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ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – Senior Jenn Roberts threw an eight-hit complete victory in the first game as the Lebanon Valley College softball team split a Commonwealth Conference doubleheader in LVC’s conference opener Saturday afternoon at Elizabethtown College.

Lebanon Valley (8-4, 1-1 CC) won the opener 4-3 in nine innings before dropping a 3-0 decision in the nightcap.

Alex Lee threw both ends of the twinbill for Elizabethtown (8-8, 3-1 CC) and fired a three-hit shutout in the second game.

Four days after recording her 100th career hit, senior Jenn Parks broke the Lebanon Valley all-time doubles record with her 24th career two-bagger.

With the game tied 3-3 in the top of the ninth, senior Amy Batz worked a two-out walk, then stole second. She went on to score what held up as the game-winning run when Parks ripped her record-breaking double.

Lebanon Valley survived a scare in the bottom of the inning, when leadoff batter Kelli Thon reached second base on an error leading off. She moved to third on a groundout, but Roberts escaped with a strikeout and a fly-out.

Roberts (3-2) struck out seven and scattered eight hits while walking three. She allowed three runs (two earned) over the first two innings, but blanked the Blue Jays the rest of the way. Batz preserved the 3-3 tie by throwing out the potential game-winning run at the plate from centerfield in the bottom of the seventh.

Elizabethtown starter Alex Lee also worked a complete game, yielding nine hits and three walks while fanning three.

Junior Jessica Salisbury finished 3-for-5 with a double at the plate for LVC while Roberts helped herself offensively, going 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored.

In Game Two, Lee received all the offense she would need in the first inning, when E-town scored an unearned run against LVC starter Kelly O’Toole. Lee finished with six strikeouts and did not walk a batter. She retired the final seven batters of the game.

The Blue Jays added a pair of insurance runs in the sixth.

O’Toole (3-2) worked all six innings for the Valley, yielding five hits and two walks while striking out one.

Lebanon Valley returns to the diamond on Sunday, when it visits Franklin & Marshall for a non-conference doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.

[Photo - Senior Jenn Roberts]

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