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GRANTHAM, Pa. – The Gettysburg College softball team made Head Coach Ashley Mowery's return to her alma mater a perfect one as the Bullets swept Messiah College for the first time since 2005 in non-conference action at Starry Field on Wednesday.
 
Gettysburg (9-9) ended Messiah's (12-6) 11-game winning streak with a 9-5 victory in the opening game. In the nightcap, Messiah (12-6) sliced a seven-run deficit to three, but senior Taylor Snyder (Little Silver, N.J./Red Bank Regional) slammed the door with two scoreless innings of relief as part of a 7-4 decision.
 
Mowery, an All-American field hockey player for the Falcons from 2006 to 2009, saw her team end a four-game losing streak to Messiah. The Bullets jumped on the board early in the opener as sophomore Melissa Tighe (Little Falls, N.J./Mt. St. Dominic Academy) drew a lead-off walk and came around to score on a double by Maggie Maguire (Madison, Conn./Daniel Hand) in the opening inning. The Falcons answered in the home half with a run to tie the game.
 
The Bullets added single runs in three of the next four innings, failing to cross home plate only in the third. Freshman Steph Zengel (High Bridge, N.J./North Hunterdon) handed the visitors a 4-1 lead with her fourth home run of the spring to lead off the fifth inning.
 
Maguire drove in two more runs in the sixth before Messiah mounted a comeback. Each of the first five Falcon batters reached base with the first three coming in to score to slice the lead to 6-4.
 
Gettysburg answered in the top of the seventh with the first four batters reaching base en route to three more runs. Senior Joy Hallfors (Mt. Airy, Md./Linganore) drove in the final run with a single to push the lead to 9-4. The Falcons would score another run in their final at bat before sophomore Lindsey Treanor (Holtsville, N.Y./Sachem East) finished the game with a grounder to the mound.
 
Snyder (3-4) picked up the win in the opening game after allowing four runs on seven hits and striking out one. Treanor threw the final two innings to earn her second save of the season.
 
Maguire went 2-for-3 with a walk and three RBI. Tighe reached base four times with a single and three walks and came around to score three runs. Hallfors, senior Sam Bader (York, Pa./Central York), and junior Brooke Kalman (Edgemont, Pa./Penncrest) each tallied two hits in the opener.
 
Gettysburg continued the hot-hitting in game two with two runs in the opening inning. Hallfors came around to score on a passed ball, while Zengel scored on a sacrifice fly by sophomore Ashley Iannone (Great Meadows, N.J./Blair Academy). The Bullets would add an unearned run in the third to jump out to a 3-0 advantage.
 
In the fourth inning, Tighe ignited another offensive surge with a one-out triple. She scored on an error before Zengel, Maguire, and Iannone recorded back-to-back-to-back hits to plate two more runs. Maguire made it a 7-0 lead after scoring on a sacrifice fly by senior Katie Lang (Kennebunk, Maine/Kennebunk).
 
After managing just four hits in the first four innings against freshman hurler Michelle Fox (Newton, N.J./Blair Academy), Messiah connected on five base knocks and scored four runs in the fifth. Sara Dietrich and Katie Souders each posted two-run doubles to pull the score to 7-4.
 
Snyder entered the game in the bottom of the sixth and tossed two scoreless innings en route to her first career save. Two runners reach base via errors, but the senior put a stamp on the win by striking out Souders to end the game.
 
Fox improved to 4-3 after allowing four runs on nine hits and striking out two. Snyder fanned two in her stint on the mound. Tighe reached base two more times and scored twice in the nightcap, while Maguire and Iannone each posted a pair of hits.
 
Hallfors continued to climb Gettysburg's career charts with a hit and two runs scored in game two. She became just the seventh Bullet to reach 100 career runs and now ranks sixth with 102. Hallfors continued her assault on the all-time hits list, leaping into a tie for third with 162. She trails all-time leader Mandy Wilson '02 by just 12. Also of note, Maguire climbed into eighth on Gettysburg's RBI list with 82.
 
Gettysburg resumes its Centennial Conference schedule at Swarthmore College on Saturday, March 30, at 1 p.m.