VILLANOVA, PA (04/29/03) -- After dropping the opener, 5-2, to Villanova, Saint Joseph's jumped out to a 6-1 lead after three innings of play in the nightcap and looked well on its way to a split against its city rivals. But the Wildcats exploded for 13 runs over the next three innings, including seven in the fourth inning, to take game two, 14-6, and sweep the twinbill. SJU falls to 21-12 while Villanova improves to 30-11-1. In the opener, Villanova exploded for four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to overcome a 2-1 deficit. The ?Nova rally came with two outs and a runner on first base. First, Sarah Wall doubled to score Sara Carlson and knot the score at two. Then, Allison Wisniewski singled and took second on the throw, moving Wall over to third. Kriste Romano then ripped a single through the left side, scoring Wall and giving Villanova their first lead since the bottom of the first. Ricci Lugo put the 'Cats up by three with a two-run double down the left field line, scoring Wisniewski and Romano. Villanova had scored first, taking a 1-0 lead on a RBI single by Carlson in the first. It could have been more, but junior Lindsey McNamara threw Lugo out at the plate right before the Carlson single with sophomore catcher Alicia Cunic blocking the VU speedster from scoring. SJU tied it in the second inning as Cunic, who doubled to left to open the frame, came around on a third-strike, wild pitch to Robin Berry, who advanced to first on the play. McNamara singled home sophomore shortstop Cara Deldeo, who doubled, with the Hawks' second run in the top of the third. Junior pitcher Dana Travis (9-6), who recorded her 100th strikeout of the season in the game, worked out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the fifth before allowing four in the sixth. Travis retired the Wildcats top of the order, including the dangerous Lucci, who entered the game with a .408 average, to end the fifth. Travis, who has 361 career strikeouts, now needs nine to pass Bonnie Gasior (369, 1990-93) to move into second place on the Hawks' all-time list. She only needs 12 to become the school's all-time strikeout queen. Christina Kowalski, who fanned 372 from 1997-2000, currently tops the Hawk list. In the nightcap, Cunic hit a solo homer to left and doubled in two runs in a six-run second inning to lift SJU to its 6-1 lead. After that it was all ?Nova as both Carlson and Kari Koller hit grand slams. Carlson hit her slam, her first homer of the season, to cap VU's seven-run fourth. She was the first batter that Deldeo (4-3), who came in from her shortstop position to relieve starter Brandie Adams. Megan Richardson and Jill Clementi joined Cunic with two hits apiece in the game for SJU. SJU, which had its Thursday twinbill against Mount St. Mary's cancelled, next plays at the Princeton Invitational on Saturday.