FAIRMONT, W. Va. – Wheeling Jesuit softball pitchers Mallory Chapman and Ali Smith were on top of their games Sunday. The two Lady Cardinals pitchers allowed 11 hits in 14 innings and recorded two shutouts of the Falcons of Fairmont State, 4-0 and 5-0.
 
Kelsi Thompson belted a top-of-the first inning home run in game one and Wheeling Jesuit (20-18/16-8 Mountain East Conference) never trailed the whole day. The Falcons (23-14/13-13 MEC) gave up three sixth-inning runs in the opener and four fifth-inning runs in the late game without a single score of their own.
 
Victoria Scott and Cassie Holstein each accounted for four of WJU's 21-hit attack. Scott was 4-for-7 with two RBI and Holstein had four singles.
 
Thompson homered and singled. Dana Achille, Chapman and Victoria Vuljanic all doubled. Emily Garvin and Marissa Cangelosi both singled two times.
 
Chapman (15-7) allowed six hits, walked one and fanned five Fairmont State batters in the first game. Smith (5-11) gave up only five hits with one strikeout in her second shutout of the year.
 
Wheeling Jesuit is off until opening the MEC Tournament Championship on May 1 in Salem, Va., against a team and time to be determined.
 
Game 1
 
In the top of the first inning with one out, Thompson blasted a home run to right center field for a lead WJU never relinquished.
 
Leading by the same 1-0 margin in the top of the sixth, Achille doubled and moved to second on an error, before Scott singled her home. Cangelosi made it a three-run frame with a run-scoring single to make it 4-0.


Chapman held Fairmont State off the scoreboard to complete her six-hitter and fourth shutout of the season.
 
Game 2
 
After three scoreless innings, Angie Reddick led off the top of the fourth with a single. Garvin drove Reddick in the first run of the game with a two-out single up the middle.
 
In the fifth inning, Wheeling Jesuit gained some breathing room. The Lady Cardinals plated four more runs off hits from Achille and Scott for a 5-0 advantage.
 
Smith allowed four of Fairmont State's five hits in the last three innings, but she held strong for the shutout.