IMMACULATA, Pa. – Immaculata University's softball team shutout Baptist Bible College in both games of the doubleheader Tuesday afternoon, winning the opener, 9-0, in five innings and capturing game two, 6-0.  
 
Holly Schell led the charge for the Mighty Macs as she combined for 5-for-8 with five RBI in the two games. She was 2-for-4 with two RBI in the first game, and went 3-for-4 with three runs batted in and two runs scored in the nightcap. She homered twice and hit a triple for her trio of hits in the second game.
 
In the opener, Immaculata (17-11, 14-2 CSAC) exploded for six runs in the second on four hits, four walks and one hit batter. The Mighty Macs scored their first run off a bases-loaded hit by pitch. Then with two out and the bases still loaded, Christiana Donofry doubled into center field to bring home Kenzie Brown and Jenny Barnholt. Jessica DeCastro scored the fourth run on a wild pitch, and Danielle Palmisano hit a two-RBI single into left field to plate the Mighty Macs' final two runs in the inning, Donofry and Melissa Ejk.
 
The Mighty Macs pushed one run across the plate in the third as they loaded the bases for Palmisano to draw a walk and score DeCastro, who had gotten on base with a double.
 
Immaculata capped it scoring with two runs in the fourth as Schell hit a two-run single to Barnholt and Kenzie Brown.
 
Meagan Fitzgerald allowed just two hits and struck out four in the circle for Immaculata.
 
Donofry and Brown also finished with two hits in the opener, while Palmisano had a team-leading three RBI.
 
Immaculata scored single runs in each of the first four innings of game two.
 
Schell led off the game for the Mighty Macs with a home run, and Schell then tripled in the second inning to score Allison Zborowski, who had gotten on base with a walk.
 
The Mighty Macs' run in the third came as Ejk scored off a wild pitch. Schell hit her second long ball of the game in the fourth to hand the Mighty Macs a 4-0 lead.
 
After a scoreless fifth inning, Immaculata plated its two final runs of the contest in the sixth with Ejk doubling down the right field line to score Zborowski and DeCastro.
 
Nicole Curcione went all seven innings for the Mighty Macs, striking out seven and surrendering just three hits.
 
Ejk was 2-for-4 with two RBI in game two.
 
Immaculata plays a non-league doubleheader at Widener tomorrow evening beginning at 5 p.m. It will be Widener's “Strike Out Cancer Night.”