The Lakeland University softball team rallied late in the first game, played from ahead in the second and came out with its first doubleheader sweep of the season against Edgewood College Saturday afternoon.

The Muskies won the first game 5-4 and then came back and took the second contest 7-3. Lakeland improved to 3-1 in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference and is at the .500 mark for the season overall for the first time with a 10-10 record.

The Muskies came back from a 3-1 deficit in the opener, scoring once in the fourth and then three times in the fifth to take the lead. Morgan Schiedemeyer (Jr.-Menomonee Falls, Wis.) singled in the go-ahead run and Amber Andersen (Sr.-Chicago, Ill.) added an RBI single that would prove to be very important when Edgewood (6-12 overall, 0-6 NACC) mounted its own rally in the seventh.

Cassidy Nelson singled to drive in a run with two outs in the seventh to make it a one-run game again, and Sabrina Luedtke followed with a single to move up Nelson and put the tying run at second and the go-ahead run at first. Maddy Coppens hit a grounder on the infield, though, and Nelson ran into the ball, making her out and ending the game.

Lakeland stayed on a roll in the second game, scoring three times in the first two innings to take the lead, adding two more in both the fifth and sixth frames, and getting another strong pitching performance from Leah Binsfeld (So.-Kaukauna, Wis.).

The Muskies rapped out 12 hits in the game, with Binsfeld, Schiedemeyer and Cheyenne Mathas (Fr.-St. John, Ind.) also leading with two hits each. Andersen also added two RBIs, and all nine starters posted at least one hit, six drove in at least one run and six scored at least once.

Binsfeld pitched another complete game, allowing eight hits and three runs, all in the sixth inning as the Eagles briefly closed to within 5-3. She also added a save in the first game, finishing the seventh inning after Rikki Vela (Sr.-Beach Park, Ill.) pitched four innings in relief and allowed just one run to earn her first win of the season.

Andersen and Taylor Bush (Sr.-Waukesha, Wis.) both went 3-for-3 in the first game, with Bush doubling twice and scoring twice.

The Muskies are on the road tomorrow when they take on Concordia University Wisconsin for a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m. in Mequon.