The surging N.C. State softball team extended its winning streak to six games with a comprehensive 11-0 victory in five innings over the Elon Phoenix at Hunt Baseball Park in Elon Wednesday night. With the win, N.C. State’s 13th in its last 15 games, the Pack improve to 27-18-1 on the season. 

The victory over Elon marked the ninth time this season the Wolfpack has won a game shortened by the run-rule. 

State started off with a bang by sending nine batters to the plate in the first inning. The Pack tallied five runs in the opening frame, culminated by a three-run blast by junior first baseman Leah Jones and N.C. State never looked back. 

The team had 11 hits and four bases on balls to only three strikeouts.

“We did a really good job of coming out and getting on the board early,” head coach Shawn Rychcik said. “This was a game we needed to come out and take care of business and we did that.”

“I was happy to see us get out like that early.”

Last season’s ACC Rookie of the Year Renada Davis also bashed a two-run homer in the fifth inning. The sophomore shortstop leads the conference and is second in the nation with 21 home runs on the season. 

N.C. State has 64 home runs on the season and is only two away from tying the school record set in 2007.

The winning pitcher was once again sophomore Emily Weiman. The right-hander improved to 25-16 on the season and has not allowed a run in her last 19.2 innings.

“It makes winning a lot easier when we don’t give up any runs,” Rychcik said. “Emily wasn’t perfect today, but Elon is a good-hitting team and she did a good job of getting them out.”

Junior rightfielder Scout Albertson also added to the offensive barrage with three RBIs. Albertson, who drove in the second run of the game in the top of the first inning with a single, also knocked in two runs with a bases-loaded hit with two outs in the fourth inning to extend State’s lead to 7-0.

The Wolfpack will conclude its regular season this weekend with a three-game series in Chestnut Hill, Mass. versus the last place Boston College Eagles. There will be a double-header on Saturday followed by a single game on Sunday. The Pack will enter this weekend with a chance to finish as high as second place in the ACC standings. 

Gametime for the opener on Saturday is 1 p.m. and the series will conclude with a noon tilt on Sunday.