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PRINCETON, N.J. - Jamie Dellinger led the La Salle softball team with a 2-for-5 outing at the plate, but Princeton took both ends of a nonconference twinbill on Thursday afternoon at Class of 1895 Field. Princeton won game one 8-0 in five innings before taking the nightcap 7-1.

The Explorers (6-29) struggled at the plate in the first game, being limited to just one hit and two total baserunners. Liz Reed reached on a hit-by-pitch in the first inning and Dellinger got one of her two hits in the second inning.

Cara Worden led Princeton (11-20) in the first game, going 2-for-3 with two RBI. Kelsey VandeBergh went 1-for-3 with that hit being a two-run home run in a six-run second inning for the Tigers.

Lizzie Pierce hit a two-run blast in the third to plate the seventh and eighth runs.

Alyssa Bitsimis pitched the first game, pitching a complete game and giving up eight runs on six hits. Liza Kuhn earned the win for the Tigers, also going the distance and limiting the Explorers to one hit.

The Tiger bats stayed alive in the nightcap with 12 total hits. VandeBergh went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and three RBI, while Alex Peyton went 2-for-4 with two home runs, three runs scored and three RBI.

Five different Explorers got hits in the second game. Alicia Aughton led off the second inning with a single to center and advanced on a Kristin Travers sac bunt. Kati Cooper followed up with a single up the middle to put Aughton at third with one out, but Princeton forced two more outs to end the inning.

Princeton took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first and tacked on two more in the third, one in the fifth and three in the sixth.

The Explorers got one back in the top of the seventh on a Tristan Musho sacrifice fly. Travers led off with a single to third and moved to second on a Dellinger single to third. Both advanced to second and third on a wild pitch before Travers came home on Musho's sac fly to right field.

Travers pitched the entire second game, giving up seven runs (six earned) on 12 hits and striking out two. Meredith Brown went the distance for Princeton, giving up one run on five hits and striking out seven.

The Explorers return home on Sunday for an Atlantic 10 doubleheader against Saint Louis starting at noon.