Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Susquehanna softball team remained undefeated in Landmark Conference play thanks to a doubleheader sweep of Catholic on Saturday afternoon in Washington, D.C.

The Crusaders (9-9, 4-0) won game one 5-3 before taking the second game by a 3-1 score over the Cardinals (11-10, 1-3).

Shortstop Sam LaCoe (Clarks Summit, Pa./Abington Heights) finished the day 4-for-6 with three runs scored and two RBI. Leadoff hitter Amanda Neveroski (Toms River, N.J./Toms River North) was 4-for-7, thanks in part to a 3-for-3 performance in game one.

Game one starter Morgan Lewis (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North) went the distance, giving up just three runs on 10 hits with eight strikeouts and just one walk.

The Crusaders did not waste much time taking a lead as they plated two runs in the top of the first inning thanks to a Bridget Rafter (Highlands, N.J./Henry Hudson Regional) RBI single to center that scored Neveroski and LaCoe.

It remained a 2-0 game until the top of the fourth when SU broke out for three more runs, two of which scored on a two-run homer from Neveroski. LaCoe accounted for the third run of the inning with a solo shot that made it 5-0.

Lewis ran into some trouble in the bottom of the sixth when she gave up two runs on four hits but she did strand a runner and Susquehanna maintained a three-run lead (5-2).

In the bottom of the seventh, Lewis surrendered a two-out RBI single for a 5-3 game but got Rose Shaver to ground out to end the game and preserve SU's victory.

Game two was another tight game with starting pitcher Jamie Fesinstine (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) throwing a complete game. The freshman scattered one run and 11 hits over her seven innings of work and had five strikeouts to two walks.

Just like in game one, Susquehanna put two runs on the board in the top of the first inning on RBI hits from LaCoe and Rafter.

The Cardinals added a run in the bottom half of the second but Fesinstine got Rebekah Hoisl to pop up with the bases loaded to keep it a 2-1 ballgame.

The Crusaders tacked on an insurance run in the top of the fourth when Claire Hanratty's (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) single up the middle scored Cierra Omlor (Salem, N.J./Salem), who had entered the game as a pinch runner.

Catholic put two runners on base in the sixth but Fesinstine worked out of trouble in that inning and proceeded to retire the Cardinals in order in the seventh to complete the doubleheader sweep for SU.

SU has a quick turnaround as the team travels to Elizabethtown on Sunday for a makeup Landmark Conference doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.