Brandywine Claims PSUAC Regular-Season Title; Bussenger Collects 100th Hit

UNIONTOWN, Pa. – The Penn State Brandywine softball team rounded out its Penn State University Athletic Conference schedule by sweeping Penn State Fayette by scores of 11-0 and 17-4 on Sunday afternoon to claim the conference's regular-season title. Lexi Bussenger (Bangor, Pa./Bangor) became the 14^th player in team history to record 100 career hits in game one and set the program's single-season hit record in game two.

Game One: Penn State Brandywine 11, Penn State Fayette 0

Bussenger recorded singles during the fourth and sixth innings to push her career total to 100. She also stole two bases and scored a pair of runs.

Kaylee Mushinski (Allentown, N.J./Allentown) had four hits, including a pair of home runs, and accounted for the Lions' first six runs of the afternoon. She launched a three-run home run during the first inning and added a solo shot in the third. Mushinski's two-run single started a seven-run fourth inning.

Naya Rivera (Mays Landing, N.J./Oakcrest) added a two-run double, while Becky Valente (Royersford, Pa./Spring-Ford) tripled in Rivera and scored the final run via wild pitch.

Rivera also had a two-hit game, while Meghan Ferry (Gloucester City, N.J./Gloucester City) scored twice and swiped a base.

April Lewandowski (Atco, N.J./Hammonton) registered her fifth-straight PSUAC shutout. She blanked Fayette for five innings, striking out five, while allowing just four hits.

Game Two: Penn State Brandywine 17, Penn State Fayette 4

The top five in Brandywine's batting order collected 12 hits in 19 at-bats and all nine starters had a hit as Brandywine won going away, 17-4, in the nightcap.

Bussenger recorded two hits to extend her hitting streak to 37-straight games and set a new Brandywine single-season hits record at 62. She broke Mushinski's mark of 60 set last season.

Karly Rees (Oxford, Pa./Oxford) went 4-for-4 with a home run and four RBI, while Mushinski, Ferry, Payton Landis (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville) and Sarah Moore (New Holland, Pa./Pequea Valley) all had two hits.

The Lions scored during every inning, beginning with a four-run first frame. Ferry lifted a sacrifice fly, while Rees and Jess James (Yardley, Pa./Pennsbury) produced RBI singles and Rees scored via Moore's groundout.

Rees' two-run home run followed Landis' run-scoring double during the second inning, while Mushinski drove in three with a triple one inning later. Moore, Landis, Rees and Bussenger all tallied run-scoring hits during the final two innings.

Maddie DeFazio (Fairless Hills, Pa./Pennsbury) earned her second win in the circle this spring. DeFazio went the distance, recording four strikeouts, while surrendering four runs on seven hits.

Brandywine (29-7, 17-1 PSUAC) will look to win 30 games for the third-straight season during its regular-season finale Tuesday at Delaware Valley beginning at 3:00 PM.