The Emory softball team kept up its winning ways on Friday, sweeping a doubleheader against Bridgewater College.  The Eagles registered a 3-2 victory in the opener before rolling to a five-inning, 12-0 triumph in the finale.  Emory has won its last 20 games and stands 29-1 on the year.  The two setbacks left Bridgewater's record at 4-14.

Emory pounded out 13 hits in the second game against BC.  Senior center fielder Alyssa Pollard collected a pair of safeties in three plate appearances while scoring twice and knocking in three runs.  Junior Taylor Forte went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBIs.  Freshman shortstop Cassie Baca and sophomore first baseman Ashley Powers also hit safely on two occasions.  After a scoreless first inning, Emory scored five times in the second.  Forte singled in Powers with the game's first score, before a bases-loaded clearing double by Pollard pushed Emory to a 4-0 advantage.  Pollard would later score when sophomore Janelle Turnquest singled.  Emory put the game out of reach with a seven-run explosion in the third, highlighted by freshman Lana Herrmann delivering a three-run homer, her sixth round tripper of the season, and senior catcher Melody Carter socking a two-run double.  Junior Brittany File and freshman Toko Miller combined for a one hitter with File earning the win in the circle, her 22^nd in 23 decisions, tossing three hitless frames while Miller went the last two innings.

In the opener, Emory was held to a season-low tying three hits but managed to come away with the win. The Eagles got on the board in the top of the first when a ground out by Baca scored Jenna Wilson after she started the game by drawing a walk.  The score remained that way until the bottom of the six when BC pushed across two runs, the last one coming on a single by Mariah Wharton that plated Brianna Cox.  Undaunted, the Eagles scored a pair of unearned runs in the top of the seventh with freshman Emmeryn Wheelan getting hit by a pitch with the bases loaded that allowed Pollard to cross the plate with game-winning run.  Freshman Madeline Maday got the win in relief, going two thirds of an inning in relief of starter Audrey Weller, who tossed the first 5 1/3 frames, allowing two runs and six hits while striking out two.  File earned the save after hurling the seventh inning that saw her escape a two-on, one-out situation by striking out the last two batters.

Emory returns to action on Saturday (Mar. 26) when it plays a doubleheader at Roanoke College with action beginning at 1:00 pm.