SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. Va. – Mallory Chapman and Angie Reddick powered Wheeling Jesuit to a Mountain East Conference softball split at Shepherd University on Saturday. The home Rams edged out a 5-4 opener, before the Lady Cardinal teammates belted four extra base hits, drove in six runs and accounted for the pitching win for the 14-10 second-game victory.
 
Shepherd (18-19/11-13 MEC) took advantage of Wheeling Jesuit (18-18/14-8 MEC) miscues for three unearned runs and a 5-4 victory. Trailing 9-1, WJU scored twice in the third, before it exploded for seven runs, including a run-scoring Reddick double and two-run Chapman double to pull ahead, 10-9. Chapman added a two-run sixth-inning homer and picked up the win in the circle to post the twinbill split.
 
In 11.1 innings on the day, Chapman (14-7) allowed 10 hits, two earned runs and struck out six Rams' hitters. She added the second-game two-run double and home run.
 
Reddick posted a 5-for-7 afternoon with four runs scored, two doubles and a pair of RBI. The senior had two hits in the first game, before she lined three in the late contest.
 
Kelsi Thompson contributed four singles and Lorian Tharp went 2-for-4 with a double and three RBI. Victoria Vuljanic had three hits and Dana Achille scored four times and doubled.
 
Wheeling Jesuit completes its regular season on Sunday with two games at Fairmont State. First pitch is set for 1 p.m.
 
Game 1
 
Shepherd wasted no time getting runs on the scoreboard. The home club pushed across three runs, two unearned, for a 3-0 lead.
 
WJU chipped away at its deficit. Victoria Scott doubled home Reddick, who doubled, in the top of the second. The Lady Cardinals tied the game, 3-3, when Reddick drove in one runner and Tharp doubled in the tying score in the visiting third frame.
 
In the top of the fifth inning, Scott tied the game for Wheeling Jesuit a second time, 4-4, with a single up the middle. Shepherd edged ahead, 5-4, on a sac fly in the bottom of the same inning.
 
Reddick walked and was stranded at third base as the tying run in the seventh to end the game.
 
Game 2
 
After a tough opening two innings, Wheeling Jesuit came alive in a big way to take the late game.
 
Tharp lined a RBI single in the top of the first, but the Lady Cardinals' 1-0 lead was short lived.
 
Shepherd put four runners to touch home plate in the first and five more in the second to open a large, 9-1, advantage.
 
WJU cut into the eight-run difference with a Tharp sac fly and Scott RBI ground out for a 9-3 game in the third inning. The visiting bats were not done.
 
In the top of the fourth, Emily Garvin's single and a Reddick double both drove in a run as part of Wheeling Jesuit's seven-run game-changing at bat. Chapman laced a two-run double to right center field to complete the scores and put her team ahead, 10-9.
 
Chapman added a two-run homer, her fourth of the year, in the sixth and Reddick finished the WJU scoring with a seventh-inning RBI double.
 
Chapman logged the final 5.1 innings for the relief win. She gave up only three hits and struck out two in the effort.