SALEM, Va. – The top-ranked Salisbury University softball team swept through the Roanoke Maroons on Tuesday to begin its three-day spring trip. The Sea Gulls collected a 6-1 win in the opener before erasing an early deficit with a 5-3 victory in game two.

HOW IT HAPPENED – GAME 1

• After Lindsey Windsor got on through a base on balls and stole second, Lauren Meyers knocked her in with an RBI single to get the Sea Gulls on the board in the first inning.
• Abby Mace pushed SU's lead up to 3-0 in the top of the second inning with a two-run infield single that scored Jillian Dawson and McKenna Horner.
• Roanoke broke through the run column in the sixth inning on a flyout to right field that allowed Lily Burns to score all the way from second base.
• Windsor gave SU insurance in a big way in the top of the seventh inning with a three-run blast over the left-center field fence that extended the lead to 6-1.

SALISBURY GAME NOTES – GAME 1

• Abby Mace got on base three times with a pair of hits and a walk. She also drove in a pair of runs in the second inning on a two-RBI single.
• Lindsey Windsor (W, 5-0) hit her second home run of the season with her seventh-inning three-run dinger. She also earned her fifth win of the season with four strikeouts. Windsor allowed seven hits, two walks and a run.
• Nicole Ortega pitched a scoreless seventh inning with a three-up, three-down.

HOW IT HAPPENED – GAME 2

• Serenity Bishop put Roanoke on the board in the bottom of the first inning with an RBI single to score Meri Bostic.
• Maddison Lednum and Lauren Meyers hit back-to-back RBIs to give SU the one-run lead in the third inning. Lednum hit an infield single to score Natalie Paoli. Meyers followed with an RBI groundout to plate Abby Mace.
• Bishop knocked in her second RBI of the game in the bottom half of the third to tie the game at two.
• Mace brought home two runs in the top of the fourth on an RBI single to right to score Jillian Dawson and Madi Lemon.
• Roanoke cut the lead in half, 4-3, in the bottom of the fifth with an RBI single by Kate Houte.
• Paoli pushed SU's lead back up to two, 5-3, in the top of the seventh inning on an RBI infield single to score Sam Flowers.

SALISBURY GAME NOTES – GAME 2

• Natalie Paoli collected a career-best four hits in the nightcap. She also stole two bases, drove in and scored a run.
• Abby Mace went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored.
• Sam Flowers also went 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored in the win.
• Madison Taylor (W, 4-0) pitched four innings of relief for Savannah Sheats. Taylor only allowed two hits, three walks and a run with a strikeout. Sheats sat down two batters on strikes om three innings.

UP NEXT

• Salisbury looks to win the season series against the 16th-ranked Lynchburg Hornets tomorrow.
• The doubleheader begins at 2 p.m.

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Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with the New Jersey Athletic Conference for football, Coastal Lacrosse Conference for men's lacrosse and the Metropolitan Swimming and Diving Conference for men's and women's swimming. With over 500 student-athletes in 21 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, and dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on-and-off the field. The Sea Gulls have celebrated 22 team national championships, 24 individual national champions, 188 conference championships and 43 Academic All-Americans.

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