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FREDERICK, Md. – Senior Amy Cline (Mifflinburg, Pa./Mifflinburg Area) set the Lycoming College softball team’s school record for career runs scored and tied the school record for home runs in a season and the Lycoming College softball team snapped an eight-game skid with a 5-4 extra-inning win in the first game of its Commonwealth Conference doubleheader with Hood on Sunday, April 14. In the second game, Hood staged a late rally to post a 5-3 win.
 
Down 3-2 in the first game, Cline delivered a two-run blast in the top of the sixth inning to left field to help place herself atop the record books in both categories. She surpassed Susan Leuthner (1994-97) with her 86^th career run scored and tied the school’s mark of five home runs in a season shared by Jen Shuler (1997), Amy Long (1997) and Jeanine Evans (1999).
 
After Hood (18-13 overall, 6-5 Commonwealth) scored two first-inning runs, the Warriors (11-15 overall, 2-10 Commonwealth) tied the game in the bottom of the inning, as freshman Ashley Witmer (Lancaster, Pa./Penn Manor) and freshman Kristi Weaver (Milton, Pa./Milton Area) led off with singles. After a fielder’s choice, an error helped bring in Weaver and after a walk loaded the bases, Cline delivered an RBI single up the middle to tie the game.
 
However, in the bottom of the third, Hood scratched a run across thanks to a double to left center by Ashley Fourcade scored Casey Dunn to give the Blazers a lead, setting up Cline’s two-run homer.
 
Hood responded with a run to tie the game in the bottom of the inning, though, as Kali Ball hit a homer, sending the game to extra innings. In the eighth, senior Janelle Poorman (Bellefonte, Pa./Bald Eagle Area) singled up the middle. She reached second thanks to an error and took third on a sac bunt by Witmer, setting up the game-winning single by Weaver to center field.
 
Senior Holly Lansberry (Curwensville, Pa./Curwensville Area) (5-5) shut down the Blazers with a 1-2-3 eighth to complete her eight-inning complete game win. She allowed seven hits, two walks and four runs while striking out six.
 
Keerstie Robinson took the loss for Hood, allowing 15 hits, three walks and two earned runs in eight innings. She struck out one.
 
Cline led the Warriors, going 3-for-4 with three RBI and the home run. Poorman went 2-for-5 with a run, Weaver went 2-for-5 with a run and RBI and both Witmer and sophomore Nikki Marianelli (Old Forge, Pa./Old Forge) added two hits.
 
Ball led the Blazers, going 2-for-4 with a run and three RBI. Amy Hagerdon also went 2-for-4 with a  run scored.
 
In the second game, a three-run sixth inning helped the Blazers post a 5-3 win.
 
The Blazers got on the board in the third inning, as Casey Dunn tripled and scored. Later in the inning, Carly Farr doubled, but Cline tossed her out at the plate on a single by Fourcade to keep it a 1-0 game.
 
The Warriors tied the game in the top of the fourth inning as Witmer reached on an error before sophomore Katie Pugh (Sykesville, Md./Century) delivered a triple to left field. However, the Blazers took the lead with one run in the bottom of the fourth and added three more in the sixth to take a 5-1 lead.
 
The Warriors rallied in the seventh, as Marianelli reached on an error with one out and Lansberry followed with a double to left center. Cline dropped in a single through the left side to score a run and senior Taylor Lesser (Lock Haven, Pa./Central Mountain) lifted a sac fly to center, but a groundout ended the game.
 
Cline led the Warriors, going 2-for-3 with an RBI as she finished the doubleheader with five hits.
 
Dunn, Farr and Fourcade each posted two hits for the Blazers and both Jackie Yurchak and Katie Jenkins posted two RBI.
 
Jennifer Rutherford earned the win for Hood, going seven innings and allowing five hits, two walks and no earned runs. She struck out two.
 
Sophomore Caroline Lapano (Harrisburg, Pa./Trinity) (4-8) took the loss for Lycoming, allowing nine hits and four earned runs in 5 1/3 innings. She struck out four and walked two.
 
The Warriors get back in action on Tuesday, April 16, when they host Keystone in a non-conference doubleheader at 3 p.m. at the Shangraw Athletic Complex.