CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – The No. 10 TCNJ softball team swept the doubleheader against DeSales on Wednesday. The Lions won game one, 8-0, then took game two by a final tally of 7-0. TCNJ improved to 3-0 on the young season, while DeSales fell to 2-4.

In game one, Eliza Sweet and Ally Schlee combined to throw a no-hitter. Sweet pitched the first four innings before Schlee finished it in the fifth.

TCNJ got on the scoreboard first in the top of the second inning. Marissa Devincenzo drove in Annalise Suitovsky with an RBI double.

Sweet mowed down the Bulldogs' offense, and the Lions broke the game open with seven runs in the top of the fourth. Elyse Nardozza started the rally with a base hit.

A wild pitch and stolen base got Nardozza to third, and she came around to score on a Suitovsky double. Devincenzo drove in another run with a base hit to make it 3-0 TCNJ.

Katie Winchock drove in the next run with a bases-loaded walk a few batters later. Lauren Conroy and Kaitlin Kocinski each worked a walk to extend the lead to 6-0. Nardozza knocked in the final two runs with a base hit.

Sweet only walked one batter and struck out three on the way to her first victory of the season. Schlee sealed the no-hitter with a clean fifth inning. TCNJ's last no-hitter came against DeSales last year from Alanna Namit.

Namit nearly threw a no-hitter in game two of today's doubleheader. She allowed only one hit which was a single in the bottom of the seventh inning.

Namit helped herself out on the offensive end in the second inning. She got TCNJ on the board with a two-run home run to center field. The homer was the first of her career.

The bat of Lindsay Zengel provided the next four runs for the Lions. She knocked a pair in with an RBI single to left in the fourth inning. Zengel's RBI double in the sixth inning stretched the lead to 6-0. Conroy drove in the final run with an RBI base hit in the seventh inning.

Namit struck out eight batters and allowed only one walk. She also went 3-4 at the plate with two RBIs and three runs scored.

Zengel went 3-3 with the four RBIs in game two. Devincenzo went 4-6 with four RBIs on the afternoon.

TCNJ will return to action on Saturday. The Lions will face Lynchburg in a doubleheader at Salisbury with game one set for noon.