EMU's softball women continue to hit. And hit. And hit.

The Royals swept a doubleheader from Shenandoah University Wednesday in Harrisonburg, racking up 28 hits in 11 offensive innings. Eastern Mennonite leads the ODAC with a .368 team batting average, a full 20 points ahead of Guilford .348.

Now 15-7 overall and 2-2 in the ODAC, the women will take their show on the road, playing three twinbills in the span of five days, all away from Gehman Field. They play at Emory & Henry on Saturday, followed by Guilford on Sunday. The trip ends next Wednesday afternoon at Bridgewater.

EMU 10, Shenandoah 5
The Royals took a 2-0 lead after two, but Shenandoah put together four hits to grab a 3-2 lead in the top of the third. EMU went back in front in the bottom of the frame, however, when Angelia Miller (Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby) drew a two-out walk and Aislinn Lucas (Grottoes, Va./Fort Defiance) followed with a homerun, her sixth of the year.

Danyele Smith (Broadway, Va./Broadway) added a solo shot in the fourth before SU put up two in the top of the fifth to tie things up at 5-5.

The tie was short-lived, as Miller led off EMU's next at-bat with a no-doubter over the fence in left center. Mariah Foltz (Broadway, Va./Broadway) then built a cushion with a two-out bases loaded double, bumping the lead to 9-5. Janna Williams (Kenbridge, Va./Kenston Forest), who had taken over in the circle late in the fifth, added one more insurance run with a two-out single in the sixth before getting a 1-2-3 seventh.

The Royals banged out 12 hits in the game, including the three longballs. Every starter had at least one hit, with pitchers Lauren Seale (Madison, Va./Madison County) and Williams each batting 2-for-2. Miller finished 1-2 with two walks, scoring three times.

Seale started but was chased after giving up five runs in 4.2 frames. Williams retired all seven batters she faced to improve to 4-0.

EMU 9, Shenandoah 1 – 5 innings
The Hornets grabbed a 1-0 edge on a two-out single in the first inning of the nightcap. But freshman Sydney Reath (Chambersburg, Pa./Mercersburg Academy) settled down and allowed just one more hit the rest of the way, at one point retiring nine straight SU batters.

Carli Hill (Staunton, Va./Fort Defiance) led off the bottom of the first with an infield single and the women took off. The Royals scored three times without even getting the ball out of the infield. They added two more in the second for a 5-1 lead.

After two scoreless frames, EMU finished things off in walk-off style in the fifth. Jasmine Johnson (Staunton, Va./Robert E. Lee) had a two-run single, followed by an RBI double from Hill. Pinch hitter Maria Sinni (Norristown, Pa./Norristown) ended it with an RBI single to right, invoking the mercy rule at 9-1.

The Royals had more hits than outs in the game, getting 16 hits, including 14 singles. Hill was 3-4 with 2 runs and an RBI from the leadoff spot. Lucas was 3-3.

The women completed the doubleheader without a single batter striking out.

Reath improved to 7-5 with the win.

Coach JD McCurdy said his women adjusted to a number of changes against Shenandoah: