Softball team ends season with two losses at Roosevelt

ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Olivet College softball team ended its season with two losses in a non-conference doubleheader against Roosevelt University this afternoon at The Ballpark at Rosemont in Rosemont, Illinois. The Lakers won the first game, 4-1, and then rallied to win the nightcap, 5-4, in nine innings.

Final Score: Roosevelt 4, Olivet 1; Roosevelt 5, Olivet 4 (9)
Location: The Ballpark at Rosemont; Rosemont, Ill.
Records: Roosevelt 16-31 overall, Olivet 19-17 overall

• The Lakers plated an unearned run in the first inning.
• The Comets got that run back in the top half of the second when freshman Dayoni Mahlich hit an RBI-double to score sophomore Paige Poulter.
• Olivet escaped a bases-loaded, nobody out jam in the fourth inning.
• The Comets had two base runners in the sixth inning.
• Roosevelt pushed across three runs in the home half of the sixth.
• Olivet brought the tying run to the plate in seventh inning before a fielder's choice out at third base ended the game.

• Olivet had seven hits.
• Junior Taylor Shellenberger was 2-for-3.
• In the circle, senior Andrea Rico was tagged with the loss. She gave up all four runs (two earned) on nine hits, with a walk and a strikeout.

• Aisley Njissang had three of the nine Roosevelt hits. One of the hits was a double.
• Caitlyn Santiago and Cam Wicker both went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
• Brinn Arwood earned the complete game, pitching win. She yielded an earned run on seven hits.

• Roosevelt pushed across an unearned run in the first inning.
• Olivet tied the game in the top half of the second inning. With the bases full, senior Danielle McCoy ripped a single into left field to plate Shellenberger.
• The Lakers grabbed the lead back with a run in the home half of the second.
• The Comets pushed across two runs in the fifth inning to take a 3-2 lead.
• Olivet extended its lead to 4-2 lead in the sixth inning when junior Jazmin Hildebrand had a pinch-hit single to score freshman Danielle Erickson.
• Roosevelt sent the game to extra innings by scoring one run in both the sixth and seventh innings.
• The Comets left the go-ahead run stranded in scoring position in the eighth inning.
• The Lakers were retired 1-2-3 in the bottom half of the eighth.
• Due to the international tiebreaker, senior Kinslea Blouin was placed on second to start the ninth inning. Roosevelt sent the Comets down in order a strikeout and two fly outs.
• The Lakers plated the winning run in the ninth inning on a one-out single.

• Olivet out-hit the Lakers, 8-6.
• Rico and Erickson each had two hits.
• Shellenberger tossed the entire game in the circle, allowing five runs (two earned) on six hits, with four strikeouts and four walks.

• Haley Huss recorded two hits and stole three bases
• Santiago and Kelly Farmer each drove in a run.
• Madison Lentz went the distance in the circle. She surrendered all four runs (two earned) on eight hits and four walks.