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Box Score 2 OWINGS MILLS, Md. - The Stevenson softball team totaled four errors and a combined 11 hits as ninth-ranked Salisbury recorded 30 hits and four home runs en route to a non-conference doubleheader sweep over the Mustangs Wednesday afternoon at Weinberg-Fine Stadium.
The Mustangs (5-13) have never beaten their former CAC-rival in 33 all-time meetings and were shutout for just the second time this season in the opening 14-0 loss. Stevenson dropped the second game, 14-2 in six innings.
The hosts managed just three hits in the opener and held the Sea Gulls (19-4) scoreless through four innings until a lead off home run in the top of the fifth inning by Molly Simpson ignited the Salisbury bats.
The Sea Gulls scored twice in the fifth before adding five in the sixth and seven in the seventh.
The trio of senior Kristen Mueller, sophomore Jasmyn Ogletree and freshman Erin Stephey combined for the Mustangs hits. Sophomore Brooke Steinbach went 4.2 innings in the pitching circle, allowing two earned runs and striking out two.
The Sea Gulls scored five runs in the first inning of game two but all five runs were unearned as Stevenson totaled three errors in the inning.
With Salisbury holding an eight-run lead, senior Emily Soller hit her fourth home run of the season to get the Mustangs on the board. The hosts added a second run in the bottom of the sixth inning on an RBI double by junior Naomi Fields.
Senior Molly Hoyt went 2-for-3 at the plate.
Stevenson returns to action on Saturday, April 2 when the Mustangs travel to Lebanon Valley for a MAC Commonwealth doubleheader beginning at 1:00 p.m.
