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Softball

Split in Oklahoma caps winning Spring Break for second time in three years

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BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — Sandra Rodriguez put on a 5-hit performance across both games of the doubleheader and Emily Cummings pitched her way to her seventh win of the season Saturday as the Goshen College softball team split a twinbill at Oklahoma Wesleyan University, winning 7-3 and losing 5-0.

Cummings allowed 6 hits and 3 runs with 2 strikeouts in a complete-game effort in the circle while lashing a double at the plate in the opener; Rodriguez also had a double as GC seized the lead in the top of the first for the wire-to-wire win.

The Maple Leafs got on the board with one out in the first inning on Cummings' sacrifice fly to plate Edith Vega. Rodriguez's double and a Jessica Bachtell single made it 3-0 by the end of that half-inning. With two innings down, Cummings' double had run the lead to 5-0 and the Eagles (5-11) still didn't have a hit.

Oklahoma Wesleyan manufactured its first run of the day in the fifth on a single, a hit batter, a sacrifice and a fielder's choice before grounding into a double play with the bases loaded and the tying run at bat. Goshen got the run back on a Rianna Koteles sacrifice fly in the sixth and extended the lead when Stacey Landry was hit by a pitch in the seventh.

The Eagles got six hits from six players, with Ashley Stone being the only one to double. Starter Abbey Ely was chased in the second inning and Tahlia Salinas worked 5 1/3 innings of 2-run relief.

The second game was scoreless until the hosts plated 5 runs on 6 hits and an error in the fourth inning. Goshen had left a runner in scoring position in the third and would strand three more there after falling behind. Rodriguez and Cassandra Espinoza each had two hits, but this time it was Goshen's turn to get exclusively singles.

OKWU picked up 13 hits, including 3 from Jessica Greenwood and 2 apiece by Kaylee Clinton, Rachel Palmer and Alaina Fust. Clinton and Bailey Johnson both doubled and Clinton drove in three runs. Tahlor Stefek went the distance in the circle, striking out 8.

The Maple Leafs improve to 2-2 all-time on Leap Day; the 2012 team split a doubleheader with Michigan-Dearborn on Feb. 29, the only previous time that Goshen has played on that date.

In a less esoteric sense, however, the Maple Leafs also finished Spring Break with an 8-8 record, including a 7-5 mark on the team's weeklong sojourn to Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. It's the team's second winning Spring Break in three years, following a 6-5 record in 2018; for the second time since the Crossroads League schedule expanded in 2012, Goshen will enter league play with a .500 record overall.

Goshen is off next week before conference play begins with a home doubleheader against Marian on March 10.

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