FREDERICK, Md. – With MAC Commonwealth Tournament seeding on the line, the Widener University softball team completed a sweep of Hood College on Saturday afternoon, taking game one 11-2 in six innings, then coming from behind in game two and winning 6-5.

Widener clinched the four seed with the victory and will play the number five team on Friday, May 3 at 10:00 a.m. All conference tournament games will be held at Messiah College.

Highlights

• Carli Benozich had four hits, one of them a homerun, and five RBI on the day. The shortstop also scored two runs.
• Marissa Camac went for three hits, two runs, and an RBI.
• Lindsey Cooper went 3-4 with three RBI in game two, including the game-winning homerun. She scored three runs between both games.
• Ally McDowell scored three runs and stole three bases.
• Kait Jaworski picked up the win in both games, giving her 14 on the year.

How it happened in game one

• Gosselin and McDowell scored in the first inning, giving the Pride an early 2-0 edge.
• Still down two through three and a third innings, Hood tied it in the bottom half of the fourth.
• The Widener bats came alive in the sixth inning, bringing nine hitters to the plate and scoring nine runs.
• The outbreak was capped off by Benozich's three run homer, making it 11-2 Pride.
• Jaworski silenced the Hood offense in the bottom half of the sixth en route to her 13th complete game.  

 
How it happened in game two

• The Pride put two up in the first inning with McDowell and Jamie Gosselin crossing the plate.
• After a scoreless second inning for both teams, Hood knotted it at two in the third.
• The Blazers jumped out to their first lead of the day in the fifth, scoring two runs to make it 4-2.
• With runners on second and third in the top of the sixth, Mikaela Lovell roped a double to left field to even the score once again.
• Hood regained the advantage quickly, tacking on a run in the bottom of the sixth.
• Down to the final out of the ball game, with a runner on first, Lindsey Cooper crushed a two-run homerun to put Widener back on top.
• Again, Jaworski shut down the Blazers final inning, picking up her 14th win.