Softball Sweeps Panthers

FERRUM, Va. - Shenandoah University battled both the cold and a tough Ferrum College club Tuesday night in a USA South Conference softball sweep over the host Panthers.

Shenandoah (22-8, 11-3 USA South) kept its hopes alive for the league's regular season title with 5-2 and 7-6 wins over the Panthers (15-15, 7-7).

SU has four league games left, at home on Friday and against Greensboro Saturday at the Moyer Complex in Salem. With four wins in those games and a Methodist sweep over CNU, Shenandoah and the Captains will tie for the regular season title.

In Tuesday's game one, senior Katie Haskins improved to 12-2 by scattering seven hits in the complete game victory. She struck out eight and walked just two as she won her 10^th straight decision.

Haskins got the job done at the plate as well - she was 2 for 3 while Marlee Camplese and Jesse Khosravi-Heins both drove in two runs.

Camplese also drove in what proved to be the game-winning run when she doubled in Cat Beuerle in the third. Beuerle had led off the frame by being hit by a pitch and was sacrificed to second.

Heins played the hero in the nightcap with a seventh inning solo home run to secure the one-run victory.

Heading into the sixth, SU found itself trailing 6-2 after Ferrum took control of the contest with a five-run fourth and one more in the fifth.

Coach Marlena Kotynski's team got itself back into it with four runs on three hits in that sixth inning - sophomore Cat Pruiett had the big hit with a two-out, three-run single to score Jess Robertson, Ashley Plaugher and Heins.

Freshman Brooke Over (7-5) was the winner after matching Haskins with eight strikeouts in a complete game outing.

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Shenandoah continues USA South Conference play with a noon doubleheader on Friday against Averett University.