JERSEY CITY, N.J. – The Fairleigh Dickinson softball team swept Saint Peter's in a road doubleheader Tuesday afternoon, earning a 9-0 win followed by an 8-5 victory.
 
The Knights (7-18) totaled 20 hits on the afternoon and held the Peacocks (3-16) to just eight total hits for the day, including just one in the shutout win. The Knights bashed 11 hits in the first game, including their first home run of the season, and then nine more hits in the second game. Eight of the 20 hits went for extra bases, including seven doubles.
 
Junior Madison Emerson led the Knights offensively, going 6-for-8 with three RBI and three runs scored and a double. Junior Summer Mendoza went 3-for-6 with two doubles, two RBI and two runs scored, and sophomore Rylie Schmeh had hits in each game, going 2-for-4 with a run scored in the first game followed by a 1-for-3 effort with a RBI and run scored.
 
Sophomore Abby England hit the home run for the Knights, her first of the season and fourth of her career, and finished the first game 2-for-4 with a double, three RBI and a run scored. Freshman Amarys Miller-Godsey collected two hits in the second game, including an RBI double. Senior Holly Mercier finished the day with three RBI and three runs scored as well.
 
Senior Baylee Ports allowed only one hit and one walk in tossing her second complete game shutout of the season in the first game. She also struck out a season-best eight batters in earning her third victory of the season, not allowing a hit until giving up a single in the fifth inning.
 
In the early game, the Knights put the first run on the board with a single by Emerson to right field that drove in Schmeh in the top half of the first inning. Emerson then made it 2-0 with a line drive double to center that plated Mendoza through three innings.
 
FDU then added three more runs in the fourth inning with an England lead-off double leading to the first run on a Mercier RBI single, plating pinch runner Samantha Cortez. Mendoza then launched a line drive double to right that led to another run, and Schmeh then singled home Mendoza to make it 5-0.
 
The Knights added two more runs in the fifth, and England blasted her deep home run to center in the seventh to help make the final score.
 
In the later game, the Knights again scored a first-inning run on an Emerson RBI single and then added two runs apiece in the second and third innings. Mendoza doubled in a run in the second inning, and Miller-Godsey hit a RBI double to center in the third inning to help make it 5-0 FDU.
 
The Peacocks got one run back in the bottom of the third inning and scored another in the sixth to make it 5-2. The Knights, however, poured in three more runs in the top of the seventh with a Cortez three-run double, marking her first extra-base hit and runs batted in of her collegiate career.
 
Saint Peter's mounted a rally in the bottom of the seventh and scored three more runs, but the Knights were able to secure the final out with the bases loaded to hold on for the win.
 
Junior Erica Johnson pitched a complete game with a career-high nine strikeouts in the late game, allowing three earned runs on seven hits and five walks.
 
The wins extended FDU's winning streak against Saint Peter's to 14 straight games dating back to 2010.
 
The Knights take the next seven days off before playing again on Wednesday, March 27, in a doubleheader at Hartford starting at 2:30 p.m. FDU then hosts their first home and Northeast Conference games of the season on March 30 and 31 against Sacred Heart and LIU Brooklyn, respectively.