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Lebanon Valley 6, Franklin & Marshall 0
Lebanon Valley 10, Franklin & Marshall 9
ANNVILLE, Pa. - Lebanon Valley rallied from six runs down in game two to sweep a doubleheader from Franklin & Marshall and push its winning streak to a program-record 15 games.
The Valley (17-3) drilled a combined 25 hits over the two games as they surpassed the 14-game win streak record set by the 2011 team.
Katie Deardorff became the second Dutchman in as many days to record her 100th career hit, going 3-for-4 in the nightcap to join teammate Steff Secola as the 11th member of LVC's century club.
Haley Neff (5-0) won both games, twirling a two-hit gem in the opener after carrying a perfect game into the sixth, then pitching an inning of scoreless relief for
Holly Langdon in the second game as LVC rallied.
Sam Derr earned a two-inning save in game two.
Derr started LVC's scoring in the opener, coming across on a wild pitch in the first, then scoring off Neff's RBI single in the third and knocking in
Tessa Deardorff an inning later. The Dutchmen put three on the board in the fifth, first when
Alexa Maddy brought in
Emily Johnson, then on back-to-back RBI singles by Harris and Derr.
Game two seemed to be going the same way after Hartman singled in
Tessa Deardorff in the first, but F&M's bats quickly awoke for a five-spot in the second, including two-run singles by Amanda Schellaci and Sam DeNoville. Nichole Casey's two-run double in the fourth ran the lead to 7-1.
LVC combined two big innings to come back from the deficit, scoring four in the fourth sparked by
Kim Ortiz-Marrero's two-run triple, and then manufacturing four more in the fifth to take the lead. Johnson singled in Derr to start the rally before
Mary Readinger's hit tied the game at 7-7; Ortiz-Marrero took a bases-loaded hit by pitch to put LVC ahead, and
Tessa Deardorff's sacrifice made it 10-8.
The sides traded runs in the sixth, with Casey knocking in Danielle Murphy in the top half and Johnson plating Secola for LVC in the bottom for what would ultimately prove to be the winning run. F&M scored another in the top of the seventh, but Derr worked out of trouble and snagged Schellaci's liner up the middle to end the game.
The Dutchmen will return to Commonwealth Conference play Saturday, hosting Messiah at 1 p.m.