[Softball] Trevecca Softball | Four Trojans Homer in Sweep of Ohio Valley; Face Findlay on Saturday
VIENNA, W. Va. - The Trevecca Nazarene University softball team (21-7-1, 8-2 Great Midwest) won a pair of games from conference rival Ohio Valley University (2-21, 0-10 Great Midwest). The first, a 13-1 win, and the second, a 14-6 victory.
GAME ESSENTIALS: Great Midwest Athletic Conference Standings | Stats | Great Midwest Scores | D2 Scores
FINAL GAME ONE: Trevecca Trojans (20-7-1, 7-2 G-MAC) 13, Ohio Valley (2-20, 0-9 G-MAC) 1
FINAL GAME TWO: Trevecca Trojans (21-7-1, 8-2 G-MAC) 14, Ohio Valley (2-21, 0-10 G-MAC) 6
LOCATION: Vienna, W. Va. | Jackson Park Fields
SERIES HISTORY/NOTES: Trevecca and Ursuline have met 14 times during the NCAA era. Trevecca leads the series 13-1.
GAME CHRONICLE
GAME ONE
TNU scored one in the first inning after Megan Groves (FR/White House, TN) drove in Makray Odom … the Trojans scored four more runs in the top of the second inning … Mary Collins (JR/Collierville, TN) hit a lead-off single … a pair of walks from Kat Burbrink (SR/Hamilton, OH) and Kelsey Seitz (FR/Milford, OH) loaded the bases … Makray Odom hit a sacrifice fly which scored pinch runner Maddux Reid (JR/Bourbonnais, IL) … Bailey Alexander (JR/Glasgow, KY) then hit a two run double … Megan Groves then doubled to bring in Alexander … Kelsey Seitz led off the fourth with a single … Makray Odom singled … Bailey Alexander hit a sacrifice fly to score Seitz … Megan Groves then hit another double and scored Alexander … Groves also scored herself on an error in the inning … Mary Collins singled in the fifth and was driven in by Danielle Horton (SR/Columbia, TN) who hit a two run single … Bailey Alexander hit a three-run homer to cap the scoring for the Trojans … the Trojans won 13-1 in five innings.
GAME TWO
TNU scored first in game two when Danielle Horton singled with two outs and stole second and third … Horton scored off Bailey Alexander's RBI single … the Trojans took at 2-1 lead in the third after Ali Birchfield (SO/Trenton, GA) drove in Makray Odom … TNU extended its lead to 7-1 in the fourth … Tana Whited (SO/Lebanon, TN) singled followed by Caitlyn Hudgins (JR/Springfield, TN) single … Whited scored off an error … Makray Odom tripled driving in Kat Burbrink and Dallas Richards (JR/Columbia, TN) … Odom later scored off an error … Kat Burbrink hit a solo home-run to lead off the sixth inning to give the Trojans a 8-5 win … Makray Odom doubled and was driven in by Ali Birchfield's groundout … Bailey Alexander doubled and Megan Groves homered to put the Trojans up 11-5 … Kallie Sohm (SO/Kingston, TN) homered in the seventh and the Trojans scored twice more in the frame … TNU won two 14-6.
PLAYER STATS REPORT
GAME ONE
Megan Groves went 3-4 while Bailey Alexander and Mary Collins went 2-3 … Savannah Carr (JR/Springfield, TN) started and got her 10th win of the season throwing four innings with two strikeouts.
GAME TWO
Makray Odom went 4-5 while Danielle Horton and Bailey Alexander went 2-5 … Morgan Powell (JR/Mt. Juliet, TN) started and threw three and two thirds innings with three strikeouts … Taylor Roberts (FR/Jasper, TN) threw three and one third innings of relief … Roberts struck out one batter.
WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE TROJANS
Trevecca remains on the road tomorrow when they face Great Midwest conference opponent University of Findlay (16-15, 6-0 G-MAC) for a pair of games on Saturday, April 7 at 12 p.m. TNU and Ohio Valley have never met before in school history.
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