NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Freshman Mikayla Aldenderfer (Williamsport, Pa./Williamsport) threw a two-hit shutout in game one and senior Liz Nace (Perkasie, Pa./Pennridge) allowed an unearned run in game two, to lead the Lycoming College softball team to a second sweep of a pair of games on Tuesday, March 12, at the North Myrtle Beach Sports Complex, beating Norwich, 3-0, and Lancaster Bible, 7-1. 
 
Nace (1-0) struck out a career-high eight batters while allowing four hits in seven innings to pick up her first win of the year. Aldenderfer (3-0) picked up her third win in two days, throwing seven scoreless and striking out three.
 
The Warriors (4-0) have started the season with four straight wins in three of the last four years.
Lycoming doubled their opponents' hit total for the second consecutive day, winning the battle 21-6, while the defense had only one error.
 
Juniors Kayla Kline (Mifflinburg, Pa./Mifflinburg) and Madison Brown (McElhattan, Pa./Central Mountain) continued their hot starts to the season. Kline finished 3-for-6 with a triple, an RBI and run scored and Brown was 3-for-5 with three runs scored. Freshman Kacee Reitz (Milton, Pa./Milton Area) was 4-for-4 with three RBI against Lancaster Bible in her first start of the season.
 
In game one, the Warriors again jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first. Brown and Nace led off the game with back-to-back singles before moving up a base off a successful bunt by sophomore Taylor Gessner (Lewisburg, Pa./Meadowbrooke Christian). They were driven in by a single up the middle by junior Darci Warriner (Wellsboro, Pa./Wellsboro).
 
The Warriors added an insurance run in the bottom of the fifth to extend. Nace led off with a single and advanced to second off another successful bunt from Gessner. Nace stole third and was later driven in by Kline, who singled to left.
 
Aldenderfer retired six of the final seven hitters to earn the victory. Nace notched her first multi-hit game of the season (2-for-3, two runs) and Warriner finished 1-for-2 with two RBI.
 
Adele Cousland allowed seven hits and three runs in six innings pitched for Norwich. Madison Miller and Katie Reid each had a hit.
 
In game two, Lycoming erupted for four runs in the first and never looked back. Brown got things going with a single, Nace reached on an error and both scored as a result of a throwing error from a hard groundball hit to third from Gessner. Kline followed with a triple, Warriner singled to center to score Kline, and Warriner was knocked in by Reitz's first of four hits in the game.
 
The Warriors tacked on a run in both the third and fourth from RBI singles by Reitz and Gessner before going scoreless until the seventh. Reitz notched her third RBI of the day, singling in the top of the seventh to score Warriner.
 
Lancaster Bible scored their lone run in the sixth, but Nace allowed the rally to go no further and she struck out the final two batters of the game.
 
Martina McCauley allowed six runs in three innings pitched in the loss before handing the ball to Tracy Hatton, who allowed one run over the final four innings.
 
The Warriors are back on the field on Thursday, March 14 when they take on SUNY Poly at 9:30 a.m. and Fitchburg State at 1:30 p.m. at the North Myrtle Beach Sports Complex.