DOYLESTOWN (PA) – Jackie Wear and Jessica Van Galen were the hitting stars of the day for their respective teams as Delaware Valley College and Manhattanville College split a Freedom Conference doubleheader. Manhattanville took the opener, 7-1, before the host Aggies rebounded with a 6-4 triumph in the nightcap.

Wear went a combined 5-for-8 with four doubles, two runs scored and one RBI for Delaware Valley (9-14, 2-8 Freedom). Three of the four, two-baggers came in the game one loss. Wear now has 13 doubles on the year, one shy of the Aggie single-season record.

Van Galen had just two hits in eight at-bats, but they were both home runs. She hit a three-run shot as part of a four-RBI effort in game one and followed with a solo shot in the second contest.

The opener saw Manhattanville (12-13, 7-3) put two runs on the board in the third inning as Kristen Rodopoulos led off with a home run and Van Galen drove in a tally with a ground out. Delaware Valley made it a one-run contest in the fifth as Wear's second double of the game brought home pinch-runner Tori Stachura.

Manhattanville put the game away in the seventh as it notched five runs on five hits and two costly Aggier errors. Katie Pitcher had an RBI single to make it 3-1 and Van Galen followed two batters later with her three-run round-tripper. Later in the inning, Laura Montalto smacked a solo home run for the 7-1 final.

Alyssa Taylor went the distance and picked up the win for the Valiants. She allowed just one run and eight hits. Pitcher, Rodopoulos and Ashley Dell had two hits apiece. Wear was 3-for-4 for the Aggies while freshman Alexis Boucher took the loss.

In the nightcap, Delaware Valley built a 5-0 lead thanks to a single run in the first and four in the fourth inning. Wear led off the bottom of the first with a double, stole third and scored on a throwing error. In the fourth inning, the Aggies had their first two batters retired before rallying for five hits and took advantage of one Valiant error. Kasey Martini had the big blow with a two-run single while Erin Fox and Allison Tomasino added RBI hits.

Manhattanville made things interesting as it scored two runs in both the fifth and sixth innings for a 5-4 ballgame. In the fifth, Lynsey Schill (ground out) and Pitcher (single) knocked in runs while Van Galen and Montalto had solo home runs in the sixth. The Valiants continued to threaten in the sixth as they loaded the bases with one out. However, Boucher, who came in out of the bullpen one batter after Montalto's home run, got a pop out and a strikeout to end the inning.

Delaware Valley got an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth as Fox drilled a double and scored on a two-out error, the sixth miscue by Manhattanville in the contest. Boucher then retired the Valiants in order in the seventh for her second save of the season.

Whitney Stacey went four-plus innings and allowed two runs and five hits, en route to her fourth win of the season. Wear was 2-for-3 with two runs scored while Fox and Jess Bensinger notched two hits apiece.

Rodouopoulos was 3-for-3 while Pitcher and Kim Angiolillo each had two hits for Manhattanville. Pitcher took the loss on the mound.