Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Softball
#14 Lebanon Valley 11, Arcadia 0 (5 inn.)
#14 Lebanon Valley 3, Arcadia 2 (10 inn.)

GLENSIDE, Pa. - Sam Derr's go-ahead two-run double in the 10th inning of game two helped #14 Lebanon Valley sweep Arcadia in a Commonwealth Conference series.

At 24-3 overall and 13-1 in league play, LVC is a game ahead of Messiah with two left to play. The Dutchmen have one series left, against third-place Alvernia, and must sweep them or have Messiah lose one of their last four games to clinch the spot.

Derr earned both wins to improve to 15-0 this season, shutting out Arcadia in the opener and pitching six innings in relief of Haley Neff in the nightcap.

Katie Deardorff became LVC's all-time leader in runs scored, breaking the record in the opener driven in, appropriately, by her sister Tessa. With three runs on the day, she has 98 for her career.

Game One
LVC pounded out 13 hits for 11 runs, including a six-run fourth, to run-rule Arcadia 11-0 in the opener.

Jordyn Miller and Katie Deardorff each drove in a pair of runs among eight different Dutchmen with an RBI, while Tessa Deardorff scored three runs and Sammy Bost and Allie Hartman had a pair each.

A Miller single scored two runs in the first before Emily Johnson's sacrifice fly made it 3-0, and Tessa Deardorff's RBI double and Bost's single made it 5-0 through two.

Derr helped herself with an RBI single in the fourth, sparking the six-run rally that included RBI singles by Hartman and Liz Bauer, a two-run triple by Katie Deardorff, and Angela Harris driving her in on an error later in the inning.

Derr scattered six hits and struck out five to improve to 14-0 as she recorded her ninth shutout of the season.

Game Two
Lebanon Valley was shut down offensively by a hot start from Arcadia's Erin Wilson, but rallied back with tying run in the seventh to force extras before winning in the 10th.

LVC fell behind in the third when Nicole Larro scored unearned on an error, and was held in check by Wilson, who struck out the first seven batters she faced. Down to their final three outs, Katie Deardorff reached on an error to lead off the seventh and advanced to second; after Johnson sacrificed her over, Jorey Aumiller drove in the tying run to force extras as Derr held Arcadia in check in the bottom half.

The Dutchmen left Bost on second in the eighth and runners on second and third in the ninth, and Derr got out of a jam later that inning, forcing Arcadia to strand the winning run on second.

The international tiebreaker came into effect in the 10th inning, and after Mary Readinger advanced and Bost reached on an error, Derr doubled down the line to bring both in an lead 3-1.

Arcadia's placed runner, Amanda Tomaschek, came in on a double steal in the 10th, but Arcadia left runners on the corners as Derr induced a pair of groundouts and a pop-up to short to end the game.

Neff went four innings and struck out three, not allowing an earned run. Wilson (8-7) fanned 11 in 10 innings in a 131-pitch effort for the Knights.

Next Time
LVC heads to DeSales on Monday for a 3 p.m. start. The doubleheader will be broadcast live on Service Electric 2 in the Lehigh Valley area.