NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Senior Morgan Kunes (Lock Haven, Pa./Central Mountain) opened her senior season with a double, two triples, a homer and 7 RBI to lead the Lycoming College softball team to a pair of wins to open its season on Monday, March 13, as it posted an 11-4 win over Sarah Lawrence and a 7-4 win over Wis.-Stout at the North Myrtle Beach Sports Complex.
 
Sophomore Cayla Treaster (Williamsport, Pa./Montoursville Area) came on in relief against Sarah Lawrence, throwing seven innings of five-hit ball to lead the Warriors to a come-from-behind 11-4 win in the season opener.
 
The Warriors (2-0 overall) got on the board in the top of the first, as freshman Madison Brown (McElhatten, Pa./Central Mountain) drilled a triple down the line before scoring on an error. The Gryphons (0-1 overall) responded in the bottom of the inning, scoring four runs off four walks, a hit and an error.
 
Lycoming rallied in the top of the third, as freshman Kayla Kline (Mifflinburg, Pa./Mifflinburg Area) drew a leadoff walk before Kunes was hit by a pitch and senior Kelcie Crabb (Millmont, Pa./Mifflinburg Area) walked to load the bases. After a pair of popouts, sophomore Rachel Duda (Jersey Shore, Pa./Jersey Shore Area) singled up the middle to score two runs. Junior Samantha Fischer (Williamsport, Pa./Williamsport Area) added another single up the middle and junior Ashley Schoenstadt (Gap, Pa./Pequea Valley) followed with a single through the left side to score Duda and give Lycoming a 5-4 lead.
 
The Warriors added five more runs in the fifth, with freshman Darci Warriner (Wellsboro, Pa./Wellsboro Area) leading the inning off with a double before two fly outs. Fischer added a single through the left side and Schoenstadt followed with another to score Warriner. Brown followed with a RBI double before both Kline (one RBI) and Kunes (two RBI) doubled to cap the inning.
 
Lycoming tacked on one more run in the top of the seventh, as sophomore Lexie Kovin (Yardley, Pa./Pennsbury) singled with one out before scoring on a triple down the line by Kunes.
 
After the first inning, Treaster settled in, allowing just four hits and a walk in the rest of the game to earn her second career win. She allowed just two runners to reach third base during that time, and the Warriors gamely picked off a runner that rounded too far off third base off a seventh-inning double, with Crabb gunning down the runner heading back to third thanks to a perfect relay. Traster struck out two in the win.
 
Karissa McAuley (0-1) took the loss for Sarah Lawrence, allowing 10 hits and nine earned runs in five innings. She walked three and struck out three.
 
Schoenstadt went 2-for-3 with a run and two RBI and Kunes went 2-for-3 with three RBI, a double and a triple. Brown went 2-for-4 with two runs, a double and a triple and Fischer also went 2-for-4 with a run and RBI.
 
Baylie Petit led the Gryphons, going 2-for-3 with a run scored.
 
In the second game, junior Rachael Shady (Lock Haven, Pa./Central Mountain) led the Warriors, going 3-for-3 at the plate and tossing six innings in the circle, allowing eight hits and one earned run.
 
The Warriors got on the board in the first inning, with Schoenstadt walking, reaching second on a wild pitch, taking third on a groundout and scoring on an infield single by Kline. They broke open the game in the third inning, as Brown and Kline singled before moving to second and third with a wild pitch. Kunes followed with a triple to right center, where she scored on a single through the right side by Crabb. Crabb came around to score on a sac fly by Duda to make it 5-0.
 
The Blue Devils (1-3 overall) cut the lead to four runs in the bottom of the inning, but Lycoming got two more runs in the fourth when Kline reached on an error and Kunes sent a pitch over the fence in left center. The Blue Devils got two runs in the bottom of the fourth off three hits to make it 7-3.
 
Stout had another chance to score in the fifth, loading the bases with one out, but Warriner caught a ball in shallow right and gunned down a runner trying to score to end the rally. They used two walks and a wild pitch to close within three runs in the seventh, but freshman reliever Hannah Boop (Mifflinburg, Pa./Mifflinburg) struck out the last batter looking to end the threat.
 
Kline finished 2-for-4 with two runs and a RBI and Kunes went 2-for-4 with two runs, a triple, a homer and four RBI for the Warriors.
 
Rachel Thomas and Beth Wood each went 2-for-3 with a run scored to lead the Blue Devils.
 
Shady (1-0) tossed six innings, striking out five and walking one before Boop finished the game by tossing the seventh, walking two and striking out one. McKayla Brunner (0-2) took the loss for Stout, allowing seven runs and 10 hits in four innings. She walked two and struck out one.
 
The Warriors get back on the field when they face Albertus Magnus at 9:30 a.m. and Keystone at 11:30 a.m. at the North Myrtle Beach Sports Complex.