BUCKHANNON – For the second consecutive year, the West Virginia Wesleyan softball team is heading to the NCAA Division II Super Regionals.

The Lady Bobcats will make the return trip after disposing of the Seton Hill Griffins by a 10-2 score in the NCAA Division II Atlantic 2 Regional Tournament today at Culpepper Field.

The game was halted in the bottom of the fifth-inning on the eight-run mercy rule.

Wesleyan will play the winner of the Atlantic 1 Region which will be either California (Pa.) or Charleston.

Unofficially, Wesleyan will host the Super Regional if it's Charleston. If Cal (Pa.) comes out of that Region, the Lady 'Cats will likely play at Cal (Pa.).

The Super Region Tournament will begin this Friday, May 15.

A two-run double by Ashley Hurey in the bottom of the second inning put Wesleyan on the board first.

Wesleyan sent 10 batters to the plate and scored five runs in the bottom of the third inning.

Anna Eggleston started the inning with a solo home run.

Seton Hill recorded the next two outs of the inning before Wesleyan went to work.

Krista Waggoner hit an infield single and Rebekah Honce crushed a double to right field that moved Waggoner to third.

Rachel Ramsey singled home both runners and advanced to second base on the throw at the plate.

Morgan Bruce hit a single and when the ball was thrown away, Ramsey crossed the plate to make it a 6-0 lead.

Bruce later scored when there was an error on Ashley Hurey's single.

Wesleyan ended the inning with a 7-0 advantage.

Seton Hill scored two runs in the top of the fourth inning to make it a 7-2 game.

Those two runs ended West Virginia Wesleyan pitcher Hannah Vet's 17-inning scoreless streak in the tournament.

Wesleyan got those two runs right back in the bottom of the fourth when Waggoner hit a sacrifice fly that scored Olivia Gore and Ramsey singled home pinch runner Becca Oneto.

That treated Wesleyan to a 9-2 lead.

Wesleyan wrapped the game up in the bottom of the fifth when Megan Malenstyn (pictured below) doubled home Brooklyn Waddell in the bottom of the fifth.

Wesleyan pounded out 14 hits in the win.

Waddell, Waggoner, Honce, Ramsey and Hurey each had two hits apiece.

Vet threw all five innings for Wesleyan as she improved her record to 20-3.

She allowed just one earned run on seven hits.

During the tournament she went 3-0 with an earned-run-average of 0.37.

The win improved Wesleyan to 38-8.

(Photos courtesy of Peter Galarneau Jr. and Sam Santilli)