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Blue Hen softball team sweeps Penn doubleheader

Michelle Plant scores the game-winning run as the Hens edge Penn.

9:41 a.m., April 21, 2004--The University of Delaware softball team swept a doubleheader from the University of Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon at Delaware Field, with senior Laura Streets collecting three hits and driving home the game-winning runs in both games.

The Fightin’ Blue Hens won the first game 2-1 in eight innings and won the second game 4-1.

With the wins, UD improved to 21-17 on the season. It is the second straight year the Hens have won 20 games and the seventh time in the last eight seasons.

The Hens will travel to Villanova University for a doubleheader this afternoon, then will return home to host a Colonial Athletic Association series against the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Games will be played at noon Saturday and Sunday at Delaware Field.

In the first game against Penn, Streets hit a triple to score Michelle Plant with the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning.

Carolynn Sloat picked up the win to raise her record to 13-10. Sloat, who extended the school record for wins in a season by a freshman, scattered five hits, struck out four and did not walk a batter.

Sloat earned her CAA-leading 19th complete game of the season. She also leads the CAA in wins and strikeouts. Her total of 127 strikeouts is a school record for a freshman and the fifth-highest single season total in UD history.

In the second game, UD rallied from a 1-0 deficit with a four-run fifth inning. Streets gave the Hens the lead for good when she adjusted to an off-speed pitch and pushed it through the right side of the infield for an RBI single and a 2-1 lead.

Two batters later, Liz Winslow followed with a two-run single to center.

UD used four pitchers in the second game, with Lindsay Jones picking up the win. It was the first win of the season for Jones, who had been sidelined with a knee sprain.

Sloat earned the save in the second game by pitching a scoreless seventh. It was her second save of the season.

Jones, Jenn Joseph and Sloat combined to pitch no-hit ball over the final four innings after starter Kelsey Knapp was lifted after a lead off walk to open the fourth inning. Knapp, a freshman, allowed just two hits and two walks while striking out five in her second collegiate start.

With three hits on Tuesday, Streets moved into fourth place on the UD career hit list with 171.

Streets is also trying to become the first Blue Hen in 22 years and just the fourth in UD history to hit better than .400. Her average is .405.

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