Softball

Delaware Valley College 8, Lycoming College 0 (Game 1)
Delaware Valley College 9, Lycoming College 0 (Game 2 - 5 innings)

WILLIAMSPORT (PA) - Junior pitchers Kirstyn Ruhling and Jennifer Bummer notched complete-game shutouts and fellow junior Kelly Andrews knocked in a combined seven runs as Delaware Valley College continued one of its best starts in program history with a doubleheader sweep at Freedom Conference foe Lycoming College, 8-0 and 9-0.

The Aggies, who have not played a game in two weeks, improved to 9-1 overall and 2-0 in the Freedom Conference. In fact, the nine wins in March are already more victories than the team notched for an entire year in seven of the 10 last campaigns. Lycoming took the field for the first time in 2007 and fell to 0-2, 0-2.

Ruhling improved to 4-0 as she allowed two hits and two walks in seven innings of the opener. Bummer went five innings in the nightcap (game called after five innings due to the eight-run mercy rule) and allowed just four hits while striking out five to up her record to 3-1.

Andrews, a second-team all-conference selection in '06, went 1-for-3 with four RBIs, including a three-run homer in the first game. She followed with a 3-for-4, three-RBI effort in the nightcap.

Andrews put Delaware Valley on the board in the offense with a sacrifice fly in the first inning. The Aggies also scored a run off an error in the stanza. They added two more in the fourth, including an RBI single by Ruhling, who went 2-for-3 in the game.

In the seventh, Lacy Miles singled home a run to make it 5-0 and Andrews put the contest away with a two-out, three-run shot - her first of the season - over the left-center field fence.

Delaware Valley wasted no time in the nightcap as it scored five runs off of four hits and one Lycoming error. Kim Harle led off with a single, moved to second on a sacrifice fly and scored on an RBI single by Brittany Stockert. Stockert moved to second on the attempt to get Harle at the plate and she then scored on a single by Kelly Andrews. An error and a walk loaded the bases and Bummer helped her own cause by driving in a run with a ground out. Robyn Jackson then delivered a two-run single for a 5-0 advantage.

The Aggies notched runs in the second and fourth on an RBI single by Nicole Dorney and a Lady Warrior error on another ball hit by Dorney. They then added two more in the fifth on a two-out, two-run single by Andrews.

Stockert finished 3-for-4 with two runs scored and one RBI while Jackson was 1-for-2 with a pair of RBIs. Miles was 1-for-2 and scored two runs to give her four on the afternoon.