EMMITSBURG, Md. - Sacred Heart swept a Northeast Conference (NEC) softball doubleheader on Saturday. The Pioneers took the opener 11-6 and then won 5-4 in eight innings.

Nicole Reeder (Glen Burnie, Md./Archbishop Spalding) paced the Mount (21-18, 4-6 NEC) with five hits and five RBIs. Courtney Zingle (Ambler, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) added three hits and two runs scored and Beth Everist (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) posted three hits, three runs scored and an RBI in the two games.

Jen Russell got the win in both games for the Pioneers (17-18, 6-4 NEC), and Courtney Lee posted five hits, five runs scored and five RBIs in the two games.

Mount St. Mary's held the lead in both games, but Sacred Heart came back in both ends of the doubleheader to come away with the sweep.

In the opener, the Mount jumped out to a 6-1 lead before the Pioneers scored the final 10 runs to come away with the victory.

After Sacred Heart posted a run in the first inning, the Mount scored three runs in the first and three runs in the second to take a five-run lead.

Adrian FitzSimon gave the Pioneers a 1-0 edge on an RBI single down the right field line.

Mount St. Mary's answered with three runs in the bottom of the stanza. Zingle walked to start the rally before Lisa Curreri (Clinton, N.J./North Hunterdon) singled and Liz Christiansen (Etters, Pa./Red Land) walked to load the bases. Everist then plated Zingle and Curreri on a single down the right field line for a 2-1 edge. Reeder doubled to bring home Everist to cap the three-run inning.

The Mount repeated its three-run outburst in the second. Zingle was the catalyst for the rally again with a double with one out. Christiansen reached on a fielder's choice and Everist walked to load the bases when Amanda Buckel (Finksburg, Md./North Carroll) coaxed a bases loaded walk to force home Zingle. Reeder increased the advantage to 6-1 on a two-run single.

Sacred Heart came back with a run in the third and the fourth on solo home runs by FitzSimon and Lee, respectively to trim the margin to 6-4.

The Pioneers then took the lead for good on four runs in the fifth. Lee hit a two-run homer, Marissa Montemagni hit a run-scoring double and Taylor Froelich doubled home the fourth run of the stanza for a 7-6 lead. Sacred Heart sealed the win with four runs in the seventh for an 11-6 victory.

In the second game, Mount St. Mary's took the lead with two runs in the first inning. After Curreri singled and came around to score on Everist's double to left, Reeder plated Everist with a single to center for a 2-0 edge.

Lee homered to lead off the second to trim the margin to 2-1. The Pioneers then took the lead in the sixth with two runs on a Montemagni sacrifice fly and Carley Rudloff touched home on a steal.

The Mountaineers answered in the bottom of the inning to tie the game at 3. Everist started the inning with a walk, Reeder reached on an infield single and Erin Leddy (Great Mills, Md./St. Mary's Ryken) walked to the load the bases before Katie Donovan (Seabrook, Md./St. Vincent Palotti) coaxed a bases loaded walk to event the game at 3.

Lee regained the margin for Sacred Heart on a bloop single to right field that just missed the glove of Curreri by Lee.

Mount St. Mary's came right back in the bottom of the inning to tie the game at 4. Christiansen walked and moved to second on a wild pitch. Reeder then plated pinch runner Chloe Mizanty (Carlsbad, Calif./Carlsbad) with a single up the middle to tie the game. The squad then had a chance to win it after Taylor Beebe (Olympia, Wash./Capital) and Leddy walked to load the bases, but the Pioneers got out of the jam with a strikeout.

Sacred Heart took the lead for good in the ninth on a Jasmin Vicente double down the left field line for a 5-4 edge.

The Mount once again had a chance to tie the game in the bottom of the frame. Everist and Reeder walked and Beebe singled to center field to load the bases with one out, but a shallow fly out to left and a ground out to the pitcher ended the game.

Curreri and Zingle both moved into seventh place for runs scored in a single season with 30. Curreri also moved into second place in career games played (176), fifth in career walks (48) and sixth in stolen bases (19) while Reeder jumped into seventh place for career RBIs (60). Everist moved into ninth place for RBIs in a single season at the Mount with 26.

Amanda Sadowl (Horsham, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) jumped into ninth place for appearances in a season with 26 and 10th in innings pitched (135.) and 10th in career games pitched (47). Amanda Hanson (La Plata, Md./St. Mary's Ryken) moved into ninth place for career innings pitched (273.2).

Mount St. Mary's returns to action on Sunday at home against Quinnipiac. Game time is 1 p.m.