Softball | 3/13/2021 5:26:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2     WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. – The West Liberty University softball team swept a non-conference doubleheader from Ohio County rival Wheeling on Saturday, prevailing by scores of 5-3 and 10-4 at the WLU Softball Complex.
    In the opener, the Hilltoppers (4-4) scored three unearned runs in the bottom of the fifth to snap a 2-2 tie and made them stand up for the win. Annie Paterson had 8 strikeouts and 1 walk in four innings in the circle while helping her cause at the plate with a double and single. Allie Cook also doubled and singled to chase in a run.
    In the finale, West Liberty exploded for 5 runs in the bottom of the first and never looked back. Kat Donzella and Laral Saunders had RBI singles during the first-inning uprising.
    Donzella and Cook paced an 11-hit barrage for Coach Herb Minch's Hilltoppers with three hits each. Donzella had two singles and a two-run homer to drive in three runs while Cook had two singles and a double for two RBIs. Saunders added a single and a double while Katie Beeman singled twice and drove in a run.
     Wheeling                                           000 021 0 – 3  6  4
West Liberty                                     001 130 x – 5  6  0
     WU: Brodeur (2SO, 0W), Bumbico (1SO, 0W) and Smith. Bennett 2S; Hradek D, 2rbi; Brodeur D, rbi
     WLU: Paterson (8SO, 1W), Bonnett (0SO, 0W), Amend (3SO, 2W), Garcia (0SO, 1W) and Donzella. Cook D, S, rbi; Paterson D, S
  Wheeling                                           000 022 0 –   4    8  2
West Liberty                                     512 002 x – 10  11  1
     WU: Lafferty (1SO, 0W), Kemp (1SO, 1W), Macy (2SO, 2W) and Fogle. Florczak D, S, rbi; Hradek 2S, rbi; Webber 2S, rbi
     WLU: Bennington (7SO, 1W), Garcia (0SO, 0W), Amend (2SO, 0W) and Donzella. Donzella HR, 2S, 3rbi; Cook D, 2S, 2rbi; Saunders D, S, rbi; Beeman 2S, rbi