FAIRMONT, W.Va. – Coach Elle Fracker's Davis & Elkins College softball team made Duvall-Rosier Field on the campus of Fairmont State University their home away from home this weekend.  Today, D&E swept the doubleheader with the Falcons.  The Senators took game one 5-4 and followed that up with an 8-2 win in game two.

Game One
Trinity Cossette opened the scoring in game one.  In the bottom of the second Cossette smacked a triple to right center to bring in Rachel Jones and Maddie Lavelle.  Sharon Morales would bring Cossette home on a single to left field.  The Senators led 3-0 after two complete innings.  Fairmont would get a run in the top of the third, but D&E would add an unearned run in the bottom half of the inning to make the score 4-1 heading into the fourth inning.  The Falcons would answer in the top of the fifth, scoring 3 runs, (2 earned).  Sharon Morales came to the plate in the bottom of the fifth.  Morales came up big for the Senators, hitting a solo home run over the center field fence.  Haley Grindstaff would hold FSU scoreless the final three innings.

Morales finished the game going 2-3 at the plate with two hits and two runs batted in.  Jones was also 2-3 in the game.  Cossette was 1-3 with two RBI.  Linzey Allard, Honesty Holt, and Lavelle each had one hit.  Grindstaff earned the win, pitch a complete game giving up 4 runs, 3 earned and striking out five.
 
Game Two
The Senators plated five runs the first two innings Allard started the scoring in game two, hitting a single to bring in Kailynn Parks.  Allard would score on a Falcon error to make it 2-0 after an inning.  FSU would plate a run in the top half of the second.  D&E would score three in the bottom half of the inning, to make 5-1 after two complete innings.  Fairmont scored a run in the top of the third, that would be end of the scoring for the Falcons.  Davis & Elkins would add three more runs.

D&E took advantage of five Falcon errors.  Jules Gutierrez had two hits.  Mia Mendoza, Allard, Holt, and Lavelle each had a hit.  Ava Willis went the distance to earn the win.  Willis gave up two earned runs on six hits.
 
Davis & Elkins improves to 4-15 overall and 2-2 in the Mountain East Conference.

Fairmont State drops to 4-10 and 0-4 in the MEC.

The Senators return to the field Tuesday, traveling to Greensburg, Pennsylvania for a doubleheader with Seton Hill.