CALEDONIA—The Grand Valley State softball team swept Davenport in its first road test of its GLIAC season on Friday afternoon.
 
The Lakers took the first game, 3-1, and won behind the strong pitching of Hannah Beatus. GVSU went into 10 innings, but defeated the Panthers, 6-2, in the second game.
 
Kaitlin Lynch racked up six hits on the day for the Lakers (23-3, 7-0 GLIAC), helping them sweep Davenport (9-18, 4-4).
 
Game 1 – GVSU 3, Davenport 1
 
Hannah Beatus was dealing from the circle once again for GVSU. The nation's leader in ERA threw a complete game and tossed 12 strikeouts. She allowed two runs on seven hits and earned her 10th win of the season.
 
GVSU scored twice in the sixth inning to extend its lead and put away the first game of the doubleheader.
 
Hannah Hollister extended the Laker lead in the top of the sixth. She hit a fly ball to left field that went over the left fielder's head and Hollister came all the way around to score for an inside the park home run.
 
Megan Koenigshof drove in another run in the sixth to give GVSU a, 5-2, lead. She grounded out to second base to drive in Morgan Spicer.
 
The Lakers added two runs in the top of the seventh. Joanna Cirrincione scored on an error and Lydia Goble scored on a fielder's choice to pad the GVSU lead in the final inning.
 
Spicer got the Lakers on the board in the top of the fourth, sending a line drive over the right-field wall for a solo home run. Spicer's home run was her first of the season.
 
Davenport responded in the bottom half of the fourth inning, scoring one on an RBI single from Emma Miller, knotting the game back up at one run apiece.
 
The Lakers hit back-to-back sacrifice flies to give GVSU a, 3-1, lead in the top half of the fifth inning. Lydia Goble and Morgan Wagner hit back-to-back sacrifice flies to drive in a pair of runs to retake the lead.
 
Davenport added a run in the home half of the fifth inning, making it a, 3-2, game after five innings.
 
Game 2 – GVSU 6, Davenport 2 (10 Innings)
 
The Lakers went to 10 innings, but ended up completing the sweep, winning, 6-2.
 
In the top of 10th inning, with the international tiebreak rule enforced (runner on second base to begin the inning), Liberti Fair kicked off the inning with a single and advancing Morgan Spicer to third base.
 
Eliana Eiland was up next and hit a single back up the middle to score Spicer, making it, 3-2, Lakers.
 
After the Lakers loaded the bases, Joanna Cirrincione hit a sacrifice fly, scoring Fair. A throwing error from the Davenport shortstop helped Eiland score on the play, giving GVSU a, 5-2, advantage.
 
Lydia Goble singled up the middle on the next play to bring home one more run, making it, 6-2, which was the final score.
 
The Laker offense got on the board early in the second game. Cirrincione ended up on third base after a throwing error by the catcher when she stole second base. Lydia Goble followed her and sent a ball back up the middle to score Cirrincione and give the Lakers a quick, 1-0, lead.
 
Davenport answered in the third inning, scoring a run to tie the game at, 1-1, with an RBI single from Lindsay Goodman.
 
GVSU took the lead again in the top of the fourth inning when Joanna Cirrincione walked with the bases loaded. Fair scored to make it a, 2-1, lead for the Lakers.
 
Davenport was down to its final out in the bottom of the seventh but was able to bring home the tying run in the seventh, sending the game to extra innings at, 2-2.
 
The Lakers stranded 16 runners total, including leaving the bases loaded in the fourth and fifth innings.
 
Ashley Platek tossed all 10 innings, allowing just six hits and two runs. She struck out five and walked five. Platek retired Davenport batters in order in all three of the game's extra innings.
 
UP NEXT
 
The Lakers are set to take on Saginaw Valley State for a pair of road games at 1 p.m. on Saturday.