Christina Gambino (Basking Ridge, NJ/Ridge) (1-0) earned the victory pitching the final 1.2 innings scoreless, including a perfect bottom of the seventh, to nail down the doubleheader split. Wilkes stands at 1-1 on the season while Shenandoah is 5-5.

After the Hornets controlled game one they jumped ahead 3-0 after three innings in the second game. Haley Welker (Nazareth, PA/Nazareth) then walked to start the fourth inning and later scored on a wild pitch to cut the deficit to 3-1. Shenandoah gained the run back in the bottom half of the inning before the Lady Colonels exploded for five runs in the fifth inning to take a 6-4 lead.

Jordyn Kondras (Willow Street, PA/Lampeter-Strasburg) started the inning with a leadoff triple and scored on a throwing error on Haley Boyd (Escalon, CA/Escalon)'s sacrifice bunt. Staunton then scored Boyd on an RBI triple to even the score at 4-4. Welker and Gambino followed with singles before Kaliyah Moore (South Williamsport, PA/Williamsport) drove in Welker with a base hit. Celine Podlesney (Hazle Twp., PA/Hazleton)'s RBI single brought in pinch runner Mia Lussier (Somerset, MA/Somerset Berkley) to put Wilkes ahead 6-4.

The Hornets answered with five runs of their own in the sixth inning to regain a 9-6 lead and chase Staunton from the game after 5.1 innings. Staunton struck out seven while allowing eight runs on 11 hits. Erika Gerace (Orwigsburg, PA/Blue Mountain) came on in relief before Gambino took over to record the final two outs of the inning on strikeouts as the Hornets left the bases loaded.

The seventh inning rally for the Lady Colonels began when Gambino reach on an error. Moore then singled and Podlesney walked to load the bases with no outs. Sarah Birchmeier (Cherry Hill, NJ/Cherry Hill East) then walked to earn an RBI. With two outs, Moore scored on a wild pitch to cut the Hornets lead to 9-8. A Kondras single brought in Podlesney to tie the game and then Boyd singled to left to move Kondras ahead to second. Staunton then provided the go ahead RBI with a single to center as Kondras came in to score.

Gambino didn't allow a baserunner in the bottom of the inning to nail down the 10-9 victory for Wilkes on a strikeout and two groundouts.

The Lady Colonels racked up 15 hits and six different players recorded a multi-hit game. Kondras went 3-5 with one RBI and two runs scored. Boyd (2-3, one run), Staunton (2-5, two RBI's, one run), Gambino (2-3, one run), Moore (2-3, one RBI, one run), and Podlesney (2-3, one RBI, one run, one walk) all had two hits.

Shenandoah opened game one Sunday morning with a 5-0 lead after three innings. A Staunton single to right scored Sydney Cogswell (Apalachin, NY/Vestal) to provide Wilkes with its first run of the season in the top of the fourth. The Hornets would score three more runs in the fifth to lead 8-1. Welker then came around to score the Lady Colonels second run in the sixth inning when she grounded back to the pitcher but advanced all the way around the bases on two throwing errors by the Hornets.

Staunton (2-3, one RBI) was the lone Lady Colonel with two hits in game one. Podlesney (0-1) went all six innings giving up six earned runs on 10 hits while striking out five.

The Lady Colonels will finish traveling south and start action in the Fastpitch Dreams Spring Classic in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Monday morning. Wilkes faces SUNY Polytechnic Institute at 9:30 a.m. before playing Eastern Mennonite University at 11:30 a.m.