BIG DAY FROM FRICKE KEEPS ONU ALIVE IN CCAC TOURNAMENT
| Final (9) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
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Olivet Nazarene | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
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Trinity Christian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Olivet Nazarene | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 1 |
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Indiana South Bend | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
CROWN POINT, Ind. – The Olivet Nazarene University softball team picked up a pair of wins Friday afternoon to stay alive in the CCAC Tournament. After downing Indiana South Bend 8-1 in their first game, the Tigers hung on for a 1-0 win in extra innings over Trinity Christian to advance to lower-bracket finals.
The Tigers got all the runs they would need in the third inning against IU-South Bend. Megan Mann broke the scoreless tie by taking advantage of a Titan error that allowed the speedy Vannah Vaughan to score.
That play sparked a two-out rally for ONU, with Mallory O'Cononr lacing an RBI single up the middle followed by a 2-RBI double off the bat of Allie Timm to make it 4-0 Tigers after three.
Both teams plated a run in the fifth inning, but ONU would tack on three more insurance runs in the final inning to put the game away. Kori Fricke picked up her 13th win of the year as the starter, allowing just one earned run on seven hits, striking out five Titans in the process. Timm recorded a game-high five RBIs in the win.
The win over IU-South Bend advanced the Tigers in the lower bracket where they squared off against Trinity Christian for the second time in the tournament. The Tigers were victorious 11-3 in five innings over the Trolls in their first game of the tournament.
Friday's rematch followed a very different script. The game found its way into extras after the seven scheduled innings of play went scoreless. After neither team found the scoreboard in the eighth inning, Timm led off the ninth inning by getting hit by a pitch. In the next at-bat, Avery Osborn roped an RBI triple to left field that got the game-winning run across.
In the bottom of the ninth, Fricke retired the Trolls in order to pick up her second complete-game win of the day. She went all nine innings as the starter, blanking the Trolls on five hits and nine strikeouts.
WHAT'S NEXT?
The win advances the Tigers to the lower-bracket finals, where they will face off against Roosevelt at 1 p.m. for the right to play against Saint Xavier in the CCAC Tournament Finals.
--ONU—
*Contact: Evan Wild, Sports Information Director, ewwild@olivet.edu