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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Lebanon Valley College won its eighth game in a row Saturday, drubbing Lycoming College, 9-0 and 11-0, to take both ends of a doubleheader in Commonwealth Conference softball action.
Freshman Laura Snyder was brilliant in game one, striking out the first 10 batters she faced in en route to a 13-strikeout, five-inning win, and Val Malizzia won game two with a seven strike-out, five-inning effort. Snyder won her 10th straight decision to improve to 11-1, and Malizzia went to 9-2.
The Dutchmen (22-7, 7-1 CC) tied the program record for consecutive wins at eight, and have now won 16 of their last 17 games. With Widener's sweep of Elizabethtown on Saturday, LVC and Widener are now tied atop the CC standings at 7-1, with each of their losses coming to each other. An LVC sweep of E-town next weekend would assure at least a share of the CC regular-season title.
Offensively, the Dutchmen belted four home runs, including three in the first game. Kristen Uhas went a combined 4-7 with seven RBI, six in game two alone, and a home run, while Katie DeJulio, Allie Davies and Caitlin Keller each drove in two runs. Chelsea Artz went yard in game one with a three-run blast.
In game one, LVC put four across in the first thanks to DeJulio's solo shot and Keller's two-run blast later in the inning. After Uhas drove in Lauren Sanford to go up 5-0 in the second, and Artz' three-run bomb put the game out of reach in the third. LVC added a ninth run in the fifth as Uhas singles in Snyder.
Snyder, meanwhile, was lights-out, mowing down the first 10 batters she faced before Jessica Nabholz broke up the perfect game with a single in the fourth. Snyder hit the next batter, but struck out the rest of the side to end the inning. She tacked on one more "K" in the fifth to end up with a 13-strikeout, two-hit performance.
Game two was more of the same offensively for Lebanon Valley, as it scored in every inning. Davies scored Sanford in the first, and Sanford, DeJulio and Uhas drove in consecutive runs in the third. Keller scored on an error in the third, and a three-run fourth was keyed by Uhas' two-RBI single. Uhas struck again in the fifth, blasting a three-run homer to end her outstanding day.
Malizzia was effective, going five innings and allowing six hits while striking out seven as she earned her ninth win.
LVC will play its non-conference finale Thursday at Wilkes University starting at 3:30 p.m.
