ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- The Elizabethtown College softball team hosted defending champion Scranton in a doubleheader at The Nest on Saturday in the return to play for both teams. The Royals took game one in five innings, 12-1, and pulled away from the Blue Jays in game two for a 19-8 win to get the sweep. Lisa Scanlon went 5-for-6 for Etown on Saturday.

Game 1: Scranton 12, Elizabethtown 1 (F/5)

Scranton (2-0) scored a pair of runs in the top of the first to grab a quick 2-0 lead. Jennifer Sweeney, the Landmark Tournament MVP during the Royals' run to the title in 2019, smacked a grand slam in the second to open up the game, which made it 6-0.

Paige Phillips led off the bottom half of the second with a double to center and scored one batter later when Lindsey Fasolo knocked in her junior teammate with a single. Scanlon recorded her first career hit two batters later with a single to right.

Sweeney had the Jays' number, limiting Elizabethtown (0-2) to just five hits. Scanlon went 2-for-2 in game one.

The Royals added three runs in the third, one in the fourth, and a pair in the fifth. Sweeney closed out Etown in the fifth, recording the final out on a grounder back to the Scranton hurler.

Game 2: Scranton 19, Elizabethtown 8

The Royals exploded offensively out of the gate, jumping ahead by eight runs in the top half of the first. Elizabethtown responded with four of their own. After stealing second with one out in the inning, Grace Hussey touched home safely on Amelia Lark's single to center field. Fasolo singled to right center to load the bases for Phillips, who also sent a base knock into the outfield to drive in Ashley Mistichelli.

Scanlon drove in the first run of her career with an RBI single up the middle as Lark scored. Emily Polimeni did the same, registering her first career RBI on a sac fly to left that cut the deficit in half to 8-4 by the end of the first.

Starting pitcher Tori Caputo kept Scranton scoreless the next two frames to allow her offense to get her closer. Scanlon knocked in her second run of the game in the bottom of the third with an RBI base hit through the right side. The Blue Jays had four straight singles to start the inning, beginning with Lark and ending with Scanlon's run-scoring hit. Brinley Schmidt brought home two more runners with two outs as her single up the middle allowed Phillips and Fasolo to score.

It would be as close as Etown would get. The Royals countered with a run in the fourth, before tacking on six more in the sixth and four in the seventh. Lark added an RBI base hit in the bottom of the sixth after Mistichelli doubled down the left field line.

Olivia Prosser, a defensive sub for the Jays in the seventh, singled through the right side in the bottom half of the inning for her first career hit.

The Blue Jays and Royals will turn around and face one another tomorrow for another doubleheader, this time in Scranton. Game times are 1 and 3 p.m.