Softball Sweeps Angels

WINCHESTER, Va. - Shenandoah University earned its first sweep of the USA South Conference softball season Saturday afternoon with 11-0 and 4-3 victories over Meredith College.

Shenandoah (13-7, 4-2 USA South) needed only five innings to dispatch the Avenging Angels (9-9, 5-3) in the opener.

Senior Katie Haskins (7-2) was dominant for the Hornets, allowing just a pair of Arelle Stout singles and striking out seven as she won her fifth straight decision.

Haskins also figured prominently with the bat - she had two singles in two at-bats and scored what proved to be the game-winning run.

SU had eight hits in the game, with Haskins and Cat Pruiett getting two apiece.

Jordan Smith (6-5) was tagged with the loss after allowing seven runs (six earned) on five hits and five walks in 2.0 innings.

With game one halted after five innings due to the NCAA mercy rule, Haskins started and pitched the first three frames of game two. She departed with the Hornets leading 4-2 following a three-run third.

Freshman Brooke Over (3-4) followed Haskins into the pitching circle, and earned the win by scattering three hits and one run in four innings of relief work. She also struck out three.

Three straight singles provided Shenandoah with the winning runs in the nightcap; Ashley Plaugher and Jesse Khosravi-Heins had the latter two hits and also each drove in a run.

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The Hornets host Greensboro on Sunday at 1:00 in another USA South Conference doubleheader.