LYNCHBURG, Va. – The top-ranked Salisbury University softball team avenged its only loss of the season on Wednesday with a doubleheader sweep over the 16th-ranked Lynchburg Hornets. Salisbury run-ruled Lynchburg, 9-1, in the first game before taking the second game, 9-3.

HOW IT HAPPENED – GAME 1

• It didn't take long for Salisbury to get runs across. Three doubles in four at-bats by Abby Mace, Lindsey Windsor and Lauren Meyers put SU up 2-0. After a pitching change, Maddison Lednum scored on an RBI sacrifice fly by Emily Stockman to extend the lead to 3-0.
• A leadoff triple by Mace in the third inning led to a Windsor RBI double followed by an RBI single by Lednum to push SU's lead to 5-0.
• Salisbury added two more runs in the top of the fourth. Jillian Dawson scored after she stole third and advanced on the throwing error by the Lynchburg catcher. Meyers plated Windsor later in the inning on an RBI single to center to give the Sea Gulls the 7-0 lead.
• After five no-hit innings, Savannah Sheats allowed her lone run of the game on a solo home run to lead off the bottom half of the fifth by Gracie Dooley.
• However, Salisbury got that run back and added another to the run column after Meyers hit a two-run home run over the left-center field fence to extend the lead to 9-1 and put the run-rule in effect.

SALISBURY GAME NOTES – GAME 1

• Eight of the nine Salisbury starters tallied a hit in the win and combined for seven extra-base hits.
• Lauren Meyers led the team with a 3-for-4 day with her second home run of the season, a double and four RBIs
• Abby Mace and Maddison Lednum each went 2-for-3 and scored twice. Mace notched a double and a triple.
• Lindsey Windsor collected a pair of doubles and scored three times with two RBIs. Windsor also pitched the fifth and sixth innings with four strikeouts.
• Savannah Sheats (W, 4-0) had a no-hitter going until the fifth inning. She finished the day with a pair of punchouts, two walks, two hits allowed and a run.

HOW IT HAPPENED – GAME 2

• Carrie Jacoby blasted a solo shot over the center-field fence in the second inning to begin the scoring.
• Maddison Lednum hit a little-league home run in the top of the third to push SU's lead to 4-0. She roped a triple down the right-field line. Lynchburg threw the ball away on the relay to allow Lednum to score.
• Taylor Scott scored on an RBI groundout by Natalie Paoli after a leadoff double by Jacoby to extend the lead to 5-0 in the fourth.
• Karle Cundiff put Lynchburg on the board in the bottom of the fourth on an RBI double.
• Salisbury got the run back in the top of the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Emma Coldsnow that scored Lednum.
• Salisbury tacked on two more runs in the sixth. Lindsey Windsor scored Paoli on a sacrifice bunt that was thrown away by the Lynchburg defense. Later in the inning, Jacoby drew a bases-loaded walk to put SU ahead 8-1.
• A Kaleigh Hackett RBI single and a bases-loaded Sarah Watts walk cut into the SU lead, 8-3, in the sixth.
• An infield single by Windsor allowed Jillian Dawson to score to give Salisbury insurance and a 9-3 lead in the seventh.

SALISBURY GAME NOTES – GAME 2

• Carrie Jacoby went 3-for-3 with a solo homer in the second, a double and two RBIs.
• Lindsey Windsor and Maddison Lednum each went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and a pair of RBIs. Lednum hit a double and a triple in the win. Windsor (W, 5-0) also earned the win in four innings. She struck out four and scattered four hits with a run.
• Nicole Ortega and Madison Taylor came in relief of Windsor. Ortega struck out three while Taylor sat down a pair.
• Madi Lemon tallied a double in the victory.

UP NEXT

• Salisbury will conclude its Virginia trip tomorrow with a pair of games against Randolph.
• The doubleheader is set to begin at 1 p.m. in Lynchburg, Va.

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