Castleton, VT - Husson University swept a doubleheader with Castleton State in North Atlantic Conference action Sunday afternoon, winning the opener 7-5 and the nightcap 9-1 in five innings. Husson has now won 12 in a row and improves to 15-11 overall while remaining unbeaten in conference action at 8-0.  Castleton falls to 11-11 overall and 5-3 in conference play. 

Game One: Castleton jumped out to a 3-0 lead as Alicia Zraunig, Lydia McPherson and Hilary Bemis each reached to load the bases with nobody out in the top of the first. A Shannon Jipner rbi-ground out brought home Zraunig, while Mcpherson scored on a passed ball and Sarah Flore drove in Bemis with a single to centerfield.

Husson answered with two runs in the third inning and four in the fifth to take a 6-3 lead they would not relinquish. Megan Bradstreet smacked a solo homerun to right-centerfield to lead off the fifth, and Nicole Sargent added an rbi-double to left-centerfield later in the inning.

Bradstreet was 3-for-4 with three runs scored and one batted in to lead the Eagle offense. Megan Richard earned the complete-game win, allowing five earned on seven hits and four walks while striking out four.

Zraunig had three hits, including a two-run double in the sixth inning that cut the lead to 7-5. Bemis took the loss, allowing seven runs (three earned) on seven hits and six walks while striking out seven.

Game Two: Husson plated three runs in the first, one in the second and five in the fifth to take the mercy-rule win in the night cap. Nicole Sargent helped her own cause with a solo homerun in the first inning, the first of four Eagle homeruns for the game.

In the five-run fifth inning, Megan Richards smacked a two-run homerun to leftfield that also scored Cassie Berry who reached on a single up the middle. After a Sargent homerun, Sarah Risser and Caitlin LeBorgne hit back-to-back homeruns to make it 9-0.

Sargent picked up the win, going five innings and allowing one earned on four hits and three walks while striking out eight. LeBorgne, Sargent and Richards each had two hits for the Eagles

Castleton plated a single run in the fifth on back-to-back doubles from McPherson and Bemi