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The hitting was in fine form Tuesday night.\u00a0 Wednesday on Senior Day, the pitching followed suit in a sweep of Randolph-Macon.\u00a0 With the wins, Eastern Mennonite clinched the sixth seed in this weekend’s ODAC Tournament and earned a repeat date with the Yellow Jackets, who finished as the third seed.\u00a0 The teams will play Friday at 2:00pm in Salem.\u00a0 The double elimination tourney culminates in the ODAC Championship on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Wednesday night’s rescheduled doubleheader was played under the lights at Harrisonburg High School.<\/p>\n

EMU 6, Randolph-Macon 1
\n<\/strong>The women got plenty of hits of R-MC ace Heather Lewis, who entered with an ERA of 0.93.\u00a0 Molly Smith<\/a><\/strong> (Elkton, VA\/Spotswood) started a four-hit rally in the second with a leadoff single.\u00a0 Taylor Sellars<\/a><\/strong> (Powhatan, VA\/Powhatan) and Brooke Hensley<\/a><\/strong> (Elkton, VA\/Spotswood) each had RBI singles to put EMU on top, 2-0.<\/p>\n

Rasheeda Crews<\/a><\/strong> (Brookneal, VA\/William Campbell) got plunked on the helmet to open the third.\u00a0 After a Smith single, Courtney Allman<\/a><\/strong> (Mt. Solon, VA\/Fort Defiance) launched a homerun over the left field wall, scoring three for a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Lisa Lee<\/a><\/strong> (Buckingham, VA\/Buckingham County), meanwhile, was in fine control of her pitches, allowing only three hits through five innings.\u00a0 But the Yellow Jackets broke the shutout with a wind-aided homer to open the sixth.<\/p>\n

Lee got the run back in the bottom of the frame, shooting a laser beam to center for her eighth longball of the year.\u00a0 She then sent the Yellow Jackets down in order in the seventh to secure the 6-1 win.<\/p>\n

The Lady Royals out-hit R-MC 9-4 in the opener, with Lee and Smith each getting a pair of hits.\u00a0 Lee went the distance from the circle to improve to 10-4.<\/p>\n

EMU 9, Randolph-Macon 6<\/strong>
\nThe Yellow Jackets scored an unearned run to take a lead in the top of the first, but EMU responded in a big way in the second.\u00a0 Sara Jenkins<\/a><\/strong> (Stanley, VA\/Page County) led off with a homer to left, her third in the last four games.\u00a0 Allman hit a one-out single and two bunt singles later the women had the bases loaded.<\/p>\n

The Royals had a runner thrown out at home for the second out of the inning.\u00a0 Hensley came through in the clutch, however, with a bases-clearing double.\u00a0 Lee hit an RBI infield single and Crews followed with a two-run bomb, capping a seven-run outburst for the lead.<\/p>\n

R-MC looked for a big inning the fourth, but only scored one run.\u00a0 The visitors left the bases loaded when Megan Viafora<\/a><\/strong> (Stanley, VA\/Page County) tracked down a fly ball in the right center field gap, leaving the score 7-2.\u00a0 In the sixth, the Yellow Jackets plated another single run before leaving two on when Viafora made an inning-ending catch in a similar spot.<\/p>\n

Rachel Breeden<\/a><\/strong> (Shenandoah, VA\/Page County) cranked a two-run shot to straightaway center in the bottom of the frame, pushing the lead back up to six at 9-3.\u00a0 The breathing room was needed as the visitors added a three-run homerun in their final at-bat, producing the 9-6 final score.<\/p>\n

The women had an advantage in hits, 10-7, to help escape for defensive errors.\u00a0 Eight of the nine starters had at least one hit.\u00a0 Hensley was 2-4 while Jenkins finished 2-3.\u00a0 Viafora singled and walked and scored both times.<\/p>\n

Smith, 7-2, pitched the complete game victory.\u00a0 Only four of the six runs she allowed were earned.<\/p>\n

The Lady Royals snapped a season worst three-game losing skid with the wins and are getting hot at just the right time, with the ODAC Tournament starting on Friday.\u00a0 EMU hit five homeruns against Randolph-Macon after getting four the night before against Virginia Wesleyan.<\/p>\n

At 25-11 overall and 9-9 in the ODAC, the women are tied for the third-most wins in program history.\u00a0 They finished 27-13 last spring and 30-13 in 2008.<\/p>\n

Below is full schedule for day one of the ODAC Tournament.<\/p>\n

Friday, April 27<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Game 1: #1 Virginia Wesleyan vs. #8 Emory & Henry – Field 1 – 12:00 p.m.
\nGame 2: #4 Lynchburg vs. #5 Bridgewater – Field 3 – 12:00 p.m.
\nGame 3: #2 Roanoke vs. #7 Randolph – Field 1 – 2:00 p.m.
\nGame 4: #3 Randolph-Macon vs. #6 Eastern Mennonite – Field 3 – 2:00 p.m.
\nGame 5: Loser G1 vs. Loser G2 – Field 1 – 4:00 p.m.
\nGame 6: Loser G3 vs. Loser G4 – Field 3 – 4:00 p.m.
\nGame 7: Winner G1 vs. Winner G2 – Field 1 – 6:00 p.m.
\nGame 8: Winner G3 vs. Winner G4 – Field 3 – 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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