Softball

Delaware Valley 6, Drew University 0 (Game 1)
Drew University 4, Delaware Valley 2 (Game 2)

DOYLESTOWN (PA) - Kirstyn Ruhling pitched a four-hit shutout in game one as Delaware Valley College earned a split of its Freedom Conference doubleheader with visiting Drew University. The Aggies took the opener, 6-0, before a 4-2 loss in the nightcap.

The split moved Delaware Valley's record to 8-15 overall and 2-6 in conference play while the Rangers saw their mark go 12-9, 2-4.

Ruhling, a freshman, won her sixth game in 11 decisions as well as her first collegiate shutout. She walked one, struck out five and allowed just two Drew runners to reach second base in the game.

Drew hurlers Kristin Valle and Dayna Yorks combined to match Ruhling until the sixth when the Aggies sent 10 batters to plate and touched them for six runs on four hits. Ruhling began the inning by drawing a walk from Yorks and Maureen Ferguson came in to pinch run. Jenn Welsh followed with a walk and Kim Harle moved both runners into scoring position with a sacrifice bunt.

Christine Bowie hit a grounder to short that was misplayed and both Ferguson and Welsh scored and Bowie moved to second. Fawn Harmer singled Bowie in for a 3-0 lead and Nicole Dorney followed with a single. Katie Leach's then ripped a double to score Harmer and sent Dorney to third. That brought Valle back into the game for Drew and Kelly Andrews greeted her with a RBI single. Leach scored the sixth and final run on a wild pitch.

Andrews was a perfect 3-for-3 with one RBI. Harmer was 2-for-3 with a run scored and a RBI while Dorney went 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored.

The Aggies' bats went silent in the second game as they managed just four hits off of Allison Robbins. Both runs were unearned as Robbins went the distance and fanned two.

Delaware Valley jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first as Dorney's double to right field scored Harle. The Rangers matched it in the second on a RBI groundout by Robbins.

Drew took the lead for good in the third inning as Kristen Mignoli hit a one-out home run over the left field fence. The Rangers upped the lead in the fifth Deb Waz's single scored Brittany Westcott.

The Aggies made it a one-run ballgame in the sixth as Harmer reached on an error and came around to score two batter later on a ground out by Andrews. Drew put an insurance run across the plate in the seventh as Meghan Santaniello was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.

Jennifer Bummer suffered the loss for Delaware Valley, despite allowing just three runs (one earned) and five hits in four-plus innings. Stephanie Raziano pitched two-plus innings of relief and permitted one run on three hits.