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Box Score 2 COLUMBUS, Ohio – Marietta College maintained a share of first place in the Ohio Athletic Conference softball standings with a doubleheader split at Capital University Saturday (April 6) afternoon. The Crusaders won the first game 6-5 and the Pioneers took game two, 6-4.
Marietta is in a three-way tie for first place in the OAC with a 5-1 league record. The Pioneers are 14-8 overall. Capital is 15-7 on the season and 4-2 in the OAC.
The Crusaders roughed up Pioneers starting pitcher
Alexis O'Hair (Maumee/Maumee) in the first game. O'Hair pitched 2.2 innings and allowed four runs on eight hits.
Marietta scored a run in the top of the first only to see Capital tie the game in the bottom of the inning on a solo home run from shortstop Devan Boggs.
The Pioneers' senior second baseman
Katie Swejk (Tallmadge/Tallmadge) led off the third inning with a single and quickly stole second. The stolen base was Swejk's 63rd career theft setting a new school record. Kim Brown, who played for the Pioneers from 1986-89, held the old mark of 62.
Swejk would eventually score on an RBI ground out off the bat of catcher
Ris McDaniel (Pickerington/North) giving the Pioneers a 2-1 lead.
The lead was short-lived as Capital plated three runs in the bottom of the inning chasing O'Hair from the circle. The Crusaders added a run in the sixth for a 5-2 lead heading into the final inning.
With two outs and runners on the corners, freshman
Kelsey Kallenborn (Marshallville/Smithville) pinch hit or Swejk and tied the game, 5-5, with a home run to left center.
Capital got its lead off runner on in the seventh on a costly fielding error by the Pioneers. A sac bunt moved the winning run into scoring position and then an RBI double gave the win to Capital, 6-5.
Brooke Billings (8-3) went the distance to pick up the win. She gave up five runs on five hits. Billings walked three and struck out one.
Trinity Schlabach (Wooster/Waynedale) (2-1) took the loss for Marietta in relief. Schlabach tossed 3.2 innings and allowed two unearned runs on four hits.
The Pioneers scored three runs in the top of the first inning of game two. Senior shortstop
Michelle Sayre (Ripley, W.Va./Ripley) delivered a two-run double in the inning.
Sayre drove in two more runs in the seventh with a double to right field. She would finish the game 2-for-4 with two doubles and four runs batted in.
Capital battled back scoring a run in each of its first three at bats to tie the game, 3-3 after three innings.
Marietta put three more runs on the board in the seventh to take a 6-3 lead. Capital got a solo home run from catcher Maura Rose in the bottom of the inning but its rally was cut short when Therese Becker lined into a double play to end the game.
Freshman
Lauren Larrick (Leesburg/Fairfield Local) (6-4) got the win for Marietta. Larrick threw 7.0 innings and allowed four runs on nine base hits. She walked two and struck out four.
Alyssa Patznick (7-4) took the loss working all 7.0 innings. Patznicj gave up six runs on nine hits. She walked five and had 11 strikeouts.
Third baseman
Sarah Mayo (Proctorville/Chesapeake) and designated hitter Kallenborn each went 2-for-4 for the Pioneers.
The Pioneers host Denison University Sunday (April 7) in a 1:00 p.m. doubleheader. Fans can catch the action live at
pioneers.marietta.edu. You can also follow the Pioneers on Facebook at
facebook.com/MariettaCollege and @MariettaPioneer on Twitter.
