The Middlebury softball team swept both ends of a doubleheader on Wednesday at Plattsburgh State. The Panthers scored 10 runs on eight hits during a 10-1 five-inning victory in game one, while cruising in the nightcap for a similar 10-1 win in six innings. Winners of nine-straight games, the Panthers improve to 20-8 for the season, marking the fifth time in the last six seasons the program has reached the 20-win plateau. Middlebury will return to the diamond when it visits Williams in a crucial three-game NESCAC West series. First pitch of the single game on Friday is set for 5:00 p.m., while Saturday's doubleheader is scheduled to start at 12:00 p.m.

In game one, the Panthers jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the top of the second inning. Taylor Gardner blasted a one-out home run to center field, her second of the season. A few batters later, Ali Della Volpe doubled to left-center field, driving in Hye-Jin Kim who was hit by a pitch and Kat Maehr who walked. Jackie Stern made it 4-0, singling up the middle to drive home Della Volpe. After Kati Daczkowski hit into a fielder's choice and Carlyn Vachow walked, the pair came home when Siobhan O'Sullivan hit her first homer of the spring over the left-center field wall.

The Cardinals got on the board in the bottom of the inning with a single tally when Dominique Zommo walked and came around to score on a ground out by Kelsey Gage.

The score remained that way until the top of the fourth when Daczkowski hit her third homer of the season, while O'Sullivan tripled to right, bringing home Vachow, who drew a walk to make it a 9-1 score.

Middlebury completed the scoring in the fifth when Stern singled up the middle, bringing in Gardner who led off the inning with a single.

O'Sullivan went 2-4 with a homer, triple, four RBI and a run scored. Gardner was 2-3 with two runs scored and an RBI. Stern had two hits in four at-bats with a pair of RBI, while Vachow scored twice and induced a pair of walks.

Allison Quigley improved to 9-1 for the spring with the win, allowing just one run on a hit with three strikeouts and three walks over five innings.

Morgan Anderson (8-7) suffered the loss, allowing nine runs on six hits with four walks and three strikeouts over four innings of work. Taylor Smith hurled the final inning, allowing a run on two hits. Amanda Tantillo had the lone hit for the Cardinals, a single in the third.

In the nightcap, the Panthers blasted four home runs and scored in four of the six innings. In the first with two outs, Emma Hamilton hit the initial round-tripper with a two-out homer to left-center field.

Plattsburgh State tallied its lone run of the game in the bottom of the frame when Jennifer Groat walked, moved to second on a fielder's choice, raced to third on a single by Gage and touched home on a walk with the bases loaded by Amy Glashoff.

In the fourth, the Panthers scored twice on a two-run blast to right from Sarah Freyre, scoring O'Sullivan, who singled to second. An inning later, Hamilton singled up the middle, plating Vachow and Daczkowski who had previously walked and singled for a 5-1 lead.

The Panthers blew the game open with five runs on five hits in the sixth, highlighted by Vachow's and Daczkowski's back-to-back homers and an RBI double from Maehr.

Hamilton led the Panther bats going 2-3 with a homer, two runs and three RBI. Daczkowski went 2-4 with two runs scored and an RBI, while O'Sullivan was 2-4 with a run scored. Freyre had a multi-hit game going 2-3 with a homer and two RBI, while Kim collected two hits in two at-bats with a double and a run scored.

In the circle, Irene Margiotta went the first three innings, allowing one run on five hits. Neve Stearns (5-5) earned the win, logging the final three frames with five strikeouts and just one hit.

Katie Pitkin (12-7) was saddled with the loss, going five innings and allowing seven runs, six earned, on nine hits with three punchouts and three walks. Smith came on for the final three outs, giving up three runs on three hits.

Middlebury smacked seven home runs in the wins, including tying a program record with four in game two. With 21 home runs this season, the Panthers established a new single-season record.