LYNCHBURG, Va. – The No. 12 ranked Maroons of Roanoke College held the Randolph College softball team to just seven hits in two games Saturday, as Roanoke earned an Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) doubleheader sweep of the WildCats with scores of 6-0 and 2-0.

                In game one, both starting pitchers tossed up zeros through the first four frames. The fifth inning saw the Maroons score five runs, as they had two RBI singles as well as being aided by a pair of WildCat errors. Randolph had base runners all day but couldn't get them in, and the Maroons got an insurance run in the sixth inning on a solo shot from Leona Rainey.

                Roanoke starter Stephanie Clark got the win for the Maroons, as she allowed no runs on four hits, walking five and striking out two. Senior Ashley Gardner (Ashburn, Va./Stone Bridge), along with Brittney Via (Charlottesville, Va./Monticello) and Jess Sanabria (Burgaw, N.C./Pender), each had base hits as the WildCats stranded nine runners in the first game. Randolph starter Logan Carter (Richmond, Va./Midlothian) allowed four earned runs and struck out four.

                Game two saw the Maroons (24-5/12-0 ODAC) score right away, as Alea Bier doubled in Rainey to take an early 1-0 lead. Randolph stranded seven runners over the first three innings, but Kristen Hutchinson (Rockville, Md./Richard Montgomery) settled down and stifled Roanoke over the next four innings to keep things deadlocked at 1-0.

                In the bottom of the fifth, Via doubled to lead off the inning for Randolph, but ended up stranded at third. In the next inning, Roanoke added another run as Kelly HIgbie helped her own cause with a RBI ground out. Higbie would go the first six innings, surrendering no runs and three hits, before handing the game off to Ashley Crouch who got the save for Roanoke by working a perfect seventh.

                Senior Brittany Willingham (Glen Burnie, Md./Glen Burnie) moved into fifth all-time on the conference hit list with a single in game two, while Erin Wehrhan (Virginia Beach, Va./Princess Anne) also singled in the contest. Hutchinson allowed four hits in five innings for the WildCats.

                Randolph will now set its sights on a huge league twinbill Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. against the Quakers of Guilford College on the Randolph Softball Field.

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