LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – The Lock Haven University softball team’s (21-5, 6-0 PSAC West) pitching staff surrendered just two hits in a double-header sweep of Edinboro University (7-9, 1-6 PSAC West) 10-0 and 14-0 at Lawrence Field today (April 6). LHU’s bats pounded out 29 hits for a staggering 24 runs on the day.

With today’s first win, Lock Haven head coach Kelley Green reached the 20-win plateau for the second-straight season, and third of the last four. She now has 125 career victories.

In game one, LHU posted six runs in the first inning, paced by a two-run home run by junior second baseman Heather Johnson (Williamsport , Pa./Williamsport) and a three-run shot by senior catcher Janet Paterson (Frederick, Md./Walkersville). Paterson finished game one 2-for-2 with two runs scored and three RBI.

The Lady Eagles would tack on another four runs in the third, all with two outs. The big blow in the inning came off the bat of sophomore third baseman Stephanie Hallowell (Eagleville, Pa./Methacton), a two-run single.

The game ended in the fifth by 10-run rule, with junior Shona M. Guevara (Chino Hills, Calif./Humboldt State University) allowing just one hit in four innings with four strikeouts, improving to 11-3. Edinboro’s Vanessa Rose (4-2) took the loss, lasting just an inning.

Game two was more of the same, as the Lady Eagles put three runs on the board in the first. Hallowell tripled home a run, followed by Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) West and Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Player of the Week Courtney Hughes’s (Schwenksville,Pa./Souderton) double for the first Lady Eagle runs.

Lock Haven could do no wrong in the fourth inning, as the first five LHU batters reached base, and five Haven hitters hit RBI singles in the nine-run inning.

Paterson would finish the second game at 2-for-3 with a run scored and three RBI, for a two-game effort of 4-for-5 with three runs and six RBI.

This game was also shortened to five innings,

junior hurler Jeanette Middlestead (Coatesville, Pa./La Salle University) went four, allowing just one hit and fanning five Fighting Scots, improving to 8-1 on the year. Mary Lynn Arlotta (2-1) went 3.1 innings in the loss.