Lehigh University
Lafayette
Lehigh completes four game sweep of Lafayette
4/5/2005 12:00:00 AM | Softball
The Leopards got off to the fast start in game one, taking a 2-0 lead in the top of the fourth and then, after Lehigh scored two in the bottom of the first to tie, scored a run in third and one in the fourth to lead 4-2 heading into the bottom of the fourth. Lehigh pulled even in that frame as a Mendy Martin single plated Julie Sterrett and then freshman Kate Marvel singled to drive in pinch runner Ali Linsk.
The game would stay scoreless until the bottom of the sixth when Taryn Hanley singled on a perfectly placed squeeze bunt, scoring Whitney Schenbeck with the go ahead run. The Mountain Hawks would add an insurance run and then Emily Ling shut the door in the seventh. Ling pitched two innings of scoreless relief to notch her 11th win of the season. Marvel was 3-for-3 with two runs scored and one driven in. Six different players drove in one run apiece for the Brown and White.
“In the first game
In game two Lehigh scored early and often against
Ling started in the circle and pitched two innings before giving way to Stefanie Forlenza, who pitched the final three innings to improve to 4-0 on the season. Game two was called after four and a half innings due to the eight run rule.
The Mountain Hawks will return to action on Thursday when they will step out of conference to play a doubleheader with
