Mantle No-No's Delaware Valley in Sweep
Combines with Reese for a Pair of 1-0 Wins
Game 1 Box Score / Game 2 Box Score

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. --- Lycoming softball senior hurler Morgan Mantle (Jersey Shore, Pa./Jersey Shore) highlighted a pair of strong pitching performances on Thursday with a no-hitter in game one and the save of a combined three-hitter in the second contest as the Lady Warriors swept two games from Delaware Valley College by a set of 1-0 scores.  Lycoming improves to 7-5 overall, 4-2 in the Freedom Conference while the Aggies fall to 7-10, 0-4.

Mantle faced only three above the minimum and retired the first 15 Aggies she faced in moving her record to 4-2 in the afternoon’s opening affair.  She fanned 12 batters and surrendered two walks and an error to account for Delaware Valley’s three runners.

Senior Kristen Reese (State College, Pa./State College) began her 6.1 strong innings of work with nine straight outs on her way to winning game two and pushing the blue and gold to a four game winning streak.  She surrendered only three hits while whiffing six and walking one.  Mantle recorded the final two outs on called third strikes to strand the tying runner at first and pick up the Lady Warriors first save of the season.

Offense didn’t come easily for Lycoming either.  In game one, it took until the seventh inning before Lycoming broke through.  Sophomore Dana Marek (Bloomfield, N.J./Bloomfield) led off the inning with a single to left center.  After senior Christine Caroselli (Newtown, Pa./Pennsbury) sacrificed her to second, Marek scampered to third when junior Melissa McCoy (Williamsport, Pa./Jersey Shore) singled to center.  It looked as if the runners would be left on base when Mantled grounded out to third, but a wild pitch by Kirstyn Ruhling allowed Marek to score the go-ahead run.

Lycoming received plenty of help in scoring the only run of the nightcap.  With one out in the sixth inning, freshman Marissa Hasting’s (Old Forge, Pa./Old Forge) drew the Lady Warriors’ fourth walk of the game.  She moved to third when DVC catcher Nicole Dorney misplayed a sacrifice bunt by Reese.  A second Aggie error of a sacrifice attempt, this time by pitcher Stephanie Raziano, allowed Hastings to score the lone run.

The Lady Warriors look to run their winning streak out to six games this Saturday, April 1, as Lycoming welcomes the University of Scranton to Williamsport.  First pitch of game one is set for 1:00 p.m. at the Shangraw Athletic Complex.