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SCRANTON, Pa. - The red-hot Lebanon Valley College softball team rolled past the University of Scranton Thursday, winning both ends of a doubleheader handily, 9-3 and 11-1, at Tripp Park in Scranton.
The Dutchmen (20-7, 5-1 Commonwealth) are 16-2 over the past month and have won six in a row. Scranton (20-6, 8-2 Landmark) had won 14 of their last 16 games before being swept.
The Lebanon Valley offense caught fire in both games, bashing out a combined 32 hits. Kristen Uhas reached base eight times, going a combined 7-for-9 with six runs, an RBI and a walk. Katie DeJulio and Janey Kozlowski each drove in two runs in game one, and in game two, Caitlin Keller and Meghan Donoghue each posted three RBI.
Val Malizzia picked up the win in game one, going six innings and allowing three runs while striking out seven. Allix Sanders pitched a perfect inning of relief.
Laura Snyder earned her 10th win of the season in the nightcap, throwing her eighth complete game as she allowed one run and struck out nine.
LVC struck first in game one, putting two across in the first when Davies reached on an error at third to score Uhas and DeJulio. Scranton scored a run in the last of the inning, but LVC retaliated with two more in the third thanks to Davies' single to plate Uhas and Kozlowski drawing a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch.
The Dutchmen made it 6-1 in the sixth thanks to Jess Salisbury's single to score Uhas and DeJulio, and LVC added three more in the seventh with Kozlowski's RBI single and a two-run base hit by DeJulio.
Game two was more of the same as LVC scored in every inning by the fifth. Davies hit an RBI double in the first to take a 1-0 lead, and Marisa Krause did likewise in the second. Keller smacked the first of her two doubles in the third to score Salisbury and make it a 3-0 game, and Uhas' single and Keller's second two-bagger knocked in three runs in the fourth as the Dutchman began to run away with the game.
LVC added two more in the sixth with RBI singles by Katie Freeman and Donoghue, and three more runs scored in the seventh on Salisbury's single and a two-run double by Donoghue.
Scranton's lone run came in the fourth, when Mia Collarini scored on a wild pitch after stealing third.
LVC will hope to keep its momentum as it travels to Lycoming College Saturday for a 1 p.m. Commonwealth Conference doubleheader.
