BLOOMSBURG, Pa. - The Bloomsburg softball team finished its nonconference slate with two victories over Lincoln (Pa.) Tuesday afternoon
The Huskies rode solid pitching performances across both games, with Callie Sowers (Irwin, Pa/Hempfield Area) collecting her third one-hit complete-game shutout of the season and Sarah Yamrick (Fort Myers, Fla./Bishop Verot) and Kelly Eberly (Purcellville, Va/Homeschooled) combining to allow just one run across 7.0 innings in game two. Yamrick earned her first collegiate victory from the bump, tossing 4.0 innings in game two, giving up one run with five strikeouts. Eberly pitched 3.0 shutout frames, escaping a bases-loaded jam in the fifth to keep the Lions at one run in the second contest.

Bloomsburg improves to 26-15 on the season. Lincoln falls to 12-24 overall on the year.

Game One: 
The first game started scoreless after one inning before the Huskies pieced together a big output in the second.

Emma Little (Pittsburgh, Pa./Penn-Trafford) kicked off the scoring with her fourth home run of the season, a solo shot to center field. The next three batters reached base, setting up a RBI single from Kayleigh Lenner (Sunbury, Pa./Shikellamy). Yamrick drove in the next run with a sacrifice fly to make it 3-0 before Lenner Sage Weidlich (Pittston, Pa./Pittston) scored on a wild pitch and Lenner touched home on an error by the Lions to extend the advantage to five.

The game would go scoreless for the next three innings until Bloomsburg wrapped up the first contest in the bottom of the sixth. Three of the first four batters reached for the Huskies, with Jayla Bartholomew (Williamsport, Pa/Williamsport) and Mary Stork (Massapequa Park, N.Y./Massapequa) singling and Bella Culp (Harrisburg, Pa/Central Dauphin) reaching on another Lincoln miscue. Pinch hitting, Taylor Welsh (Pottsville, Pa./Pottsville) took first base on a hit-by-pitch to add to the total as Kammy Kropinski (Conshohocken, Pa./Plymouth-Whitemarsh) followed with a bases-loaded walk to bring the tally to 7-0. Bloomsburg took the victory in game one off a miscue by the Lions' catcher in which the umpire ruled the catcher did not touch home plate on an attempted force out.

Sowers looked in control through the entirety of the afternoon, allowing just three base runners on a walk, an error and a bunt single. The junior finished the afternoon with 13 strikeouts on under 90 pitches. It is the seventh occasion this year Sowers eclipsed double-digit strikeouts.

Game Two: 
The Huskies jumped out to an early lead once again in the second game of the afternoon, scoring two runs apiece in the first two innings to grab a 4-0 advantage. 

Bloomsburg found themselves with runners on the corners and one out, setting up Weidlich to score on a wild pitch and allowing Lenner to advance to third off a miscue by the catcher. Yamrick tapped in the other run with a sacrifice fly to put the Huskies up 2-0.

The lead grew to four in the second after Josie Straigis (Greensburg, Pa./Greater Latrobe) reached on a one-out double. Gianna Gombeda (Hazleton, Pa./Hazleton) stepped into the box and delivered an RBI single up the middle, eventually reaching third on an errant throw by the center fielder. Weidlich drove in Gombeda with a two-out single up the middle.

The Lions scored their lone run of the afternoon in the top of the fourth. With one out and a runner on first, Tia Brown doubled into the gap. Straigis, Taylor Kranzley (Northampton, Pa./Northampton) and Gombeda linked up on the relay throw home to halt Lincoln's initial attempt at scoring. After another single put runners on the corners, a ball hit into right field allowed the runner to score with the Huskies attempting to throw out the batter at first base.

In the fifth, Bloomsburg got back to its scoring ways. Lenner opened the bottom of the inning with a double before touching home on a double from Kranzley to make it a 5-1 game. Mia Nemeth (Drums, Pa/Marian Catholic) singled up the middle in the following at-bat to give the Huskies their largest lead of the contest at five.

Bloomsburg dipped back into the well in the sixth after another sac fly, this time coming from Culp after a Gombeda lead-off double and advancement from a wild pitch. Weidlich and Lenner singled in back-to-back plate appearances, setting up Yamrick to drive in the eighth run of game two for the Huskies.

Eberly put a bow on the afternoon, retiring the side in order in the top of the seventh to secure the sweep for Bloomsburg. Yamrick and Eberly combined for eight strikeouts in game two.

On the Horizon: 
The Huskies jump back into action in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) with a home doubleheader against Kutztown on Friday, April 19, at 2:00 p.m.