YORK, PA-The York College softball team ended their four-game losing skid in impressive fashion as they drubbed the Catholic Cardinals in a Capital Athletic Conference twin bill on Saturday in York. York earned a 10-2 win in the opener and then completed the sweep with a 12-2 victory in the second game. York improves to 11-11 overall and 2-2 in the conference while the Cardinals fall to 10-12 overall and 4-2 in the league.
    In game one, the Cardinals reached Spartan starter Megan Lahner (Finksburg, MD/Westminster) for a single run on a Kat Ager RBI single. The Spartans responded with a huge eight-run third inning. The inning featured five Spartan hits and three big Catholic errors.
    Catholic tallied another single run in the fourth but the Spartans closed out the win with single runs in the fifth and sixth innings as they earned an eight run victory.
    Lahner earned the win as she allowed two runs on six hits in six innings. Lahner battled wildness in the game as she walked seven in addition to striking out three. She improves to 8-6 for the season. Elyse Papianni suffered the loss as she allowed nine runs, five earned, on eight hits, six walks and one strikeout. Papianni falls to 6-4 for the season.
    The Spartan offense was led by Heather Bormann (Brick, NJ/Brick Memorial) was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI. Ali Merrifield (Dallastown, PA/Dallastown) added two hits, a run scored, and an RBI. Andrea Tombesi (York, PA/Dallastown) hit her fourth home run of the year, a two-run shot in the big third inning uprising.
    Kelly Lukacs banged out two hits for the Cardinals while Rachel Baker also had two knocks for CUA. Kerry Convery blasted a solo homer for the Cardinals in the fourth inning.
    In the nightcap, the Cardinals jumped on the Spartans early as Lukacs stroked a two-run homer in the top of the first. Much like the first game, the Spartans used an eight run inning, this time the bottom of the second, to break the game wide open. This time, the Spartans played small ball, banging out six hits in the inning.
    York added a single run in the third and three more in the fourth to invoke the eight-run rule, ending the game after the top of the fifth.     
    After the rough first inning, sophomore Nicole Kerfoot (Owings, MD/Northern) settled in and earned the win. Kerfoot allowed two runs, one earned, on two hits with four strikeouts and one walk as she handcuffed the Cardinal offense. Stephanie Clemente suffered the loss as she allowed 12 runs, eight earned, on 11 hits with two strikeouts and one walk in 3.2 innings. She falls to 4-8 for the season.
    Offensively for the Spartans, freshmen Sam Lawrence (Bethlehem, PA/Liberty) and Amanda Atieh (West Milford, NJ/ West Milford) each had two hits. Lawrence scored two runs and drove in another while Atieh's two-run single in the second was a big key to the eight run Spartan inning. Senior Shannon Wood (Harrisburg, PA/Bishop McDevitt) was 1-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored.
    Lukacs had the two-run homer in the first while Kara Walker had the Cardinals' other hit.
    The Spartans return to action on Monday afternoon as they travel to Elizabethtown to face the Blue Jays in a non-conference twin bill in Elizabethtown, PA.