WASHINGTON - Shikara Lowe (Beaverton, Ore./Jesuit) and Jenna Stark (Huntington Beach, Calif./Orange Lutheran) tallied three hits apiece and Mackensey Carter (Mission Viejo, Calif./Mission Viejo) homered for the second time in the past three games to power the Georgetown University softball team to an 11-6 victory over Delaware in the first game of a doubleheader at the Radford Invitational on Friday afternoon. The Hoyas dropped their second game of the day, 8-0, to Ball State.

The split snaps a six-game losing streak and puts GU's record at 4-18 on the year.

Georgetown jumped on the Blue Hens early and was never challenged en route to its most lopsided victory of the season. In the first inning, Lowe sparked a two-run, two-out rally with a single and then promptly stole second base to put herself in scoring position. After a Jillian Webb (Hemet, Calif./Hemet) walk, Stark knocked in Lowe with her first hit of the afternoon to put the Hoyas up 1-0. Webb scored on an error by the shortstop off the bat of junior Cara Savarese (Syosset, N.Y./Syosset) to tally the team's second run of the inning.

Carter hit her third home run of the season, a two-run shot, as part of a three-run second inning that extended Georgetown's lead to 5-0. The fifth inning, would be the only one in which GU would not score, as the team pushed a run across in third and fourth and tacked on two insurance runs in each of the sixth and seventh to secure the win.

Sophomore Jordan Hansen (Omaha, Neb./Millard West), senior Kristi Preuss (LaPlata, Md./LaPlata) and sophomore Callie Eward (Oak Hill, Va./Oakton) each had two hits for the Hoyas, who set season-highs for runs and hits (16) to back up Carter's fourth complete game of the season. The junior allowed four earned runs on eight hits while striking out two. Webb and freshman Alexandria Anttila (Antioch, Ill./Antioch Community) also extended their hitting streaks to four games in the win.

The Hoyas fell to Ball State in the nightcap after giving up seven runs combined in the fourth and fifth innings.

Georgetown plays Robert Morris at 1 p.m. and Radford at 3 p.m. on Saturday.