March 29, 2015
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EASTON, Pa. - Lehigh took both ends of a Sunday softball doubleheader with Lafayette, winning game one 2-0 in a pitchers' duel and game two 8-0 behind a one-hit pitching performance.
Game one was closely contested and saw Lafayette freshman starter Stephanie Thomas hold Lehigh to a pair of runs (one unearned).
The Mountain Hawks started things with a run in the first inning. Nicole Yozzo doubled to lead off the game. Two batters later, Morgan Decker plated her from third.
The only other run of the game came in the top of the fifth. With the bases loaded, Lafayette catcher Rebecca Dvorak tried to catch Carissa Zito straying from third base, but the pickoff throw hit Zito and bounded into leftfield, allowing Zito to score and giving Lehigh the 2-0 lead.
The Leopards had a scoring chance in the bottom of the inning. Dvorak led off with a double and Lafayette head coach Jexx Varner pinch ran for her with Jenna Orlando. Samantha Sweigart moved Orlando to third with a fielder's choice to the right side of the infield. The inning ended, however, when Allison Brown lined out to second and Orlando was doubled off at third.
Lehigh starter Christine Campbell retired the Leopards in order in the sixth and seventh to close out the game. Campbell struck out four while surrendering two hits, both to Dvorak. Thomas scattered eight hits, striking out one and walking one.
In the second game, Lehigh starting pitcher Emily Bausher, the winner on Saturday, was nearly unhittable. She surrendered only one hit, to Sweigart in the fifth, in an 8-0 decision.
Bausher allowed two baserunners on the afternoon, Dvorak joining Sweigart on the basepaths after taking a pitch for the team in the top of the first.
The Mountain Hawks staked Bausher to a 2-0 lead in the second. Vicky Lattanzio tripled and then scored on Jessica Calvini's single. Cassie Waggy (3-for-3) doubled her in for the 2-0 margin.
Lehigh (19-3, 3-0) broke open the game with five runs in the third. Bausher ripped a bases-loaded double to the gap in left centerfield. The two-bagger came off Bryn Gornick who had replaced starter Thomas after two hits and a walk led to a run to start the inning.
The visitors scored their eighth run of the game in the fourth. The speedy Alexis Watanabe (3-for-3) scored from second on a Decker single. Dvorak limited the damage in the inning, throwing out Yozzo on a stolen base attempt at third when she slid past the bag.
In the fifth, Sweigart broke up Bausher's no-hit bid with a one-out single to center before Lehigh closed out the five-inning victory.
Lafayette (1-19, 0-3) travels to Penn on Wednesday before hosting Army in a three-game series on Easter weekend.