OWINGS MILLS, Md. - Eastern Softball concluded its regular season on Sunday with a doubleheader sweep of Stevenson. The Eagles scored four early runs in the opener en route to a 7-3 win. In the nightcap, first-year pitcher Annaleise McCubbin went the distance, giving up two hits with four strikeouts in her first collegiate win. The Eastern offense also lifted McCubbin up, recording 12 hits in an 8-0, run-rule victory.

Eastern struck early and often in the opener, taking a four-run lead into the bottom of the first inning. Mackenzie Laub started the scoring with an RBI triple, and back-to-back doubles from Emily Kurth and Tori Hook pushed the Eastern lead to three. Maeve Colligan capped off the inning with the single though the left side.

The Eagles added single runs in each of the third, fourth, and seventh innings. Colligan made it 5-1 Eastern on an infield RBI single in the third, Laub hit her second RBI with an single in the fourth, and Ostolaza capped off the Eastern scoring with a double in the seventh.

Jania Long (13-3) capped off her tremendous regular season with her 13th win, allowing just seven hits and one earned run with four strikeouts. Long finished the regular season with a season-low 2.14 ERA, the best of her career, and 38 strikeouts, second on the pitching staff.

The Eagles finished with 13 hits in the opener, with six Eagles finishing with two hits apiece. Laub, Colligan, Kurth, Hoook, Ostolaza, and Maura Yoos combined for 12 hits and seven RBIs.

In her first start of the season, McCubbin (1-0) was brilliant, pitching five scoreless innings with just two hits allowed and three total baserunners on 74 pitches.

After two scoreless frames, the Eastern offense came alive. Hook drove in the Eagles' first run on a bases-loaded walk in the third, before Eastern added on four runs in the fourth. Alyssa Binczak began the scoring with an RBI single, before Ainsley O'Donnell hit a two-run triple and Laub scored Sophie Rollins on an RBI groundout.

The Eagles completed the run-rule victory with three more runs in the fifth. Yoos drove in Kellie O'Brien with an infield single, Colligan scored on a Stevenson throwing error, and Rollins capped off the scoring with an RBI single to center field.

Eastern (27-7, 12-2) will travel to Messiah next weekend for the 2025 MAC Commonwealth Tournament.