Softball team loses two home games to Saint Mary’s, 12-0 and 12-1

OLIVET, Mich. – The Olivet College softball team dropped both games of a doubleheader to Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) foe Saint Mary's (Ind.) College, 12-0 and 12-1, today at the Cutler Athletic Complex.

Final Scores: Saint Mary's 12, Olivet 0; Saint Mary's 12, Olivet 1
Location: Cutler Athletic Complex; Olivet, Michigan
Records: Olivet 2-11 overall, 0-4 MIAA; Saint Mary's 6-7 overall, 2-2 MIAA

• In the top of the first, the first nine Saint Mary's batters reached base safely and seven of them came around to score.
• The Belles added one more run in the second, three runs in the fourth and capped their scoring with a run in the fifth to invoke the eight-run mercy rule ending.

• Olivet finished the game with six hits.
• Sophomores Brielle Broderick and Katie Lenz both went 2-for-3.
• Freshman Meredith Morell and sophomore Emily Keeler also had a base hit.
• Freshman Malaya Shireman was charged with the pitching loss, as she allowed all the first inning runs.
• Keeler threw five innings in relief and gave up five runs (three earned) on seven hits. She struck out three.

• The Belles recorded 13 hits, with 10 singles and three doubles.
• McKenna Myers, Mandi Hettinger and Alexis Rauch each tallied two hits.
• Rauch drove in a team-best three runs.
• Myers and Shelby Dellasandro collected two RBI apiece.
• Hettinger scored a team-high three runs.
• Hettinger picked-up the pitching win, as she scattered four hits over the first three innings.
• Grace Renschen tossed the final two innings.

• The second game started like the first game, as the Belles sent nine batters to the plate and scored five runs in the first inning.
• Olivet used a two-out rally to score its lone run in the third inning. Morell and Broderick hit back-to-back singles before Lenz ripped a single to center field to score Morell.
• In the bottom of fourth inning, Saint Mary's pushed across seven runs to make the score 12-1.

• Olivet registered five hits, including two for Lenz.
• Broderick was on base twice, with a single and a walk.
• The other two hits were by Morell and senior Amber Trudeau.
• In the circle, Lenz suffered the loss after yielding 12 runs (three earned) on nine hits over three and two-thirds innings.
• Shireman recorded the final out.

• The Belles notched 10 hits, with three doubles, one home run and six singles.
• Rauch was 2-for-4 with a grand slam home run and two runs scored.
• Also recording two hits were Hettinger, McKenna Shoupe and Libby Bierbaum.
• Bierbaum hit two doubles and drove in three runs.
• Hettinger's and Shoupe's hits were singles.
• Bierbaum was the winning pitcher. She allowed five hits, while striking out six over the five innings.

• The Comets travel to Hope College tomorrow for a rescheduled doubleheader. First pitch from game on is slated for 3 p.m.