NORTON, Mass. -- Junior shortstop Lindsey Oliveira's (Westport, Mass.) 100th career hit was a two-run walk-off homer to give the Wheaton College (Mass.) softball team a 2-1 win in eight innings over visiting Emmanuel College (Mass.) in game one of a double-header today at the Clark Softball Field on the Wheaton campus in Norton, Mass.

The Lyons improve to 21-12 on the season, while the Saints fall to 18-15.

The teams were both held without a run entering the eighth inning, before Emmanuel scratched out a marker in the top of the eighth without the benefit of a hit to get on the board. Wheaton countered with two runs in the bottom of the frame to come away with the win.

Oliveira was 1-4 with two RBI and a run scored, while sophomore center fielder Grace DiBacco (Selkirk, N.Y.) was 2-3 with a double to pace the Lyons in the opening contest. Junior starting pitcher Sofia Knopf (Norton, Mass.) was outstanding in game one, allowing one unearned run on just one hit to go with three walks and five strikeouts in eight complete innings to improve to 10-5 on the year.

Sophomore Madison Marks (Edgewater Park, N.J.) registered the only hit with a double for the Saints. Senior starting pitcher Tianna Dawe (Lynn, Mass.) suffered the loss to drop to 9-13 after giving up two runs (one earned) on eight hits and two walks in addition to striking out a batter for Emmanuel.

Knopf entered the seventh inning with a no-hitter for Wheaton and had set down 11 straight batters from the first to the fourth inning. She did not allow a runner past second base until the eighth inning. Marks broke up the no-hitter when she opened the seventh with a double to the fence for the Saints, but was stranded there.

The Lyons threatened to win the game in the bottom of the seventh after first year first base Lily Platt (Hallowell, Maine) led off the frame with a single to center field, before she advanced to second on a sacrifice and to third ahead of a single to left off the bat of Knopf. Dawe retired the final two batters of the inning for Emmanuel to send the game into extra innings. 

Senior Lylah Niederberger (Buzzards Bay, Mass.) was placed on second base to start the eighth inning as per the international tie-breaker rule. Sophomore center fielder Taylor Chelak (Westborough, Mass.) flew out to right field and Niederberger scampered to third on the play. Senior right fielder Julyanne Pachecho (Somerset, Mass.) followed with a perfect bunt near the Wheaton pitcher, but the throw home was not in time to prevent the Saints' only run of the game to give them a 1-0 edge.

Sophomore Juliette Zito (Woodbridge, Conn.) was placed on second base for the home team in the bottom of the eighth, before Oliveira crushed a one-out pitch over the left field fence to give her 100 career hits and the Lyons a 2-1 win.