Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

READING, Pa. – Looking to end their season on a winning note, softball (9-27, 3-11 Commonwealth) hosted Elizabethtown College (19-18, 6-8 Commonwealth) in a conference doubleheader Saturday afternoon on the Albright Softball Field. However the Blue Jays would sweep the red and white by the final scores of 8-1 and 4-3.

Saturday's twinbill marked the final in the careers of Melanie Chapman, Megan Keohane, and Olivia Miller, and also served as the Lady Lions "Take a Swing Against Breast Cancer" game as well.  The red and white sold t-shirts and held the first-ever home run derby after the second game as a way to raise money for the Susan G. Komen fund.

In game one, the Blue Jays combined for 14 hits, while limiting the Lady Lions to just five. Chapman, along with Jaime Weckesser, Jackie Bohanan, Marguerite DeLucas, and Miller would each record hit in the opener. Driving in Albright's only run was Miller on a RBI fielder's choice in the seventh inning.

Bohanan would account for the lone Albright run after crushing a double to deep center field with only one out on the scoreboard. Weckesser was handed the loss after surrendering six runs on nine hits in five innings of work. Alex Tragno closed out the final two frames and allowed two runs on five hits. The combined for four strikeouts respectively.

For the Blue Jays Elly McCarthy was dominant at the plate going 4-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI. In the circle it was Julie Sebastian who went all seven innings to earn her 11th win of the year (11-10). Sebastian went on to strikeout seven, while walking three others.

The nightcap would be a much different game, as Albright pounded out six hits, while holding Elizabethtown to just eight as a team. All three of the Lions runs would come in the bottom half of the first, and would give the red and white a 3-1 lead.

After leadoff walk, and a single by Miriah Wilson to put runners at 1st and 2nd, Nikki Schwenk put both runners in scoring position after laying down a perfect sacrifice bunt.

From there, the red and white would score a pair of runs following an Elizabethtown error to make it 2-1. Their final run of the inning would come from Bohanan, who was plated by a Brittany Bartok RBI double to left center.

Now leading by a pair of runs, the red and white looked to hold their conference rivals for the next six innings. They managed to surrender just one more run through the next two frames. It was in the top half of the fourth, that the Blue Jays were able to score a pair of runs to earn their second and final lead of the afternoon.

After the fourth, the final three innings just flew by as both teams made quick work of each other's hitters.
Emily Vogel would earn the game-two in the circle, her eighth of the year (8-8). Allie Frank was handed the loss after four innings of work. Tragno once again closed out the game and allowed just one hit in three solid innings.