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Delaware 4 Maine 3 Delaware 5 Maine 0 Delaware Softball Sweeps Maine The University of Delaware softball team (22-8, 3-1) swept an important doubleheader today (Monday) against the University of Maine (18-14, 0-4). The Hens won the first game 4-3 and then shut out the Black Bears in game two 5-0. Maine scored in the first on Leigh Ann Hlywak rbi double. Delaware responded with a run of its own in the first when Lauren Mark reached on a error and Mandy Welch scored. Delaware took a 3-1 lead in the fourth inning when Christy Wilkins doubled home Mark and Wilkins scored on a Carolyn Wasilewski single. Maine scored two unearned runs in the top of the fifth to tie the game. Delaware scored the winning run on a sacrifice hit which drove home Mark, who reached on a triple. Kristi O'Connell allowed only a walk in the sixth and pitched a perfect seventh inning to get the victory. O'Connell improved to 10-4 on the season and struck out eight. Delaware opened the scoring in the first inning when Lauren Mark tripled, her eighth of the season which ties the UD single season record, home Laurie Brosnahan. The Hens added three runs in the fourth. The Hens made the score 5-0 when Christy Wilkins singled home Mark. Krysta Pidstawski held the Black Bears to just four hits and allowed only one baserunner to advance to third base as she picked up her 10th victory of the season. Delaware returns to action on Tuesday when the Hens host Rutgers University in a doubleheader which starts at 3:00 p.m. Maine (18-13) 100 020 0 3 5 3 Delaware (21-8) 100 201 x 4 5 2 Pitchers: UD: O'Connell and Wilkins; UM: Burton and Bain 2B: Hylwak, Welch, Wilkins; 3B: Mark; SB: Fraser, McKay, Rautenberg, CS: Mather; SH: Bain, Cariello (2); E: Cassie, Churchill, Hlywak; Brosnahan (2); LOB: UD - 3, UM - 5 WP: O'Connell 10-4 LP: Burton Maine (18-14) 000 000 0 0 4 1 Delaware (22-8) 100 310 x 5 8 1 Pitchers: UD: Pidstawski and Wilkins; UM: Brenner, Sawyer (5) and Bain; 2B: Brosnahan, Mark; 3B: Mark; SH: Bain, Sobel, Cariello; LOB: UD - 6, UM - 8, E: Cassie, Pidstawski; PB: Bain 2; WP: Pidstawski 10-4 LP: Brenner