AUBURN – Sam Morency has analyzed, tinkered and practiced her swing every way she’s known how.

This year, she decided the best approach at the plate was to just swing away.

“Over the past two years, I’ve been over-analyzing,” said the Lewiston shortstop. “So my senior year, I’ve been going out there and having fun – swing the bat and just letting every mechanic that I practiced do its work and do it’s thing. All these practice swings have paid off because I don’t have to think about it. It just comes naturally.”

Morency has been one of the Blue Devils’ hottest hitters of late and her torrid pace didn’t change Tuesday. Morency paced Lewiston to an early lead and helped the Blue Devils complete a regular-season sweep of Edward Little with a 6-3 win.

Morency had three hits and drove in two runs as Lewiston (11-3) built a 5-0 lead. She finished with two RBIs and two runs scored in addition to her solid play in the field, which included turning a double play in the sixth off a line drive up the middle. Clean-up hitter Maria Labbe also drove in a pair and had two hits, giving Lewiston a fearsome one-two punch in the heart of the order.

“Having Carley Dennis and Erica Morin in front of them, two speedsters, that gives them the incentive,” said Lewiston coach Fred Royer. “They’re coming through.”

EL rallied with two runs in the second and one in the third to get within two, but the Red Eddies couldn’t overcome the early hole. EL stranded three runners in three of the final four innings.

“That’s the way it’s been all year,” said EL coach Elaine Keene. “We get some runners on, and we leave them stranded. People are doing things to get on base, but we’re not finishing.”

Lewiston made it 2-0 in the first. After Morin walked, Morency doubled her in and advanced on a wild pitch. Labbe followed with a sacrifice fly that scored Morency.

“It’s encouraging knowing there’s someone on the bases,” said Labbe. “When there’s someone on base, you know the goal is to get them in. Even if it’s a sacrifice, it’s worth something.”

The Blue Devils padded the lead in the third. After a Denis single, Morency tripled her in.

“We want to get on them early and often,” said Morency. “We want to show them we mean business, and that we’re here to win the game and have fun while we’re doing it.”

Labbe followed but stepped into the left-handed hitter’s batting box. She lined a sharp single by third base to plate Morency.

“We did it in a game last year,” said Labbe of batting left-handed. “Usually it is just to throw them off, but I got a good pitch. So I went for it.”

Labbe later scored on a Michelle Caron single. Another Lewiston run was cut down at the plate on the hit on a nice throw from Alice Read in center and tag at the plate by Becca Witten.

EL (4-10) got two back in the bottom of the third. Kim Lawrence doubled and scored on an error on a Jena Dubois grounder. Dubois later scored on a Megan Hussar single, getting a pass home after an interference call at third.

“It was a strange inning, the interference call, a hit, a walk,” said Royer. “There were a lot of strange plays in the field.”

EL made it 5-3 in the fourth when Witten singled, advanced on wild pitches and scored on a Lawrence ground out.

Lawrence pitched well in relief of Alyssa Levesque. She allowed a run in the sixth when Alex White scored on a wild pitch, but otherwise, she kept Lewiston within reach. EL had just five hits and couldn’t muster a rally against Danielle Willey.

“We’ve hit the best pitchers hard,” said Keene. “We tell them everyday that they’re good hitters, but they’re not coming into games confident in themselves. When one person starts to get a hit, they all jump on the bandwagon and say ‘We can do it too,’ but sometimes, it’s a little too late.”