just one.

The game was ultimately decided in the first inning as SU put five runs on the board thanks to four hits and a Catholic error. Kathryn Gilbert drove home two runs with a single and Clark sent home another two with her double to center. The final run came courtesy of a Courtney Miller (Kendall Park, N.J./South Brunswick) RBI single to left.

The Cardinals got one run back in the first and added another three in the second to make it a 5-4 game.

In the fourth inning, Susquehanna padded its lead with two more runs with both scoring on Finizio's triple that made it 7-4.

Catholic made it a one-run game with a two-run fifth inning but Cullen gave up only one hit over the final two innings to preserve the SU win.

Game two was another close one but 12 hits from Susquehanna combined with a complete game from Morgan Lewis (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North) propelled the Crusaders to the doubleheader sweep.

Sam LaCoe (Clarks Summit, Pa./Abington Heights) finished 2-for-4 with two runs scored and a RBI while catcher Brittany Devlin (Furlong, Pa./Central Bucks East) drove in three runs and scored another. Kathryn Gilbert continued her hot streak with two more hits, two runs scored and two RBI.

Lewis went the distance and gave up five runs and struck out three.

Catholic actually struck first with a single run in the first before SU went up 2-1 thanks to a Kathryn Gilber two-run homer in the second inning.

The Cardinals knotted the game at two in the bottom of the inning before Clark drove in Kathryn Gilbert with a triple that put SU ahead 3-2.

A five-run fifth inning for the Crusaders effectively clinched the win. Finizio and LaCoe both had early-inning RBIs and Devlin provided a three-run homer to cap off the inning's scoring.

Catholic made it close by adding three runs on five hits in the sixth inning but Lewis pitched in and out of trouble in the ninth, ending the game on a pop up to shortstop to complete the doubleheader sweep.

SU returns home on Tuesday, April 3 to host Misericordia in a doubleheader starting at 3 p.m.