FROSTBURG, MD.- The Christopher Newport softball team kept up its offensive production Sunday, sweeping a Capital Athletic Conference doubleheader at Frostburg State. The Captains took the opener by a 12-4 score, and then downed the Bobcats in the nightcap, 10-1, in a game shortened to five innings because of the eight run rule.

CNU is now 15-6 overall and 4-0 in the CAC. The Captains scored 57 runs this weekend in four road victories over Southern Virginia and Frostburg State for an average of 14 runs per game.

Game one saw the Captains fall behind by a 4-0 margin as the Bobcats posted four in the first inning off CNU starter Hanah Marshall. Keith Parr's Captains bounced back by scoring a run in the second inning on a Sabrina Hill RBI double to make it a 4-1 score. Both pitchers then settled in and it looked as though it might be a low-scoring game until the Captains exploded for eight runs in a huge fifth inning.

Freshman Brittney Walters and junior Tori Clarke both plated two runs with key hits in the fifth. Junior Meagan Jones and sophomore Rachael Shiflett also registered RBI hits, and sophomore Jenna Sprinkle brought home a run with a bases-loaded walk. The big frame gave the Captains a 9-4 advantage, and CNU added three more in the seventh to complete the 12-4 triumph. Jones knocked in two more with a triple, and junior Scoop Simon accounted for the final run with a run-scoring groundout.

Marshall went the distance in the pitching circle, and didn't allow a run after the first inning. She scattered nine hits and improved her record to 8-2 for the season.

In the second game, the Captains picked up where they left off by scoring four runs in the second inning and then four more in the fifth en route to the 10-1 victory. CNU used the long ball in game two to put away the Bobcats as three Captains recorded home runs.

Senior Sabrina Hill clobbered her fourth home run of the season to start the scoring in the second inning. Her two-run shot was the 36th of her career, just seven shy of Jessie Atkinson for the all-time school record for career home runs.

In the fourth inning, junior Meagan Jones clubbed her third home run of the season, also a two-run shot. Jones finished the day with five hits and five runs batted in and also scored three times.

Junior catcher Hannah Cook served up a grand slam home run in the fifth inning to complete the CNU scoring. Cook and Hill now both have four home runs this season to top the squad.

Sophomore Krista Lewis threw game two for CNU, allowing just one run in five innings of work. The victory improved her record to 7-4 for the season.

CNU finished the day with 22 runs on 25 hits against Frostburg State pitching. The Bobcats are now 9-6 on the year and 0-2 in conference play.

The 24th-ranked Captains have two key conference doubleheaders coming up this week. CNU hosts Mary Washington on Wednesday at Captains Park (3:00 p.m. start) before heading to Salisbury on Saturday to take on the 2nd-ranked Sea Gulls.