DOYLESTOWN (PA) – It was a successful Senior Day for the Delaware Valley College softball team as the Aggies swept a Freedom Conference doubleheader from Wilkes University, 2-1 and 10-1 (called after five innings due to the eight-run mercy rule).

Delaware Valley improved to 16-17 overall and 6-8 with the victories. The team also kept its hopes of a winning season alive as it hosts Muhlenberg College for a non-conference doubleheader and the season finale on Wednesday. Wilkes fell to 10-24 and 2-12.

In-between games, the Aggies recognized their six seniors: four-year players Erin Fox, Keri Hardiman, Sarah Lazar and Kasey Martini as well as three-year players Jess Bensigner who are both slated to graduate a year early. The six combined for six hits, seven runs and five RBIs on the afternoon.

In the opener, it was a sophomore that got things started for Delaware Valley as Jackie Wear led off the bottom of the first with a solo blast over the right field fence for her seventh home run of the season. In the fourth, Lazar went to straightaway center field for her first home run of the year and a 2-0 advantage.

Freshman Alexis Boucher was cruising on the mound until the sixth when Wilkes' Laykin Hughes drew a walk, moved to second on a ground out and scored on an RBI single by Jessalyn Paveletz. Emily McGrath followed with a double to put two in scoring position. Hardiman moved from third base to the mound and she got the final two outs of the inning.  A two-out double in the seventh put the tying run in scoring position again, but Hardiman got Hughes to ground out to shortstop to wrap up her first save of the year.

The second game saw Delaware Valley notch three runs in the opening stanza. Wear led off with a walk and Martini followed with a bunt single. Both runners stole bases and then scored when Bensinger drilled a double off the left-center field fence. Bensinger then scored on a Lady Colonel error.

Delaware Valley put the contest away in the seventh as it scored seven runs and saw a pair of single-season record matched or broken. Fox knocked in the first tally with a double and it upped her RBI total to 37, surpassing the previous mark set by Lorie Kochanski back in 1995. Hardiman drew a bases loaded walk to make it 5-0 and junior Krystle Mazza followed with a three-run double. Wear stepped up to the plate and smacked another home run to tie Bethany Pavlik (2009) for the school's single-season mark.

Wear finished 2-for-2 with two runs scored and two RBIs. Mazza was 1-for-2 with three RBIs while Bensinger went 1-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBIs. Whitney Stacey picked up the win as she went five innings and allowed one run on five hits.

Wilkes got its lone run in the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Jordan Borger. She was 1-for-1 while McGrath went 2-for-3 in the loss.