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READING, Pa. – The Lebanon Valley College softball team won 4-2 in the opener and 16-7 in a dark-shortened nightcap of a Commonwealth Conference doubleheader at Albright College Thursday afternoon.

The victories gave LVC (6-7, 2-2 CC) its first doubleheader sweep of the season.

Albright fell to 7-8 and 0-3.

In the first game, junior Kristen Crouse (Columbia, Pa./Columbia) clouted a two-run homer, LVC's first longball of the season, in the top of the first inning to spark the Flying Dutchmen. Freshman Alisa Albers (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) earned the win on the mound and improved to 2-0 on the season.

Junior Jess Cooney (Rockledge, Pa./Abington) (4-2) pitched LVC to victory in the nightcap as the Valley set a season high for runs scored. The team's 16 runs marked LVC's best offensive output since the Dutchmen's 21-1 rout of Randolph Macon in the Valley's 2002 season opener.

The game was called after six innings due to the eight-run rule.

Lebanon Valley returns to the diamond on Saturday when the team visits Susquehanna University at 1 p.m. in another Commonwealth doubleheader.

[Photo - Freshman Alisa Albers, who picked up her second collegiate victory as LVC beat Albright 4-2 in game one of a doubleheader Thursday at Albright]

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