EMU's softball women closed the regular season on the road Sunday, splitting a non-conference doubleheader at McDaniel College in Westminster, Md.

Despite the non-conference split, the Royals (28-12 / 13-5 ODAC) have earned the No. 2 seed in this weekend's ODAC Tournament in Salem, Va. Eastern Mennonite will take on No. 7 seed Randolph College in their first game, playing at 2:00pm on Friday.

They will play a second game on Friday in the three-day double elimination tourney, which culminates in the Championship game(s) on Sunday. All games will be played at the James I. Moyer Sports Complex.

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EMU 13, McDaniel 4 – 6 innings
The Royals started out quickly in the opener, batting eight women in the first inning to score four runs. Lauren Seale (Madison, Va./Madison County) and Carli Hill (Staunton, Va./Fort Defiance) opened the second with back-to-back homeruns to give EMU a 6-0 lead before the home team even sent their fourth batter to the plate.

The Green Terror got a pair of solo shots for their first runs, but the women got them right back in the fifth, highlighted by Sydney Reath's (Chambersburg, Pa./Mercersburg Academy) leadoff homer.

EMU landed the knockout punch in the sixth, despite opening the inning with a pair of groundouts. Danyele Smith (Broadway, Va./Broadway) drew a two-out walk and her teammates followed in. Angelia Miller (Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby) had a two-run double and Aislinn Lucas (Grottoes, Va./Fort Defiance) fired a two-run homer to right center, as the Royals scored five more times to balloon out a 13-2 cushion.

McDaniel scored two on their third longball of the game, but it wasn't enough to call off the mercy rule.

The women had six doubles and four homeruns in their 15-hit attack. Reath finished 3-4 with three runs and two RBIs, while Seale was 3-4 with three RBIs and a run scored. Lucas charted a 2-3 day with a walk, driving in three runs and scoring twice. Hill, Smith and Miller each accounted for three runs.

Seale also went the distance in the circle to improve to 9-4.

McDaniel 9, EMU 5
Both offenses came alive in the nightcap, as the teams combined for 29 hits.

McDaniel took the first lead with two scores in the first, but the Royals tied it at 2-2 with unearned tallies in the second and third.

The Green Terror re-took the lead with a two-run homer in the bottom of the third, but EMU kept coming. They scored once in the fourth before taking the lead on the legs of a pair of RBI singles in the fifth.  The Royals had the bases loaded with just one out, but a fielder's choice and strikeout left the bases packed with EMU holding a slim 5-4 lead.

McDaniel quickly returned fire, needing just two batters to tie the game in the bottom of the frame. The home team had the bases loaded with nobody out and the Royals nearly got out of the jam after getting back-to-back outs at home. But the next two batters smacked two-run hits to the outfield, bumping the Green Terror to a 9-5 lead.

The women got one base runner in each of the sixth and seventh innings, but couldn't get either past second base.

Tiffani Shaheen (Fluvanna, Va./Fluvanna County) was a perfect 3-for-3 from the plate with a sacrifice, scoring once. Lucas also had three hits. Miller scored twice and Payton Hill (Staunton, Va./Fort Defiance) drove in a pair. Smith had one run and one RBI.

Reath started in the circle and gave up seven runs on 11 hits in 2.2 innings of work. Janna Williams (Kenbridge, Va./Kenston Forest) gave up two runs in 2.0 frames, getting her first loss of the year to slip to 7-1. Seale threw for the final four outs, getting two strikeouts.

Historic Season
Even before heading into the postseason, Eastern Mennonite's women have been playing a historic season of softball, breaking numerous program records.

The Royals have already broken the team season mark with 407 hits (was 386) and will break the at-bats record (record 1,142 / currently 1,120). They have a shot to break records for runs (287 / 272), doubles (75 / 71), RBIs (266 / 245) and fielding percentage (.969 / .965).

Individually, Carli Hill has already broken the program record with 61 hits this season, taking down Miranda White's 10-year-old mark of 56. Other records most likely in danger include Hayley Shepard's 143 at-bats (Shaheen - 135, Hill - 133), Summer Mantz and Lisa Lee's 42 runs (Smith - 40), Rinn Siegrist's 24 walks (Miller - 22, Smith - 21), and Jessica Sullivan's 314 putouts (Miller - 296).

The 28 wins is the second-most in the program's 37-year history, coming in behind a 30-13 season in 2008. The 13 ODAC wins is tied for second-most, behind a 14-win campaign in 2011.