WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. --- A much improved Lycoming College softball finished its regular season with a 5-2 and 6-2 sweep of Albright College on Saturday, April 25. In between games, the Lycoming squad honored its three seniors, Marissa Hastings, Lauren Carey and Chelsie Apker.

The pair of victories improves the Lady Warriors to its best finish in recent memory at 12-22 and a 4-8 mark in the Commonwealth Conference. Albright finishes its season 5-29 and 1-11 in the conference.

In the opener, both teams were held scoreless until Lycoming plated a run in the bottom of the third. Lead-off batter Manda Peck reached on a two-bagger before she scored on a Lauren Carey grounder down the third base line. In the fourth and fifth innings, the Lady Warriors found home four more times. Jessica Nabholz was the lone scorer in the fourth, reaching home after hitting a double and was driven in by a Rebecca Spencer double. Peck and Carey both scored in the both of the fifth. Shauna Starr stepped up and belted a double and Jessica Williams pinch-ran for Starr, eventually scoring on another Spencer single. Albright made a small run in the seventh inning, scoring two runs, but were unable to complete the rally.

The second game saw more offensive production from Lycoming, including a lead-off run from Peck, reaching on a single before getting around the horn on a single from Carey and a double from Nabholz. The Lions jumped out to a 2-1 lead in the top of the second, but Peck tied the score at twos with her second run of the game, fourth of the day. Courtney Black got the fourth inning off with a bang, hitting a single run homer over dead-away center. Starr and Nabholz rounded out the Warrior offensive effort with two runs in the fifth.

Nabholz pitched the first game, earning the win, pitching seven innings and striking out five, while forcing 10 groundouts. Starr got the nod to pitch game two, also pitching a complete game with seven fly-outs and six groundouts as well as five strikeouts.

The Lady Warriors will continue to improve in the off season and look to reach the Commonwealth Conference playoffs in 2010.