Box Scores: Game 1  |  Game 2

BOWIE, Md. – Senior Danielle Wissinger had five hits and five RBIs, including her second home run of the season, and junior Katherine Liedberg had six of East Stroudsburg University's 13 steals on the day as the Warriors returned to action with a doubleheader sweep at Bowie State on Wednesday afternoon.

ESU (6-9) took the opener by a 7-2 final before escaping with a 9-8 victory in 10 innings in Game 2. Freshman Kaylee Hazewski added two hits and two steals in Game 1, while senior LHP Rachael Liguori allowed only one earned run and registered her 38th career complete game in the circle.

Sophomore Madison Vicendese went 3 for 5 with a triple and two runs scored in the nightcap. The Warriors led 6-2 heading into the seventh inning before the Bulldogs (8-12) scored four times to send the game to extras. ESU plated two in the 10th on an error and an RBI sacrifice bunt by junior Heather Visco, and a game-ending double play with runners on the corner in the bottom half of the inning clinched the victory.

Wissinger was 2 for 4 with three RBIS in the Game 1 and 3 for 5 with two RBIs and two runs scored in Game 2. She has driven in a team-high 21 runs this season, and has multiple RBIs in six contests.

The Warriors end the year with a 3-1 record against the Bulldogs. After entering the afternoon leading Division II in stolen bases per game (4.0), they were successful on all 13 attempts in the doubleheader and are now 65 for 69 on the year (94.2 percent).

ESU begins PSAC play this weekend, traveling to Millersville on Friday (1 p.m./3 p.m.) and hosting West Chester on Saturday (1:00 p.m./3 p.m.). Any potential changes due to forecasted rain will be announced as soon as they are available

Game 1: ESU 7, Bowie State 2

The Warriors were aided by seven Bowie State errors which led to four unearned runs in the opener. The first of those runs came in the second inning, tying the score up at 1-1 after the Bulldogs had grabbed an early lead in the first.

ESU moved in front with a pair of runs in the top of the fourth. A sacrifice fly from junior Madison Oren scored senior Rae Holden after she had reached on an error to begin the frame. Liedberg was next up, and she drew a walk, moved into scoring position on her second steal of the contest and scored on an error by Bowie State's right fielder to make the score 3-1.

An RBI triple by Wissinger and another Bulldog error upped the margin to 5-1 in the fifth, and the Warriors plated two more in the following inning on Wissinger's two-run, two-out double.

Liguori worked 1-2-3 innings in the second and fifth frames, and she surrendered only four hits across seven innings of work. She is now ranked 10th all-time in program history in career complete games. Five of her 38 career complete games have occurred this spring.

Game 2: ESU 9, Bowie State 8 (10 innings)

The Warriors were comfortably in front for a majority of the nightcap. They led 3-0 after three innings, with Wissinger and sophomore Samantha Pickar registering RBI singles in the third.

Wissinger's long ball to lead off the fifth made it 4-1. After Bowie State tacked on a run in the bottom of the frame, Visco delivered an RBI double in the sixth, and senior Bianca Monterosso added extra insurance with a RBI bunt single in the seventh to give the visitors a 6-2 edge.

The Bulldogs, though, had their first five batters reach base in the bottom of the seventh, and Jaelyn Belt forced extras with a one-out sacrifice fly.

With international tiebreaker rules in effect, teams started each extra inning with a baserunner on second. Both took advantage in the eighth, as ESU went up 8-7 on a run-scoring single by Visco and Bowie State retied the game with a two-out triple from Jaqueline Pickering.

Each side stranded runners on third base in the ninth, sending the Warriors to a 10th inning for the first time in four years. Monterosso started the inning on second, and she scored after an error by the first baseman. ESU added a second run on Visco's third RBI of the contest.

Liguori, who entered in place of freshman RHP Erica Molinaro back in the sixth inning, worked around trouble in the bottom half to seal her second win of the afternoon. With the score 9-8 and runners on the corner with one out, she induced a grounder to Pickar, who threw the runner out at home. The trailing runner was then thrown out trying to advance to third to end the game.

Hazewski added a third steal of the day in Game 2, and she is now 19 for 21 in steals this season, a total which moves her ahead of West Chester's Sarah Walasavage for first place in the PSAC rankings despite the Golden Rams having played 11 more games than ESU. Liedberg (11-11), sophomore Kendra Barlotta (11-11) and Visco (10-11) are also already in double figures.

Molinaro, making her third start of the year, left in line for the win after allowing two runs over five-plus innings of work. She gave up seven hits and registered a pair of strikeouts.