The Lancaster Bible softball team moved back to the .500 mark on Wednesday as the Chargers took both games of a doubleheader at Summit University in Clarks Summit, Pa. The Chargers won game one, 10-0 and took game two in 9-0. Both games ended after five innings as Lancaster Bible improved to 8-8 this season, while Summit fell to 3-11.

Game 1: Lancaster Bible 10, Summit 0
How it Happened: Lancaster Bible opened the scoring in the second inning as the Chargers took advantage of a Summit error that led to two runs and then scored the other two runs on passed balls. The Chargers tacked on five more runs in the third inning as both Julia D'Arrigo and Ali Morton hit two-run triples in the inning, while Zoie Senn added a sacrifice fly. Richelle Kane's sacrifice fly in the fifth inning capped the scoring as she drove in Samantha Denson.

Chargers' starter Kelsey Collins improved to 3-4 this season as she allowed just two hits over five innings and struck out a season-high nine batters.

Inside the Box Score: D'Arrigo finished 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBI...Courtney Koser was 2-for-2 with two walks...Morton finished 2-for-3 with two RBI, while Kelsey Collins was 2-for-4...Denson and Kane were both 2-for-3 with two runs scored.

Game 2: Lancaster Bible 9, Summit 0 
How it Happened:  The Chargers wasted no time getting on the scoreboard in game two as Collins tripled in the first inning which scored D'Arrigo to make it 1-0. Next batter up Morgan Burkholder singled back through the middle to score Collins and make it 2-0 and the Chargers were off and running. After the Chargers capitalized on another error to make it 4-0, Morton hit another two-run triple in the third inning to give the Chargers a 6-0 advantage. 

After a Senn RBI single in the fourth, the Chargers tacked on runs eight and nine via sacrifice flies and won, 9-0. D'Arrigo earned her fourth win of the year as she matched Collins with just two hits allowed. D'Arrigo struck out five and did not walk a batter as she lowered her earned run average to 4.65.

Inside the Box Score: Lancaster Bible had just seven hits in game two and no player had more than one...Senn was 1-for-2 with two runs scored and an RBI, while D'Arrigo was 1-for-3 with two runs scored...Morton was 1-for-2 with three runs driven in and Ashli Schmidt 1-for-1 with a run scored...McKayla Smucker was 1-for-3.

Extra Bases: Lancaster Bible is now 3-4 all-time against Summit (formerly Baptist Bible) and according to Lancaster Bible softball program history, Wednesday's wins against the Defenders are the first since the 1987 season...D'Arrigo continues to lead the NEAC with 23 runs batted in and is also tops in the conference with five home runs.

Up Next: Lancaster Bible opens North Eastern Athletic Conference play on Saturday as the Chargers host Penn St. Berks at 1 p.m.