ONU LIGHTS UP SCOREBOARD IN DOUBLEHEADER SWEEP OF CARDINAL STRITCH
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Cardinal Stritch (WI) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
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Olivet Nazarene | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4 | X | 14 | 13 | 0 |
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Cardinal Stritch (WI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
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Olivet Nazarene | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | X | 14 | 13 | 1 |
BOURBONNAIS, Ill. – The Olivet Nazarene University softball team put up 14 runs in each game of a doubleheader to sweep the Cardinal Stritch Wolves at Tiger Field Wednesday afternoon. The sweep propels the Tigers to 22-12 overall and 10-3 in the CCAC standings.
Game 1: Olivet Nazarene 14, Cardinal Stritch 2
ONU scratched multiple runs across in every inning to end things early in the opener, doing so off 13 hits. Haley Dobson led the charge with three hits and three RBIs. Margaret Landis, Mallory O'Connor, and Kori Fricke all picked up two hits each.
The Tigers got all the runs they would need in the first inning, batting around the entire lineup for five runs to kick things off. Haley Dobson opened the scoring with a 2-RBI double and was quickly plated by Megan Mann, the reigning CCAC Player of the Week, on an RBI single in the next at-bat. Kate Landis and Landes Benedict both tallied RBIs to round out the big first inning.
The Tigers punched in two runs in the second, three more in the third, and capped things off with four runs in the fourth to put 14 runs on the scoreboard by the end of the inning, ending it via mercy rule at 14-2.
Kori Fricke struck out four in her three innings as the ONU starter, picking up her team-leading eighth win of the season. Madelynn Flinn pitched two innings of one-run ball in relief.
Game 2: Olivet Nazarene 14, Cardinal Stritch 0
The Tigers kept the bats hot as Allie Timm shut down the Wolves (5-11, 3-11 CCAC) in the nightcap. In five innings of work, Timm fanned eight strikeouts and limited Cardinal Stritch to just four hits in the complete-game shutout. It marked Timm's third win of the season.
ONU continued to click in the batter's box, pounding out 13 more hits for 14 more runs in the second game, highlighted by a nine-spot second inning that all but sealed the game. The Tigers sent 14 hitters to the plate in the second inning alone, including a stretch of nine-straight at-bats with two outs.
A total of nine Tigers picked up a hit in the mercy rule win. Margaret Landis, Mann, Zoe Oshiro, and Timm all recorded two hits apiece. Dobson and Landis each recorded three RBIs in the win.
WHAT'S NEXT?
The Tigers will take on Trinity International in Deerfield, Ill., Monday, April 24, for a makeup doubleheader. The first game is set for 3 p.m. CST.
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*Contact: Evan Wild, Sports Information Director, ewwild@olivet.edu
