GAME DETAILS

Game 1 – Saint Louis 3, Saint Joseph's 1

Game 2 – Saint Louis 3, Saint Joseph's 2 (8 innings)

Saturday, April 23, 2016

St. Louis, Mo. – Billiken Sports Center

THE BASICS

--Emma Buckles delivered an RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning to give Saint Louis a 3-2 win over Saint Joseph's and a sweep of an Atlantic 10 Conference doubleheader Saturday afternoon at the Billiken Sports Center.

--Alex Nickel hit her eighth home run of the season in the opener, won by the Billikens 3-1.

--Saint Louis upped its records to 19-23 overall and 9-7 in the A-10. Saint Joseph's fell to 16-21-1, 4-9-1.

GAME 1 – HOW IT HAPPENED

--Saint Louis took a 1-0 lead in the fourth when Brittany Durant swiped home, part of a double steal.

--The Billikens made it 3-0 in the fifth on Nickel's two-out, two-run blast to right field.

--Saint Joseph's scored an unearned run in the seventh and had the tying runs aboard, but Brianna Lore worked out of the jam to preserve her 10th win of the season.

GAME 1 – BILLIKEN NOTABLES

--Lore allowed just four hits, struck out two and did not walk a batter. She also collected two hits.

--Mackenzie Peter, Elizabeth Everingham and Allie Macfarlane had two hits apiece. One of Peter's hits was a double.

--Buckles also doubled.

GAME 2 – HOW IT HAPPENED

--Saint Joseph's tallied a single run in each of the first two frames, but Laney Kneib stranded two Hawks' runners in the first inning and three more in the second to keep Saint Louis close.

--Macfarlane slammed her sixth homer of the season, a two-run shot down the right-field line, in the bottom of the second to knot the score at 2-2.

--That's how it stayed until the eighth when Buckles, following a two-out error, came through with the game-winning hit.

GAME 2 – BILLIKEN NOTABLES

--Kneib allowed eight hits, but just three came in the final six innings. She fanned three and walked three en route to her fifth victory of the season.

--Macfarlane added a single to her home run for another two-hit outing.

--Alyssa Tarquinio doubled and singled.

--Peter and Everingham registered a double apiece.

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