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SCRANTON – Kristy Ordile (Bellmawr, N.J./Triton Regional) and MeLisa Bracone (Farmingville, N.Y./Sachem East) each tallied four hits in the first game to lead the Wilkes to a 9-1 win in the first game over Scranton. The Royals would score a run in the bottom of the 10th inning in the second game to win 7-6 as the two teams split a double header.

In the first game, Ordile and Bracone accounted for eight of the team's 13 hits, while Sarah Miller (Wyoming, Pa./Bishop Hoban) picked up her first home run of the season to snap the Lady Colonels three-game losing skid. Ordile had three singles and a triple, while Bracone scored and drove in a run.

The Lady Colonels jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the first four innings before Scranton got on the board with its lone run in the bottom of the fifth. Wilkes would tack on two more runs in the top of the ninth to all but put away the Royals.

Wilkes got on the board first in the top of the second inning on two hits, including Miller's two-run blast to center field, scoring Cori Salter, who reached on a walk. The two runs would be all starter Lindsay Behrenshausen (Mt. Holly Springs/Boiling Springs) would need, as she picked up her third win of the season after throwing five innings, giving up one run off four hits.

The Lady Colonels busted out for four runs in the next frame thanks to three-straight hits by Gina Stefanelli (Wilkes-Barre, Pa./Meyers), Bracone and Keelia Mailander (Allentown, Pa./Dieruff). Mailander's hit would drive in Stefanelli before Bracone would cross home plate on a Scranton error. Saltzer's single to left plated Mailander to give the Lady Colonels a 6-0 advantage.

The top of the fourth saw Ordile triple down the left field line and would later score on a Bracone single to left.

Scranton would pick up three of their five hits in the bottom of the fifth, scoring it's only run, but left the bases loaded as Behrenshausen pitched a groundout to end the threat.

Ordile picked up her fourth hit of the game, an RBI single to center to score Saltzer, after Kerry Finnerty (Old Forge, Pa./Old Forge) scored from third on an error.

In the second game, Wilkes jumped out to a 5-0 lead after five innings, but the Royals came back to tie the game in their final two at-bats. Both teams would score a run in the eighth before Scranton would win the game on a walk-off single.

Alyssa Ciesla (Branchville, N.J./High Point) grounded out to second, but was enough to score Stefanelli, who led off the inning with a single. In the fifth inning, Sarah Elliot and Amanda Holston (Georgetown, Del./Sussex Central) hit back-to-back one-out singles before Kathy Dalton (Neptune, N.J./St. Rose) doubled down the right line to score Elliot. Stefanelli would follow suit with a double to right center scoring both Holston and Dalton. She would go 3-for-5 in the game with two runs batted in and two runs scored.

Scranton erupted for six hits in the sixth inning, two of which were for extra bases, including a leadoff home run. A two-out rally in the seventh that saw the Royals capitalize on a Wilkes error as well as back-to-back hits. Three of their 13 hits would come in the seventh inning.

The Lady Colonels would break the tie when Erin Plank (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin East), who reached on an error, would come around to score on a base hit by Ordile. Scranton committed two errors in the inning, but Wilkes was unable to capitalize as it left the bases loaded.

Wilkes would have a defensive let down in the bottom of the eighth with two errors that resulted in a game-tying run. The pitching combination of Maureen Pelot (Kirkville, N.Y./Chittenango) and Kaitlyn Kormanik (Johnstown, Pa./Richland) combined to give up just four earned runs in the loss.

In the bottom of the 10th inning, the Royals would get a base hit, scoring the runner from second base. Once the game went into extra innings, the international tie-break rule was in effect where a runner is placed on second base to start the inning.

Wilkes will remain on the road when it faces William Patterson in a double header on Sunday starting at 1 p.m.