Box Score 1 Softball
Susquehanna 7, Lebanon Valley 6 (10 inn.)

SELINSGROVE, Pa. - Susquehanna walked off with a 7-6 win in a wild 10-inning game Wednesday that saw 11 runs scored in extra innings.

The Dutchmen (27-5-1) scored four in the eighths and one in the 10th to take leads both times, but Susquehanna won on Sarah Bush's single in the bottom of the 10th. Game two of the doubleheader was halted in the third inning due to rain.

Despite the non-conference loss, LVC received good news as Messiah split with Alvernia, which had been tied for first in the Commonwealth Conference with the Dutchmen. That results means that at least one win off of Elizabethtown on Saturday will secure the CC's #1 seed for LVC, which will host the tournament May 3-5.

Allie Hartman put LVC on the board first at Susquehanna, knocking in Katie Deardorff with a single in the fifth, but Susquehanna answered back in the bottom of the inning to tie it 1-1.

The game stayed that way until the eighth, when LVC took advantage of a Susquehanna error to manufacture four runs. Steff Secola brough home Emily Johnson, and Deardorff's double scored another before Alexa Maddy cleared two off the bases with her single.

The Crusaders (29-6) did the same thing on their turn as two early LVC errors - which ended a streak of 48 errorless innings for the Dutchmen - led to four SU runs. After a scoreless ninth, LVC took control in the top of the 10th with Mary Readinger's sacrifice fly to score Kelli Valle. Susquehanna, however, tied the game on a single by Clark in the bottom of the inning, and Bush walked off with a single to win 7-6.

Sam Derr was hit with the loss, just her fourth of the year. She struck out eight over 9.2 innings. Ashley Cole earned the win in relief, pitching two full innings for starter Morgan Lewis.

The Dutchmen end the regular season Saturday at Elizabethtown.