HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Haverford College softball team swept aside Immaculata during its home opener on the Class of '95 Field Tuesday afternoon. Although the end result was the same, the way the Fords (7-7) got there was in complete different fashion.

Haverford allowed just three hits during a 2-0 win in the opener. The offense then came alive in the second game with an 11-7 victory to cap the sweep. Emily Winesett was the winning pitcher in both contests as she improved to 5-4 on the season. Sara Tauriello pitched three innings of relief in game one to record her first save of the season.

In that opening game, Winesett had set down eight straight batters after stranding a pair of runners in the first inning. Even when Immaculata got two more runners on in the fourth, a line drive double play turned by the Haverford defense kept the game scoreless.

Seemingly using the momentum of that double play in the bottom half of the fourth, Haverford pounced for the only two runs of the contest. Kaitlyn Guild started the inning with a double into center field. Haverford later had two runners on following an Immaculata error before Kristin Tatum was hit by pitch to load the bases. A strikeout put two away in the frame; however, Julia Blake delivered the clutch two-out single back through the middle in the only offense Haverford needed.

With the 2-0 lead, Tauriello came on in relief to shut down the Mighty Macs during her three innings of work. She allowed just one hit in recording the save.

Game two started out with Haverford wasting little time before getting on the scoreboard. The Fords left the bases loaded in the top of the first, but came back with three runs in the second inning. After the first two batters of the inning were retired, Alex Craig and Rachel Wolfson each singled to keep the inning alive. Miwa Wenzel drove home the first two runs with a double down the left field line. She then came around to score on an RBI single into center field from Guild.

Haverford added four more runs in the bottom of the fourth to go up 7-0. An error on the infield and bunt single from Wenzel put runners on first and third. Back-to-back RBI singles from Guild and Kendall Chambers brought home the first two runs of the inning. Haverford also got an RBI groundout from Tatum and two-out RBI double from Jessica Koshinski to close the inning's scoring.

The Fords only surrendered runs to the Mighty Macs in one inning during Tuesday's doubleheader. However, Immaculata made the most of its chance with seven runs in the top of the fifth to tie the game. The Mighty Macs scored those seven runs on four hits and were helped by three Haverford errors.

Nevertheless, Haverford came right back with four runs to reclaim the lead in the bottom half of that inning. Back-to-back Immaculata errors started the inning, while a perfectly executed double steal gave Haverford the lead for good. Wenzel and Chambers each added an RBI in the inning before Tatum's fourth home run of the season marked Haverford's final run of the afternoon.

With the lead back, Winesett retired six of the game's final seven hitters with a two out single in the sixth being the lone exception. She finished the doubleheader with seven innings pitched between the two games and did not give up an earned run during that time. Offensively, Haverford's second through fifth hitters each finished with at least two runs driven in during game two.

Softball will now turn its attention to the Centennial Conference opener this Saturday against defending champion McDaniel. The Fords and Green Terror will get their two games underway at 1 p.m.