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GETTYSBURG, Pa.  – The Gettysburg College softball team managed to get in a little yard work before the rain came as the Bullets slammed a pair of two-run homers en route to a 10-5 victory over Susquehanna University Tuesday afternoon.
 
Gettysburg (17-13) was unable to complete the sweep against Susquehanna (19-11) as thunderstorms halted game two in the top of the fourth inning with the hosts leading 4-3. The nightcap was called on account of the weather and darkness and will not be made up.
 
The Bullets wasted no time getting on the board with a pair of runs in the opening inning. Junior Melissa Tighe (Little Falls, N.J./Mt. St. Dominic) and freshman Jamie Abell (Glenn Dale, Md./Elizabeth Seton) led off with a walk and single, respectively, and came in to score on a sacrifice fly by sophomore Steph Zengel (High Bridge, N.J./North Hunterdon) and a double by senior Maggie Maguire (Madison, Conn./Daniel Hand).
 
Zengel and Maguire started another scoring run in the third, the former drawing a walk and the latter legging out a bunt in front of home plate for a hit. Junior Emily Hall (Reston, Va./Flint Hill School) knocked in both runners with a double to left-center.
 
With Hall on second and two outs on the board, senior Abby Ferguson (Harrisburg, Pa./Trinity) smashed her first home run of the spring over the fence in center field to push the lead to 6-0.
 
The Bullets went big fly in the very next inning as well with Zengel blasting her team-leading fourth home run to bring in Abell, who was hit by a pitch.
 
Susquehanna chipped away at the lead with two runs in the top of the fifth and two more in the sixth, cutting the advantage to 8-5. Gettysburg padded the margin in the bottom of the sixth with a run-scoring single by sophomore Meghan Hisgen (East Northport, N.Y./Commack) and a sacrifice fly by Hall.
 
Sophomore Michelle Fox (Newton, N.J./Blair Academy) picked up the win to improve to 8-7. She allowed three runs on five hits over five innings.
 
Abell reached base three times with a hit, a walk, and a hit-by-pitch and scored three runs. Hall went 2-for-3 with three RBI and Zengel drove in three and scored twice.
 
Gettysburg visits Elizabethtown College for a non-conference doubleheader on Thursday, April 24, at 3 p.m.