Softball | 4/15/2012 3:57:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2     ELKINS, W.Va. –Timely hitting and solid pitching were the formula for success Saturday afternoon as the West Liberty University softball team swept a West Virginia Conference doubleheader at Davis & Elkins by scores of 6-2 and 9-3.
    Sara Emerich led the way for Coach Jim Bacca's Hilltoppers (10-35, 5-13) in the circle. She teamed with Becky Fortuna on a three-hitter in the opener, picking up the win with 3.1 innings of hitless relief, before finishing off the sweep of the Senators (20-25, 6-12) with a complete-game win in the second game.
    In the first game, Leanna McMillen snapped a 2-2 tie with an RBI single in the top of the fifth and Jennifer Young broke things open with a two-run, two-out double later in the frame. Young also tacked on an insurance tally with an RBI double in the top of the seventh.
    Stacey Sumner had staked West Liberty to an early lead with a two-run single in the top of the first. McMillen and Irene Fadul joined Young with multiple-hit games for the visitors.
    The Hilltopper bats turned a close game into a runaway in the nightcap, as well, storming back from a 3-1 deficit with a three-run uprising in the top of the third and putting the game out of reach with four more runs in the top of the fourth.
    Felicia Hulslander had a huge game, driving in six runs with a triple, double and single. McMillen added two more singles while Sumner homered and drove in three runs.
    West Liberty swings right back into action on Sunday with a 1 p.m. doubleheader at West Virginia Wesleyan.
 
SOFTBALL
West Liberty 6, Davis & Elkins 2
West Liberty             200 030 1 – 6  8  0
Davis & Elkins          020 000 0 – 2  3  3
    WL: Fortuna (3SO, 3W), Emerich wp (4) (3SO, 2W) and Sumner. Young 2D, 3rbi; McMillen 2S, rbi; Fadul 2S; Sumner S, 2rbi
    DE: Jones lp (7SO, 2W), Appleby (6) (3SO, 2W) and Dunn. Kennon 2S, 2rbi
 
West Liberty 9, Davis & Elkins 3
West Liberty             103 401 0 – 9  8  2
Davis & Elkins          210 000 0 – 3  9  3
    WL: Emerich wp (2SO, 2W) and Burke, Johnson (3). Hulslander T, D, S, 6rbi; McMillen 2S; Sumner HR, 3rbi
    DE: Appleby lp (4SO, 1W), Jones (3) (2SO, 2W) and Dunn. Kennon 3S, rbi; Dunn 2S; Ours HR, 2rbi