The Misericordia University softball team rallied late in the second game to grab an important sweep over Freedom Conference opponent Wilkes, Saturday at Anderson Field. The Cougars won by scores of 3-2 and 2-1.

Tied 1-1 in the bottom of the seventh of game two, Misericordia managed to score without registering a hit. First, freshman Jen Cory struck out but beat the throw to first after a passed ball.

Cory would go on to score the winning run on a wild pitch with the bases loaded. Courtney Novajosky had reached on an error after sacrificing Cory along to second, and Hollie Sarnak was hit by a pitch.

MU had trailed 1-0 until the sixth inning, when Nicole Wenner singled in Nicole Boccia.

Freshman Caitlin Cromley was the star, allowing one earned run in her first collegiate pitching start and also going 2-for-3 from the plate.

Senior Maureen Pelot pitched well for the Colonels, allowing five hits and one earned run in six innings of work.

Wilkes scored its only run of the game in the fourth, as Amanda Holston singled in Megan Gershey. Gershey went 2-for-3 from the plate while senior Gina Stefanelli was 3-for-4.

MU's Kat Lucenti earned the victory in game one, striking out eight and scattering four hits over seven innings.

Gina Urbon and Sarnak were both 2-for-3, with Sarnak adding an RBI. Boccia was 1-for-2 with a pair of RBIs.

Stefanelli led Wilkes, going 1-for-2 with two RBIs. Freshman Abbey Agresti was 1-for-3 and scored the Colonels' lone run.

The Cougars stranded the bases loaded in the first and second innings. In the bottom of the first, Novajosky, Sarnak and Boccia all reached with just one out but Wilkes' Lindsay Behrenshausen struck out the next two batters to get out of the jam.

MU scored three in the bottom of the second as Sarnak singled in Maria Kidron and Boccia doubled in Novajosky and Jillian Castaldi. Urbon reached to load the bases again, but Cromley's two-out line drive was snatched out of the air by Wilkes second baseman Megan Mowery.

Stefanelli pulled the Colonels within one with a two-RBI double in the top of the third.

Wilkes threatened again in the sixth, with runners in scoring position and two out. However, the next batter hit a line drive right at Lucenti for the third and final out.

In Wilkes' last ups, Novajosky threw out the leadoff runner at third for a crucial out. Mowery singled with two outs but Lucenti struck out the final batter to clinch the victory.

MU improves to 9-6, 3-1. The Cougars continue Freedom Conference play with a doubleheader at King's on Tuesday.