WEST LIBERTY, W. Va. – Four Wheeling Jesuit hitters line timely run-scoring hits to aid in a softball split against Concord University in Mountain East Conference action Friday afternoon played at West Liberty University.
 
Angie Reddick, Lorian Tharp and Dana Achille slashed two-out hits and Cassie Holstein added  the other RBI Lady Cardinal single to lead to a 4-2 opening victory. The Lady Mountain Lions (26-12/14-4 MEC) wasted no time in the late contest with seven runs in the first three innings, before they took an 8-0 five-inning win for the split.
 
Leading the WJU (14-16/10-6 MEC) hitters, Reddick went 3-for-5 with an RBI. Victoria Scott and Victoria Vuljanic sliced doubles. Holstein added a pair of singles.
 
In the circle, Mallory Chapman posted her 11^th pitching victory. Chapman (11-5) allowed five hits and two earned runs with four strikeouts in the opener. She also logged two frames in game two without allowing an earned run.
 
Concord's Lauren Lewis powered her 10^th home run of the year to lead a 10-hit team effort in the game two victory.
 
Wheeling Jesuit hosts The University of Virginia's College at Wise for its 'Senior Day' Saturday at noon.
 
Game 1
 
Wheeling Jesuit scored a run in each of the first, third, fourth and fifth innings. In the home first, Kelci Thompson singled through the left side to lead off, was sacrificed to second and raced home on Reddick's single up the middle.
 
Tharp drove home Holstein with a two-out single in the third. Holstein made it 3-0 WJU by lofting a single to shallow center field to bring home pinch-runner Amanda Mangelo. Achille completed the WJU scoring with a run-scoring single to plate Scott in the fifth.
 
In the top of the sixth, Concord scored a pair of two-out unearned runs off a WJU error, but could get no closer than 4-2.
 
Game 2
 
After two outs to begin the game, Lewis drove a deep home run to center field for a 2-0 lead. The Lady Mountain Lions tacked on two more runs to open a 4-0 lead after a half inning.
 
Concord's starting pitcher Allie Reid needed only the four opening runs in the 8-0 win. Reid allowed only a Morgan Stohlman first-inning single and a Reddick fourth-inning hit in five innings and fanned five.