LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. – The Philadelphia University softball team scored 52 times and recorded 48 hits as it pulled off a sweep of Lincoln (Pa.) University in a non-conference doubleheader Monday afternoon. The Rams won game one 26-1 and then took the nightcap 26-0.

Monday marked the first time that Philadelphia (14-14) scored 20 runs in a game since putting up 20 runs in a 20-1 victory over Goldey-Beacom on April 16, 2008. The team came up one run short of tying the school record of 27 runs that came in a 27-2 victory over Chestnut Hill in 1989.

GAME ONE
Seven Rams had a multi-hit game, led by shortstop Stephanie Martin's (Hanover, Md./Seton Keough) five hits in six at-bats. Shortstop Mariah Hans (Barrington, N.J./Haddon Heights) had three hits, including a three-run home run in the third, and a team-high five RBI.

Catcher Gabrielle Brown (Shillington, Pa./Governor Mifflin), center fielder Erin Maher (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn), and Martin knocked in four runs each. Left fielder Emma Haley (Jensen Beach, Fla./Jensen Beach) had a 4-for-5 game, scored five times, and knocked in three.

Lincoln (0-18) took the early 1-0 lead on a first-inning, one-out inning off the bat of Toni Smith. The single scored Emily Woodruff, who singled to start the inning. Smith and Woodruff finished the game with two hits each.

Philadelphia took the lead a half inning later when Martin came through with a bases-loaded triple to put the Rams in front 3-1. The Rams tacked on two more runs with an error and a Maher ground out.

The Rams sent 13 runners to the plate during an eight-run third inning that extended the lead to 13-1. After two more runs scored in the fourth, Philadelphia scored 11 times, including a grand slam by Brown, and had 17 at-bats during the fifth inning. Maher and Hans added two RBI each in the inning.

Nicole Troisi (Norristown, Pa./Pope John Paul II) tossed a complete-game four-hitter and struck out seven in the win. Danielle Owes took the loss.

GAME TWO
Renee Kakareka (Schaumburg, Ill./Schaumburg) was the star of game two, going 4-for-4 with eight RBI, struck out 12 hitters, and came within one out of a perfect game.

Philadelphia opened the game by sending 18 hitters to the plate and scoring 13 runs in the top of the first inning. Maher and Brown had four RBI each.

After driving in one run in the first, Kakareka drove in two runs in a three-run third, one more during a five-run fourth, and hit a grand slam in a five-run fifth.

All ten Ram players had at least one hit. Brown finished with four, while right fielder Kasia Smith (Waddell, Ariz./Estrella Foothills), left fielder Katy Sullivan (Holtsville, N.Y./Sachem East), second baseman Megan Letos (Bristow, Va./Stonewall Jackson) and Martin added three.

The Lions' Amber Cale broke up Kakareka's perfect game bid with two outs in the fifth, beating out an infield single.

Philadelphia hosts Caldwell in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader on Wednesday, April 8 at 2:30 p.m.