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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Gettysburg College softball team picked up its first Centennial Conference sweep of the season by posting a pair of victories over visiting Swarthmore College Saturday at Bobby Jones Field.
 
Gettysburg (16-4, 3-1 CC) came out on top 5-4 in a back-and-forth battle in the first contest against Swarthmore (8-14, 1-3 CC). The Bullets cruised in the nightcap 8-1.
 
The Garnet jumped out to an early lead in the opener. Lead-off hitter Marit Vike set the stage by running out an infield single in front of the plate and quickly stealing second base on the next pitch. She came around to score on a double by Christen Boas Hayes.
 
Gettysburg answered in the home half of the frame as junior Jamie Abell (Glenn Dale, Md./Elizabeth Seton) led off with a triple to center field. Swarthmore nearly got out of the situation unscathed, but a wild pitch with two outs allowed Abell to slide into home to tie the game.
 
The visitors tacked on two runs in the second inning, including one on a double to left field by Vike. Swarthmore was poised for more damage with the bases loaded and one out, but a good old-fashioned 4-6-3 double play put the threat to bed.
 
In the third inning, Abell continued her hot hitting by ripping a double to left-center to score a run. Sophomore Mykaela Twitchell (Cumberland, Maine/Greely) followed with a single to bring home Abell and tie the game 3-3.
 
After Swarthmore scored a run in the top of the fifth to regain the advantage, the Bullets brought across two unearned runs in the bottom of the inning. Abell reached on an error with two outs and after stealing second base, she came home on a single by senior Steph Zengel (High Bridge, N.J./North Hunterdon). Sophomore Wendy Folfas (Westminster, Md./McDonogh School) followed with a single to bring home Twitchell, who drew a walk after Abell reached base, with the go-ahead run.
 
Sophomore Aileen Reilly (Huntington Station, N.Y./St. Anthony's) retired the side in the top of the seventh to pick up the win and improve to 9-4. She struck out six while allowing four runs on nine hits.
 
Abell finished 3-for-4 with three runs and an RBI in the opening game and started off the nightcap with a bang, pulverizing a pitch over the fence in right field. Twitchell and Zengel logged back-to-back triples and Folfas followed with a sacrifice fly to make it 3-0.
 
The Garnet picked up one run in the second but that was the extent of their offense as freshman Morgan Clauser (Columbus, N.J./Northern Burlington) scattered nine hits and struck out three over seven innings. She remained perfect at 7-0 this spring.
 
Gettysburg posted four runs in the third inning to blow the game open. Junior Sam Misurell (Franklin Park, N.J./Bishop George Ahr) slapped a run-scoring single down the right-field line and sophomore Stephanie Leonardo (East Haddam, Conn./Choate Rosemary Hall) blasted a two-run double to left. Sophomore Jessica Casale (Cranford, N.J./Cranford) cranked a double off the wall in left to plate Leonardo in the third inning and she logged an RBI single in the fifth to close the scoring.
 
Casale finished 3-for-3 with two RBI. Misurell, Leonardo, and Folfas each went 2-for-3. Leonardo also scored a pair of runs and drove in two. Zengel picked up a pair of hits, a run, and one RBI in the nightcap. Her single in the fourth put her in a tie with Melissa Tighe '15 for the program's all-time lead in hits at 190. The base knock also gave her the program record for most career total bases at 283, passing the former mark held by Mandy Wilson '02. Zengel has Wilson in her sights for the career RBI mark as well as she trails the former Bullet by just three with 117.
 
Gettysburg hosts a doubleheader with Dickinson College on Tuesday, April 5, at 3 p.m.