DOVER, Del. - Courtney Zingle (Ambler, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) and Beth Everist (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) each knocked in two runs in a six-run second inning to lift Mount St. Mary's past North Carolina Central 8-4 in the Demarini Capital Classic on Saturday. Delaware State defeated the Mount 4-3 in eight innings in the nightcap.

The senior duo helped the Mountaineers (7-8) erase a 1-0 deficit with a six-run second inning against the Eagles. Zingle brought home a pair of runs on a single up the middle before Everist doubled down the left field line to plate more two more runs in the stanza. Zingle posted four hits in the two games.

Nicole Reeder (Glen Burnie, Md./Archbishop Spalding) went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and a run scored in the game against the Hornets while Alexa Tuck (Chester, Va./Thomas Dale) had two hits and an RBI and Lindsey Ruhle (Wanaque, N.J./Lakeland Regional) posted her first collegiate hit and two runs scored in the first game.

In the opener, the Mount posted six runs in the second inning to take the lead for good and go on for its third win against North Carolina Central.

Reeder started the rally when she reached on an error before Ruhle, Tuck and Chloe Mizianty (Carlsbad, Calif./Carlsbad) each singled to plate Reeder with the tying run. Taylor Beebe (Olympia, Wash./Capital) was hit with the pitch to force Tuck home with the go-ahead run before Zingle singled up the middle to bring around Mizianty and Beebe. Everist then capped the six-run stanza with an opposite field two-run double.

The Eagles rallied for three runs in the fifth to trim the margin to 6-4. Andrea Searls hit a sacrifice fly and Cember Carmichael hit a two-run double to account for the three runs.

Mount St. Mary's sealed the victory with two runs in the sixth. Reeder and Ruhle started the stanza with walks. After Tuck brought home Reeder with an RBI single through the left side, Ruhle scored on an error.

Carmichael got the scoring started in the first inning with a run-scoring single to left center for a 1-0 lead, but the Mountaineers scored the next six runs and never looked back.

Amanda Sadowl (Horsham, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) picked up the win for Mount St. Mary's and struck out six batters.

In the second game, the two teams battled to a 3-all standstill before Delaware State won the game in the bottom of the eighth aided by the international-tiebreaker rule.

Casey Beighley was placed on second to start the bottom of the eighth, moved to third on Sherelle Sheppard's sacrifice bunt before Stephanie Martello plated Beighley with an RBI single through the right side for the decisive run.

In the top of the eighth, Tuck was placed on second, but a strikeout, batter's interference and a strikeout gave the Hornets the chance to score in the bottom of the inning.

Mount St. Mary's scored the first three runs of the game after posting a run in the fourth and two runs in the fifth.

Jenna Zimmerman (Walkersville, Md./Walkersville) singled through the left side and came around to touch home on Reeder's double to right field in the fourth for a 1-0 edge. Reeder then hit a two-run homer in the fifth for her first round tripper of the year and fifth of her career to extend the lead to three runs in the fifth.

Delaware State answered with a run in the fifth and two in the sixth to tie the game and send it to extra innings. Andrea Waters singled home the run in the fifth and Ashley Davis hit a two-run single in the sixth.

Nicole Pagano (Berlin, N.J./St. Joseph) struck out a career-high 11 batters in the loss for the Mountaineers.

Everist moved into sixth place in program history for career RBIs (70) while Zingle jumped into seventh place in RBIs (67) and fourth place in at-bats (466).Reeder moved into eighth place for doubles (22) and eighth for at-bats (445). Beebe moved into seventh place for bases on balls (44) while Sadowl moved into ninth place for strikeouts (120).

Mount St. Mary's returns to action on Sunday in the final day of the Demarini Capital Classic. The Mount will face UMES at 9 a.m. and then will compete in either play in the consolation game at 1 p.m. or the championship game at 3 p.m.