MIDDLETOWN, Pa. -- After dropping the first game of Monday's non-conference doubleheader at Penn State Harrisburg, the Elizabethtown College softball team turned to one of its seniors to help earn the Blue Jays a split with the Nittany Lions. Paige Phillips pitched a complete game with a career-high seven strikeouts and home runs from Kadyn Crisswell and Emily Polimeni helped Etown get the 5-2 win to salvage the split. Crisswell hit her first two career homers on Monday.

Game 1: Penn State Harrisburg 14, Elizabethtown 3 (F/5)
Crisswell drove in her first of five RBIs on the day in the first inning of game one to give Elizabethtown (7-7) an early advantage.

Penn State Harrisburg (5-5) took over the lead with two runs in the bottom half of the first and didn't look back. 

By the fourth inning, the Lions sported a 9-1 lead. Crisswell dug into that with a two-run homer, the first of her career, in the top half of the fourth inning to make it 9-3.

PSH tacked on five runs in the fourth and got the next three outs to finish off game one in five innings. Courtney Fitzsimons and Crisswell each had two hits apiece in the game for Etown.

Game 2: Elizabethtown 5, Penn State Harrisburg 2
Phillips took the circle for game two and immediately had run support from her offense. Emily Polimeni recorded her first career home run in the top of the first, a solo shot, to make it 1-0. Then, with a runner on, Crisswell hit her second dinger of the afternoon to push that lead to 3-0.

The Lions did get two of those back in the second inning, but that's all they would get. Phillips shut down Penn State Harrisburg's offense, not allowing a hit across the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings. Meanwhile, the Victor, N.Y. native fanned seven batters, a new single-game career-high.

Gillian Toomey singled in Phillips in the sixth to add an insurance run. The Blue Jays scored in the seventh as well as Ashley Judd came home safely after a defensive error by the Lions.

PSH had a runner in scoring position with only one out in the bottom of the seventh, but Phillips got two consecutive flyouts to Amelia Lark in left field to end the game. Phillips improved to 5-2 on the season.

Crisswell finished game two 3-for-4 with two RBIs while Phillips also had a multi-hit effort. 

Elizabethtown will be on the road at Ursinus on Thursday, March 24.