EASTON, Pa. – Lafayette scored three runs in the second inning and never looked back in a 6-4 victory over Wagner in non-conference softball action on Wednesday afternoon.
 
It was a rare mid-week single game for the Leopards who were coming off a bye weekend in Patriot League play and returned to a windy day at Metzgar Fields.
 
Lafayette's offensive efforts in the second inning were aided by a pair of Wagner errors. Natasha Miner (single) and Bella Lowdermilk (fielder's choice) each drove in runs and another scored on a throwing error.
 
Lafayette put the lead-off batter on in the first three innings and it continued to pay off in the third. Kaya Ciccone-Cozart led off with an infield single. Jasmine Nguyen, who pinch ran for her, later scored on a first-and-third steal play, sacrificing an out for the team's fourth run.
 
Wagner got the run back in the fourth inning, scoring on a two-out single by Bianca Worthy. The inning ended with the lone run as Worthy was cut down trying to take an extra base on the single. Lafayette led 4-2.
 
The Leopards answered with a pair or scores in the bottom half of the fourth inning thanks to RBI-singles from freshmen Harlie Bickett and Ciccone-Cozart. Ciccone-Cozart contributed her first three-hit game of the season.
 
The Seahawks started to hit Leopard starting pitcher Kinzi Van Wyk in the fifth inning. She left the game with one out in the inning after giving up an RBI-double to Kate Wolf and a run-scoring single to Mackenzie Vogler to trim Lafayette's margin to 6-4. Leopard reliever Kailee Sawai used a pop up and a strikeout to end the inning.
 
Sawai was efficient in her 14^th appearance of the season, allowing just a bunt single in two and two-third innings to earn the first save of her career. Van Wyk registered her fifth win of the season, allowing four runs on seven hits with a strikeout.  
 
The Leopards will continue a busy mid-week swing, heading to Drexel for a doubleheader on Thursday at 2 p.m.