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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Senior Steph Zengel (High Bridge, N.J./North Hunterdon) took over the top spot on Gettysburg College's career hit list as the Bullets wrapped up a sweep of Dickinson College in Centennial Conference softball action at Bobby Jones Field.
 
Dickinson (6-18, 3-5 CC) opened both games with a run in the its first at bat, but the Red Devils only mustered two additional runs in the remaining 12 innings. Gettysburg (18-4, 5-1 CC) took the opener 5-2 and the nightcap 8-2.
 
Zengel came into the day tied with Melissa Tighe '15 with 190 career hits. After watching Dickinson put up a run in the top of the first, the senior right fielder didn't waste any time breaking the deadlock, knocking a hard hit off the first baseman's glove in her first at bat. Junior Jamie Abell (Glenn Dale, Md./Elizabeth Seton) advanced to second base on the play and two batters later, she came around to score on a single by senior Meghan Hisgen (East Northport, N.Y./Commack).
 
One swing of the bat put the hosts in front to stay in the second inning. With runners on second and third, Abell pummeled a belt-high pitch down the right-field line for her second homer of the spring.
 
A home run by Grace Edelson in the top of the fourth cut Gettysburg's lead to 4-2. The Bullets tacked on an insurance run on a single by freshman Meredith Taylor (Hamilton, N.J./Northern Burlington) in the fifth inning.
 
Dickinson stranded a runner on base in each of its final two at bats with sophomore Aileen Reilly (Huntington Station, N.Y./St. Anthony's) closing the game with a strikeout. Reilly improved to 10-4 this season after surrendering two runs (one earned) on five hits, while striking out five.
 
Zengel and Abell each finished 2-for-4 with the latter adding two runs and three RBI. Hisgen and junior Sam Misurell (Franklin Park, N.J./Bishop George Ahr) each went 2-for-3.
 
Edelson brought in game two's first run with a single in the first inning. The Bullets came through in the third, taking advantage of three errors and posting four runs on four hits. After one run came home via an error, Zengel received new life when her pop-up near home plate was dropped. She took advantage by slicing a hard drive down the left-field line for a double to bring home two more runs. Folfas added a run-scoring single to make it 4-1.
 
A run by the Red Devils in the fifth prompted another offensive outburst by the hosts. In the home half of the frame, the Bullets loaded the bags on consecutive hits by Zengel, Folfas, and Hisgen. Dickinson nearly escaped the inning after getting a strike out and force out at the plate, but sophomore Stephanie Leonardo (East Haddam, Conn./Choate Rosemary Hall) was hit on the arm to plate one run. Sophomore Jessica Casale (Cranford, N.J./Cranford) followed with a bases-clearing double to left-center to push Gettysburg in front 8-2.
 
Freshman Morgan Clauser (Columbus, N.J./Northern Burlington) improved to 8-0 with the victory. She allowed two runs on four hits and fanned two.
 
Zengel went 2-for-4 with a run and two RBI and she extended her hitting streak to 19 games, just two shy of her own school record set last season. The senior has another Gettysburg record in sight as she is just one RBI shy of the career mark held by Mandy Wilson '02 (120).
 
Folfas went 2-for-4 with one RBI and Hisgen went 2-for-3 with a run. Abell extended her career-long hitting streak to 16 games by going 1-for-2 with a walk and hit-by-pitch.
 
Gettysburg returns to action against Ursinus College on Sunday, April 10, at 1 p.m.