UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, OHIO — Marietta College softball stretched second place John Carroll University to a pair of 10-innings games Saturday (April 23) afternoon but had to settle for a 2-1 and 3-4 Ohio Athletic Conference doubleheader split. [Game 1 Box Score] [Game 2 Box Score]

With the split the Pioneers remained at .500 (8-8) in the league and moved to 18-13 overall. The Blue Streaks improved to 22-10, 10-4 in the OAC.

Sophomore #Chelsea Chaffin (Wheelersburg/Wheelersburg)# limited John Carroll to just one run on eight hits and struck out six in the complete-game victory in the opener.

Marietta took a 1-0 advantage when sophomore #Michelle Sayre (Ripley, W.Va./Ripley)# singled home a run in the third. John Carroll tied the score with a run in the sixth. The Pioneers snapped the deadlock when Chaffin drew a bases loaded walk to plate senior #Maureen Kertes (Cape Elizabeth, Maine/Cape Elizabeth)# with the winning run in the top of the tenth.

Freshman #Katie Swejk (Tallmadge/Tallmadge)# had two of the Pioneers' seven hits, including a double, in the victory.

Game two saw the majority of the offense occur in the first inning, as Marietta plated three runs only for John Carroll to answer with a pair. Sophomore #Marissa McDaniel#, Kertes and sophomore #Trayla Liles (Tollesboro, Ky./Lewis County)# all had RBI in the frame.

The Blue Streaks rallied to knot the game at three with two outs in the bottom of the seventh. They then sealed the split with a walk-off single in the 10th.

Chaffin (15-9) suffered the loss despite giving up just one unearned run on one hit over the final two and two-thirds innings. Junior #Hazel Brogdon (Chugiak, Alaska/Chugiak)# held the Blue Streaks to just three runs on six hits over the first six and two-thirds frames.

Marietta closes out the regular season at 1 p.m. Saturday (April 30) when it visits Otterbein University.