Softball team ends season with two losses against Kalamazoo

OLIVET, Mich. – The Olivet College softball team closed out the 2022 season with two setbacks in a Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) twinbill against Kalamazoo College this afternoon at the Cutler Athletic Complex.

Final Scores: Kalamazoo 6, Olivet 3; Kalamazoo 12, Olivet 0
Location: Cutler Athletic Complex; Olivet, Michigan
Records: Olivet 2-23 overall, 0-16 MIAA; Kalamazoo 18-10 overall, 5-5 MIAA

• There was no scoring until the third inning when sophomore Brielle Broderick hit a solo home run for the Comets.
• The Hornets pushed across three runs in both the fifth and sixth innings to go ahead 6-1.
• Junior Jessica Barnes blasted a two-run homer in the home half of the sixth.

• Olivet registered seven hits in the game.
• Broderick was 2-for-3.
• Five other players – junior Erin Brady, sophomore Meredith Morell, Barnes, senior Amber Trudeau and sophomore Katie Lenz – each had one hit.
• Lenz was the losing pitcher after surrendering all six runs (five earned) on nine hits in the complete game performance.

• Kelsey Diekman, Amy McNutt and Lucy Hart recorded two hits apiece.
• One of McNutt's hits was three-run homer.
• Sam Moss earned the win in the circle, as she scattered seven hits and struck out five in the complete game effort.

• Kalamazoo pushed across two runs in the second inning before adding five more runs in the third and fourth innings for the run-rule victory.

• Trudeau walked in the second inning for Olivet's only base runner in the game.
• Freshman Malaya Shireman suffered the pitching loss after giving up all 12 runs (three earned) on 11 hits over the first three innings.
• Barnes tossed the final inning.

• Lizzy Rottenberk threw a no-hitter and faced the minimum 15 batters in the game. The only base runner in the game was followed up by a line-out double play to end the inning.
• Hart, Moss and McNutt tallied two hits apiece.
• McNutt scored three runs.
• Hart collected a team-best three RBI.