ST. DAVIDS, Pa.- After dropping a heart-breaker on the weekend Eastern University Softball bounced back to sweep a home doubleheader against Widener. Janelle Fair and Maggie McGowan each picked up wins and home runs in the sweep.
Fair took a perfect game into the seventh inning of the opener, but the visiting Pride rallied to take a 4-3 lead and force the home team to bat in the seventh. Kelly Vogelgesang delivered the big blow with a two-run homer.
The Eagles walked the bases loaded in the bottom of the inning and Jaimie Schwartz delivered a double to give the Eagles the result int he opener. Schwartz also knocked in the first run of the game to put the Eagles up in the second inning. Megan Polulak and Sam Terenzoni also knocked in runs for the home side.
McGowan took her spot in the circle for game two. The visitors grabbed the early lead on a strange sacrifice fly in the top of the first. With Meg Phillips on second, Jen Nance hit a deep fly ball to left that Louise Fox tracked down as she ran into the fence. Fox held the catch, but by the time she was able to get the ball back on the right side of the fence, Phillips was rounding third and scoring.
Eastern grabbed the lead on RBI doubles from McGowan and Fair in the fourth, but the Pride struck back for two in the top of the fifth to lead 3-2. Vogelgesang hit her second homer of the day to start the inning. Fair and McGowan would get a chance o hit in the sixth after Jaclyn Gangemi reached on an error. Fair put the Eagles up with a blast to left, and McGowan added an important insurance run with her school-record seventh of the year. Her shot was a no-doubter to center.
When the second batter of the sixth singled, Fair moved to the mound to close out the game. She struck out two of the five batters she faced to pick up the save.
The Eagles (13-7) return to action on Saturday with an important Freedom Conference doubleheader against Manhattanville.