RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina State scored five runs in the sixth to break open a tight first game, the Wolfpack won game 2 in six innings as they swept the Norfolk State softball team on Tuesday afternoon at the Dail Softball Stadium.
 
NSU trailed just 2-1 after five and a half innings in that first game, but N.C. State put together a five-run sixth for a 7-1 win. The Wolfpack used just nine hits to win the second game, 10-2.
 
Freshman Alexis Robinson pitched well to start game one, but after a rain delay in the bottom of the sixth, N.C. State (19-6) broke the game open.
 
Freshman Loren Hudson had led off the bottom of the second with her first career homer to give the Spartans (6-14) an early lead. The Wolfpack tied it up with an RBI double that same inning, and they went up 2-1 on Carson Shaner's solo homer in the fifth.
 
After the delay, the Wolfpack got a two-run homer from Brigette Nordberg and a two-run single from Logan Morris in the sixth for the final margin.
 
Junior Jazzmaine Hammond had two of NSU's five hits in game 1. Tatyana Forbes went 4-for-4 for the Wolfpack, and Devin Wallace (6-2) pitched all seven innings for the victory.
 
NSU had four hits in the second game, three of those in the fifth inning. The Spartans loaded the bases with three straight singles with one out, but N.C. State's Sam Gress (3-0) got out of the inning without allowing a run.
 
The Spartans scored both of their runs in the second inning. A walk and a hit-by-pitch put two runners on base, and freshman Elizabeth Ritchie singled to center to score both.
 
That made it 3-2 in favor of the Wolfpack after they had started the game with three runs in the first inning. They tallied another run in the second, and three more in the third for a 7-2 advantage. A sac fly in the fourth was followed by a two-run double in the sixth to end the game.
 
NSU will head to Maryland Eastern Shore on Thursday for a non-conference doubleheader.