Sophomore Ashley Forrest went 2 for 3 with her first career home run to lead the Lycoming College softball team to a 4-1 win over regionally-ranked Lebanon Valley College in the first game of Monday afternoon’s doubleheader at the Shangraw Athletic Complex.

Lebanon Valley scored three runs in the seventh in a 3-0 nightcap win.

In the first game, senior Avery Eiswerth, a Williamsport graduate, (6-6) was brilliant against the third-ranked team in Region IV, tossing a six-hitter and working around five walks to strand eight runners in the game. She struck out three in the complete game, allowing only a seventh-inning run with two outs.

Senior catcher Rachel Daub also helped the cause, throwing out two base runners in the contest and junior Claire Alexander, a South Williamsport graduate, caught a fifth-inning liner to start an inning-ending double play.

The Warriors (12-13 overall) got on the board in the third inning with their first run of the game, a solo homer to center field. In the fourth, Daub led off with a single before junior Hailee Sobieski was hit by a pitch. After a sac bunt from Eiswerth, freshman Jocelyn McCracken, a Jersey Shore graduate, delivered a RBI single through the right side and Sobieski scored on an error. In the fifth, Alexander tripled for her 99th career hit before scoring on a fielder’s choice to make it 4-0.

Lebanon Valley got the tying run to the plate in the seventh, but Eiswerth forced a fly out to end the game.

Holly Grube (9-5) pitched four innings for the Flying Dutchmen (21-11 overall) allowing four hits and two earned runs. She struck out one.

In the second game, Lebanon Valley notched four hits in the last inning, spoiling six innings of three-hit shutout pitching from sophomore Kendall McAnelly, a Williamsport graduate (3-6). McAnelly allowed just five hits and two runs in 6 1/3 innings, walking three and striking out one.

Maycee White (4-1) tossed a four-hit shutout, striking out one for the Dutchmen.

McCracken led the Warriors, going 2-for-2. Nicole Kratz led the Dutchmen, going 2-for-4 with two doubles.

The Warriors pick up a halted game with Juniata College on Wednesday at 3 p.m. before finishing the Landmark Conference doubleheader with a full game. The game will resume with the teams tied at 5 in the top of the fifth inning with one out and a Juniata runner on third base.