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Elizabethtown, PA (April 27, 2014) – Junior Carly Bartholomew and sophomore DJ McCauley each reached a milestone in the final games of the season as each collected their 100^th career hit leading the DeSales University softball team to a doubleheader sweep of Elizabethtown College by scores of 12-4 and 12-5 in non-conference action on Sunday afternoon.
 
The Bulldogs (15-16) offense came alive on Sunday scoring 12 runs in each game as DeSales finishes the season with 11, 12, and 12 runs scored in its final three games.  DSU had scored 10+ runs just twice prior to the final three games.
 
In the first game, DSU took a 2-0 lead in the first inning when Bartholomew hit a two-run home run to left field and exploded for eight runs in the third inning to take a 10-1 lead.
 
In the third sophomore Samantha Gibson had a two-run double, juniors Rachel Vogel and Taylor Kelly, who also recorded her 100^th career hit earlier this season on April 12^th at FDU-Florham, each had RBI singles as the Bulldogs took advantage of two walks and three Blue Jay errors in the inning.
 
The lead swelled to 12-1 in the fourth when sophomore DJ McCauley had a two-run double before E-Town scored twice in the fourth and once in the fifth as the game ended with DeSales up eight runs thru five innings.
 
Vogel earned the win in game one allowing seven hits and three earned runs over five frames striking out two.
 
In the second game, DeSales scored in every inning but the seventh to cruise home with the sweep.  In the first inning junior Kayla Adanalian and Gibson each had RBI singles and in the second inning McCauley plated senior Brittany Wilson with DSU's third run.
 
DeSales scored three times in the third on a Blue Jay errors and RBI single from sophomore Michelle Gessner, once more in the fourth on an RBI double from Gibson, three more times in the fifth on RBIs from sophomore Emily Hockman, McCauley, and Gibson, and twice in the sixth on a two-RBI double from Hockman to put the Bulldogs up 12-5.
 
McCauley earned the win entering the game in the third inning and holding Elizabethtown down allowing just five hits and one run, striking out two.
 
Gessner finished 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI, Hockman was 2-for-4 with three RBIs and a run scored, McCauley was 3-for-5 with two RBIs, Bartholomew went 2-for-5 with three runs scored, Gibson had a terrific game going 4-for-5 with three RBIs, and Kelly finished her career with her fourth straight two-hit game going 2-for-3 with three runs scored.