Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 BALTIMORE, Md. – Junior Stephanie Wheatley pitched a solid outing in the second game to aid the Norfolk State softball team to a series sweep of Morgan State on Sunday afternoon at Lois T. Murray Field. NSU won the first game, 7-2, and scored two runs in the top of the seventh to earn the victory in Game 2, 4-2.

NSU's offense was not nearly as productive as Saturday's contest, won by the Spartans 17-7. Wheatley and fellow junior Jamie Schulle received enough help from the Spartans' bats in pitching a pair of complete games. The victories moved NSU to .500 overall at 18-18 and more importantly 11-1 in MEAC play.

The team maintained first place in the MEAC Northern Division and guaranteed itself a spot at the MEAC tournament in May.

As much as the story on Sunday was about the struggles at the plate of several of NSU's big hitters, it was Wheatley and Schulle who grabbed the headlines. Wheatley (1-1), who had only pitched 4.2 innings the entire year coming into Sunday, gave up six hits and two unearned runs in all seven innings in the second game.

Schulle (12-10), meanwhile, gave up five hits and two earned runs in seven innings of the first game while working around the five walks she issued to Morgan State (2-30, 0-9 MEAC).

Sophomore Alina Moriarty drove in three runs in the first game, while freshman Whitney Williams hit 2-for-3 with two RBI. Junior Nikki Jones hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning of the second game to break a 2-2 tie.

Sophomore Haley Ward, who saw her 17-game hit streak come to an end after a 0-for-5 day, lofted a sacrifice fly to left field in the top of the first in the first game to give the Spartans an early lead. Williams doubled in a run in the second, and Moriarty hit an RBI fielder's choice later in the inning for a 3-0 lead.

In the fourth, freshman Heather Dunning and junior Morgan Boyd reached base on infield singles with two outs before Moriarty doubled both home. The Bears made it 5-2 in the bottom of the fourth on Shareday Christina's two-run triple, but Williams and Dunning hit RBI singles later in the game for the final scoring.

Nicole Holguin scattered eight hits in seven innings for Morgan State in the second game and settled down after a rough first inning. Boyd and Moriarty singled to lead off the game, and Boyd scored on a passed ball. Junior Kathy Cortez hit an RBI double with two outs to plate Moriarty and give NSU a 2-0 advantage.

Christina brought home two runs with a two-out single in the bottom of the second to tie it up at 2-2, and then over the next four scoreless innings the teams combined to leave just two runners on base. Finally in the seventh, NSU went ahead for good.

Junior Melina Valles opened up the inning with a double to left field and Jones lined her first homer of the season to center field. Wheatley then did the rest, finishing the complete game while working around a one-out single in the bottom of the seventh.

Dunning went 3-for-4 in the first game, while Boyd had a pair of hits in both contests and scored three runs. Christina drove in all four runs on the afternoon for the Bears.

NSU will play at doubleheader at North Carolina Central on Tuesday beginning at 4 p.m.