Softball

Delaware Valley 1, Elizabethtown College 0 (Game 1 - 9 innings)
Delaware Valley 6, Elizabethtown College 5 (Game 2)

DOYLESTOWN (PA) - Kelly Andrews went a combined 4-for-7 with four RBIs, including the game-winning double in the ninth inning of the opener as Delaware Valley College ended its season with a non-conference doubleheader sweep of visiting Elizabethtown College, 1-0 and 6-5.

The Aggies, with just one senior and no juniors on their roster, finished the 2006 campaign with a 15-20 overall record for the second-highest, single-season victory total in program history. The Blue Jays fell to 8-23 with the pair of losses.

The first game saw Delaware Valley's Kirstyn Ruhling and Elizabethtown's Alex Lee match each other in a great pitcher's duel. The two kept the game scoreless through regulation and the eighth inning. In the ninth, Elizabethtown moved it runner - intercollegiate extra-inning rules puts a runner on second base to start a stanza - to third base on a sacrifice bunt by Claire Davis. However, Ruhling induced Megan Ottey into a ground out back to the mound while Marian Guzik popped out to second to end the threat.

In the bottom of the ninth, Kristin Lup went to second to start the inning and Andrews, the Aggies' leading hitter (.385), came to bat. The sophomore third baseman drove a 1-0 pitch into the left-center field gap for a double and the game-winning RBI. It was Andrews' second hit of the game and it marked the second time in a week that she hit a ninth-inning double to win a game.

Ruhling allowed just six hits over the nine innings while improving her record to 7-9. The sophomore walked four and struck out four. Lee fell to 5-14 despite giving up just five hits and three walks while fanning seven. Kelli Thon went 3-for-4 to pace Elizabethtown.

Delaware Valley hit the scoreboard quickly in the nightcap as Andrews' RBI single and Nicole Dorney's double gave the squad a 2-0 lead.

However, the Blue Jays scored their first runs of the afternoon in the third as they loaded the bases with two outs and Lauren Dressler followed with a two-run single for a 2-2 ballgame. Elizabethtown then took the lead in the fifth as Kelly Johnson ripped a two-out double to bring home pitcher Tanya Konek.

The Aggies regained the lead in the fifth as they scored four runs off of five hits. The two big blows in the inning was a two-out, two-run double by Lacy Miles and, two batter later, a two-run single by Andrews.

The Blue Jays made things interesting with a pair of runs in the sixth on RBIs by Thon and Guzik, and put the tying run on second in the seventh, but that was as close as they would come. Nikki Zimmerman picked up the win in relief for the Aggies as she pitched the final three-plus innings and allowed three runs on six hits. Andrews went 2-for-3 with three RBIs while Kim Harle was 2-for-3 with two runs scored.

Konek, who took the loss on the mound, went 3-for-4 with an RBI at the plate. Johnson had two hits in three at-bats while Dressler was 1-for-3 with two RBIs.