MARION, Ind. - The Maple Leafs softball team snatched a 5-2 win at #16 Indiana Wesleyan on Tuesday before dropping game two 4-0. It is the third straight Connect Goshen Day that the Goshen softball team has beaten Indiana Wesleyan while the Wildcats have been ranked.
Game One
The Maple Leafs jumped to a lead right out of the gate when
Shea VanScoter homered on the first pitch of the game. The teams traded runs for a while, as IWU scored on an RBI double in the bottom of the first but Goshen answered from
Kamille Badibanga's RBI single in the top of the third. The Wildcats homered in the bottom of the fourth to tie it again, 2-2.
The back-and-forth momentum ended there as Goshen took control for the final three innings. In the fifth, the Leafs scored two runs from RBI singles by
Alisyn Catenacci and
Mckenzie Richardson.
Olivia Gibson joined the party with an RBI single in the sixth to make it 5-2.
On the mound,
Esme Pico pitched all seven innings, allowing two earned runs and not walking any batters. It was the seventh time in 39 games that IWU had scored two runs or less this season. With the loss, Indiana Wesleyan starter Alyssa Wagner is 17-6.
All of Goshen's hitters from the first through the seventh spots in the lineup had at least one hit. VanScoter and Richardson had two, and VanScoter scored twice.
Bianca Diamond had two stolen bases and
Olivia Gibson was hit by a pitch twice. IWU had two errors and Goshen had none.
Game Two
The two teams combined for only six hits in the second game, but the Wildcats capitalized on the few opportunities they had and won in the walks category 5-1 and in hit-by-pitches 2-0.
Indiana Wesleyan scored twice in the second and one in the third. The score stayed at 3-0 for a while until they added a fourth in the bottom of the sixth. The runs came from an RBI groundout, an RBI single, a wild pitch and a walk with the bases loaded.
Goshen was shut out for the fifth time this season in 40 games.
Carissa Fillingame,
Mckenzie Richardson and
Ellie Van Heerde hit hits for Goshen, all singles. Van Heerde and Fillingame stole bases. Despite not scoring, Goshen only had two strikeouts.
Camryn Barrows threw six innings and had the loss. She now has an 8-4 record. She allowed four earned runs and had three wild pitches.
Goshen hosts Mount Vernon Nazarene on Friday, April 19, at 3:00 pm. The Goshen College Prevention Intervention Network (PIN) will have white ribbons available to men and teal ribbons and bracelets will be available to all gender identities to signify how we are all part of the solution to end interpersonal violence as a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The White Ribbon Campaign was started by men in Canada to signify their commitment to helping end men's violence against women.
