Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 NORFOLK, Va. – Drexel rallied with three runs in the sixth inning of game 2 and then held on for a 6-5 win and a doubleheader sweep of the Norfolk State softball team on Tuesday afternoon at the NSU Softball Field.
 
The Dragons also won the first game in six innings, 13-3.
 
Drexel (12-8) faced a 4-3 deficit heading into the sixth inning of the second contest. After playing flawless ball for the first five innings, NSU (8-12) committed three miscues in the top of the sixth, leading directly to three Dragon runs and a 6-4 Drexel lead.
 
The Spartans had a chance in the seventh, eventually scoring a run on Drexel's only error of the game. But Drexel starter Tara Konopka got the last out of the inning to preserve the win.
 
She struck out eight and allowed seven hits with five runs, four earned, in seven innings while improving her record to 5-3.
 
At the start of the game, NSU loaded the bases with no outs in the first inning, and junior Kayla McNair dropped a single into center to make it 1-0. Freshman Stephanie Davenport hit an RBI single into left field to score another run, and senior Megan Dunning followed with a two-run single into shallow left center for a 4-0 lead.
 
The Dragons added three runs in the top of the third on a groundout, sac fly and RBI single to cut the Spartan lead to 4-3. The Spartans left the bases loaded in the third, and neither team scored in two and a half innings before Drexel went ahead for good in the sixth.
 
Dunning batted 2-for-3 with two RBI, while McNair had a pair of hits and junior Devon Bitler scored a pair of runs in the second contest.
 
Freshman Hunter Halford (1-2) allowed six runs, four earned, on seven hits in all seven innings for NSU.
 
In the first contest, senior Whitney Williams put NSU ahead in the bottom of the first when she took the first pitch she saw, at eye level, and sent it over the left fielder bullpen for a two-run homer.
 
Jenelle Ladrido, though, hit a two-run single through a drawn-in infield in the top of the second to tie the game at 2-2. Savanna Johnson added a two-run single later in the inning for a 4-2 Dragon lead.
 
Drexel added six more runs in the fourth to go up by eight. The first scored on a Spartan error, and Kimberly Chan and Ellen Scott each added two-run hits to also highlight the inning.
 
Sophomore Seana Moriarty's RBI single in the fifth extended the game. Drexel, though, hit back-to-back home runs in the sixth, their first homers of the season, as part of a three-run inning to end the game on the eight-run rule.
 
Moriarty hit 2-for-3 and also scored a run, while Williams batted 1-for-3 with two RBI.
 
Katie Haley (3-2) pitched the last three innings of the game for Drexel to earn the win in the first contest, allowing two hits and one unearned run.
 
NSU will travel to Delaware State to play a three game series beginning at 1 p.m. on Friday.