HARRISONBURG, Va. - Senior
Makayla Calamita totaled five hits and four RBIs to lead the McDaniel College softball team to a doubleheader sweep over Eastern Mennonite Friday at Gehman Field.
The Green Terror (2-0) totaled 13 runs on 19 hits as they snapped a two-game losing streak in season openers.
Calamita finished the day 5-for-7 with a double and one walk for a .750 on-base percentage. She was one of six players who had at least two hits and one of four to record one for extra bases.
Senior
Mandy Butz went 4-for-7 while freshman
Riley Jackson was 2-for-6 with a double and two RBIs.
McDaniel 3, Eastern Mennonite 1 (Game 1)
Calamita got things started quickly in game one, picking up the first hit of the season in the top of the first before scoring the team's first run on an RBI-single by freshman
Ashley Shawyer in her first career at-bat.
Holding a one-run lead, Calamita pushed it to 3-0 with a two-run single to center that scored Jackson and junior
Bella Sylvester.
Inside the circle, junior
Hannah Costa held the Royal offense at bay, losing the shutout with two outs in the bottom of the seventh on a single to center. However, she picked up her 10th win in 13 career starts, scattering seven hits over 7.0 innings and allowing just one walk while striking out three.
Calamita had two of the team's five hits, going 2-for-3 with two RBIs. Shawyer was 1-for-3 with one RBI.
McDaniel 10, Eastern Mennonite 2 (Game 2)
The Green Terror jumped out to a 7-0 lead in game two, scoring five runs in the top of the second. Jackson got things started with an RBI-double to left for her first career hit that scored Butz before Sylvester and junior
Olivia Dresser followed with consecutive RBIs to pushed the lead to three.
Back-to-back errors cost Eastern Mennonite two unearned runs, the last of which came on an RBI-double to right by senior
Paytyn Hazelton.
McDaniel maintained its five-run lead into the fifth before freshman
Libertie Schatzman hit a sacrifice fly to score Hazelton and an RBI-double by Calamita in the sixth, extended the advantage to seven.
The Royals (0-3) answered with two unearned runs in the bottom of the sixth before the Green Terror added three of their own in the top of the seventh to provide the final margin.
Calamita finished 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs while Butz also went 3-for-4 with two runs scored. Jackson was 2-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored.
Schatzman earned the win in her first career start as she did not allow an earned run and surrendered just four hits while striking out two.
McDaniel returns to action on Sunday, March 10 in Leesburg, Florida when it kicks off Spring Break against Wisconsin-Platteville and Occidental at The Spring Games.