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Box Score 2 Senior Kelly Miller celebrated Senior Day with a 4-for-7 day at the plate with two runs scored and a triple as the Susquehanna University Softball team scored a pair of wins over Elizabethtown College Saturday afternoon in a Landmark Conference doubleheader on Sassafras Field in Selinsgrove.
Miller was 2-for-4 with a run scored in a 10-6 game one win and was 2-for-3 with a triple and another run scored in the 3-0 River Hawks win in the nightcap. Susquehanna (23-9 Overall, 7-3 Landmark) has now won 10 consecutive games and clinched a No. 2 or No. 3 seed in the upcoming Landmark Tournament.
The River Hawks scored early and often in the opener with three runs in the first inning, two in the second and three more in the third to take an 8-0 lead.
Elizabethtown (15-11, 2-8) scored its first run with a single run in the fourth and added five more runs in the top of the sixth inning to close the gap to 8-6.
After relief pitcher Gabby Bubba came on to stop the rally in the sixth, Susquehanna scored twice in the bottom of the sixth to close out the scoring.
Senior Brooke Kohler was 3-for-3 with a run and two runs batted in and fellow senior Leigh Ann Greenwald was 2-for-4 with a run scored and a run batted in for Susquehanna in the opener.
Between games the seniors including Miller, Kohler, Greenwald, Heather Pearson, McKayla Brady and Emilie Boman were honored along with senior manager Aksahy Kripalani.
In the second game, the River Hawks scored all three runs with a fifth inning rally and freshman pitcher Brooke Wiarda completed a shutout started by Bubba for her third consecutive victory.
In the fifth, Miller singled to start the inning and Emily Lear followed with a bunt single. Later, with two outs in the inning, Boman singled to left field to score Miller and both runners advanced a base on the throw home. Brady followed with a two-run single to right field to cap the scoring.
Bubba started the game and allowed a pair of hits in two innings before Wiarda came on in relief. She allowed four hits over the final five innings to improve her record to 3-0.
The River Hawks entertain non-conference foe Misericordia Thursday with a 3 p.m. doubleheader before wrapping up Landmark Conference regular season play Saturday at Drew.