LAKE WALES, Fla. – The Royals broke out the brooms over Thomas University this afternoon in thrilling fashion. Warner swept Thomas in back to back walk-off wins. Impressively, Royals Freshman Breyonna Shell, delivered both game winning hits and 3 RBI's off the two hits to give the Royals the victories. 
 
GAME 1 – WU 3, TU 2 (8 Innings)
 
The Night Hawks struck first in the top of the 3^rdinning off of a double that scored a run. 
 
In the bottom of the sixth, the Royals answered back with a single off the bat of Sara Bruno that scored Kayleigh Walters and tied the game at 1-1. 
 
An exciting 7^thinning started in the top of the 7^thwhen the Night Hawks plated a run off another double and took a 2-1 lead. 
 
Brittany Winget got things started in the bottom of the 7^thwhen she connected with a leadoff double off the wall in left field. Megan Garfinkel singled in to centerfield and Winget advanced to 3^rd. With 2 outs, Kayleigh Walters singled on the infield that scored Winget and tied the game 2-2. 
 
Brooke Olinger took over inside of the circle for Sylvia Welsh in the top of the 8^thinning. With the International tie-breaking rules in play, a runner was placed on 2^ndbase for the Night Hawks to start the inning. The Night Hawks started with a sacrifice bunt advancing the runner to 3^rdbase. Olinger sat down the Night Hawks 1-2-3 in the top half of the inning to slam the door shut.
 
The Royals took over in the bottom of the 8^thwith Ashton Owen placed on 2^ndbase. Sara Bruno stepped in and had a productive ground out that advance Owen to 3^rdbase. Breyonna Shell geared up and rifled a single to left field that scored Owen and completed the extra innings walk-off victory for the Royals! 
 
Sylvia Welsh threw 7 solid innings spreading out 8-hits and 2-runs while striking out 4. Brooke Olinger took over and threw a hitless 8^thinning. Olinger sniped the win improving her to 9-3 on the season. 
 
GAME 2 – WU 5, TU 4
 
The Night Hawks struck first again off an RBI single from Farr taking the 1-0 lead. 
 
Abigail Oliver stepped in for the Royals in the bottom of the 5^thand flashed her bat singling down the left field line scoring Kasey Heslin and Caitlyn Yockey giving the Royals a 2-1 lead. 
The 7^thinning again held a lot of excitement as the Night Hawks added what looked to be a game ending 3-runs in the top of the 7^thgiving them a 4-2 lead. 
 
Reaching on an error with one out, Kasey Heslin made the Night Hawks pay swiping second base for her team leading 11^thstolen bag of the season. A productive ground out by Kayleigh Walters moved Heslin to 3^rdbase. Heslin took off on a wild pitch and scored moving the Royals within 1-run with two outs. Ashton Owen kept the offense firing with a hard-single right back up the middle. Abigail Oliver dug in and showed patience drawing her 2^ndwalk of the game giving the Royals runners on 1^stand 2^ndbase. Breyonna Shell walked off for the second time blasting a double deep to left center that scored Owen from 2^ndbase and Oliver from 1^stbase completing the back to back walk-offs. 
 
Brittany Winget came away with the complete 7-inning game spreading out 10-hits and 4-runs. Winget improves to 5-3 on the season with the win. 
 
FINAL THOUGHTS
 
The Royals have now won 4-straight while winning 7 of their last 8 games improving to 23-9 overall and a 9-7 Sun Conference record.