The Emory University softball team kept up its winning ways with a pair of Saturday victories on the opening day of the 3N2 Classic.  The Eagles ran their season record to 10-0 after defeating Case Western Reserve, 7-3, and Centre College, 3-0.

Freshman pitcher Brittany File tossed a complete-game shutout against Centre, allowing just four hits and striking out 16, the second-highest individual game total in school history.   The Eagles snapped a scoreless tie by pushing home a pair of runs in the bottom of the fourth, started when senior Megan Light stroked a one-out double that scored senior Ally Kersthold, who opened the inning with a single and then moved to second following a sacrifice bunt by Micah Scharff.   Light later scored when senior Claire Bailey came through with a two-out single.   Emory added another run in its half of the sixth when Light walked with two out and then scored when sophomore Hannah Sendel doubled to center. 

Light fueled the win in the first game with a 3-for-3 effort at the plate while driving in three runs.  Sendel hit safely twice and recorded a pair of RBIs while sophomore Alyssa Pollard collected a pair of safeties.  Emory jumped out to a 2-0 lead after the first frame, thanks to a double by Light that scored Kersthold and Scharff.   The Eagles extended their lead to 3-0 in the third when Sendel launched a double that scored Light.  After each team scored a run in the fourth, the Spartans knotted the score with a three-run sixth that was highlighted by a two-run single by Amy Taylor.  Bailey slapped a one-out single through the right side that allowed Kersthold to cross the plate before a another double by Sendel, her third two-bagger of the day, scored Light.  Junior Moira Sullivan drove in the game's final run on a sacrifice fly. Freshman pitcher Amy Wray, who came on in relief in the sixth inning for starter Amanda Kardys, earned her first career win, hurling 1 2/3 innings of hitless relief and striking out one batter

Emory returns to action on Sunday when it plays Case Western at 10:00 am and Centre at 2:00 pm.