MARIETTA, Ohio — Marietta College and Baldwin Wallace University split an Ohio Athletic Conference softball doubleheader Friday (April 7) afternoon at Marietta Field. The Yellow Jackets won the first game, 9-6, and the Pioneers took game two, 10-2, in five innings.
Marietta moves to 14-6 overall and 5-1 in the OAC. Baldwin Wallace is now 12-10 overall and 4-2 in the OAC.
The Pioneers couldn't overcome an early 4-0 deficit in the first game. Baldwin Wallace took advantage of four walks and a hit batsman to score four runs in the first inning with just one base hit.
The Yellow Jackets made it 5-0 in the second with an RBI single from Lexy Coggins.
Marietta got on the board in the third and trailed 6-5 after a three-run fifth inning. The Pioneers executed a first and third double steal to score their first run of the game in the third inning.
Mackenzie Hartrum (Nashport, Ohio/Tri-Valley) drew a bases-loaded walk in the fourth.
Rachel Kazmirski (Colliers, W.Va./Brooke) drove in two runs with a single through the right side of the infield in the fifth.
Jess Brown (Brookville, Ohio/Brookville) drove in Kazmirski with a double to left field.
Baldwin Wallace got three in the top of seventh to put the game away.
Marisa Hall (8-4) started in the circle for BW and got the win. She worked 6.0 innings and allowed five runs on nine hits with three walks and five strikeouts. Taryn Welty pitched the seventh and gave up one run on one hit.
Kazmirski (1-2) started and took the loss for the Pioneers. She gave up four runs on no hits with four walks and one strikeout.
Amelia Timko (Brunswick, Ohio/Brunswick) allowed three runs on seven hits in 5.1 innings, while
Jillian Middleton (Marietta, Ohio/Marietta) allowed two runs on three hits in 1.0 inning of work.
Kazmirski was 3-for-4 with a double and two RBI. Brown and
Taylor Watts (Galloway, Ohio/West Jefferson) had two hits each.
Marietta exploded for eight runs in the bottom of the first inning of game two. The big blow was a grand slam from Middelton. Shelby Metzer laced a two-run single to right field and
Camryn Campbell (Mansfield, Ohio/Lexington) drove in a run with a single to center field.
Baldwin Wallace got on the board with a pair of runs in the fourth. The Yellow Jackets took advantage of two Pioneer errors in the inning.
The Pioneers answered with two runs in the home half of the inning setting up the run-rule victory. Brown drove in both runs with a single to left.
Breanna Zirkle (Pomeroy, Ohio/Meigs) (3-0) got the win in relief of Kazmirski. Zirkle pitched 1.2 innings and gave up two runs, one earned, on one hit. Kazmirski worked 2.0 innings and allowed no runs on two hits. Middleton worked the final 1.1 innings and gave up no runs on one hit.
Hannah Welling (4-4) started and didn't make it out of the first inning. She was charged with eight runs, seven earned, on five hits with three walks. Welty threw the final 3.1 innings and allowed two runs on five hits.
Metzger, Middleton, Brown, and
Taylor Airy (Dublin, Ohio/Dublin Coffman) each had two hits in the game for the Pioneers.
Marietta travels to Hiram College on Monday (April 10) to make up the nonconference doubleheader that was originally scheduled for April 2. The first game starts at 3:30 p.m.
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