SALEM, Va. – Three runs in three hours. That's how many runs the Bridgewater Eagles scored in a rain delayed fourth inning as the Eagles softball team prevailed by a 3-1 score over Eastern Mennonite to stay alive in the ODAC softball tournament at the James I. Moyer Complex.

After three scoreless innings in soggy conditions, Bridgewater finally got things going at the plate in the fourth when a Hillary Rees single up the middle plated two runners to give the Eagles a 2-0 lead.

Later in the fourth, the skies opened up forcing the umpires to put the game into a weather delay which lasted for two hours, forty-nine minutes.

Out of the weather delay, Morris stung a double to the right center field gap, driving in Rees to extend the Eagles lead to 3-0 after three-and-a-half.

Starting pitcher Aven Thomas put the Royals down in order in the home half of the frame, to maintain a 3-0 lead after four complete.

Bridgewater came away scoreless in the fifth, but Eastern Mennonite cut into the Eagles lead with a RBI single to chip the lead to 3-1.

Eastern Mennonite threatened in the bottom of the sixth, putting runners on the corners with one out but Thomas punched out the last two batters of the inning to keep the game at a 3-1 Eagles lead.

After a scoreless top of the seventh, EMU led things off with a single to left field before an error at third base put runners at first and second for the Royals with no outs.

During the ensuing at-ba,t a lineout double play to Morris put the Eagles one out away from victory before a groundout to Rees ended the inning, pushing the Eagles to the loser's bracket final against Randolph.

At the plate, Morris' 2-for-3 game led the way for the Eagles. Rees also aided the offense with two RBI in a 1-for-4 effort.

In the circle, Aven Thomas was brilliant allowing just one run on six Eastern Mennonite hits in the win.

EMU was led offensively by Molly Smith's 2-for-3 effort, while Smith also picked up the loss in the circle.

Bridgewater is back in action at 9:30 p.m. on Friday night against Randolph College.