BOX SCORE - SUNY POTSDAM
BOX SCORE - MISERICORDIA
CLERMONT, Fla. – The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology softball team plated 21 runs in two games en route to victories over SUNY Potsdam (N.Y.) 11-2 and Misericordia (10-4) on Thursday, March 5.
Rose-Hulman needed only five innings to defeat the Bears in game one. After a scoreless first inning for both teams, the Engineers plated five runs in the second. Senior Carly Heibel led off the inning with a triple and scored when freshman Michelle Korf doubles to right field. After two errors from SUNY Potsdam, junior Jett Bender singled up the middle scoring another Engineer run.
After scoring a single run in the top half of the third inning, the Rose-Hulman offense heated up once again in the fourth. Freshmen Jessica Will, Gabbi Markison, and Jenny Miller along with junior Marissa Stout all tallied hits in the fourth inning. The Engineers tacked on two more runs in the top of the fifth to close the game.
Stout went 3-4 from the batter's box in the game with two runs batted in (RBI). Miller, Bender, and Heibel notched two hits each while Korf drove in two runs on her one hit. In total, Rose-Hulman tallied 13 hits as a team.
Junior Taylor Lockhart notched her third victory of the season allowing two earned runs on two hits in five innings of work.
In the victory over Misericordia (4-6), Heibel put Rose-Hulman on top in the first inning with a two-RBI double to left center field. Neither team would score in the second inning.
Markison and Stout got things started for the Engineers in the top of the third with singles down the right field line. After Miller singled to load the bases, Rose-Hulman would score runs on groundouts by Heibel and Korf and a wild pitch. In the fourth inning, the Engineers tallied five runs on five hits and one Misericordia error.
Trailing 10-0, Misericordia cut the Rose-Hulman lead scoring three runs on three hits and one error in the bottom of the fourth.
The Cougars threatened in both the fifth and six innings, but two strikeouts from Stout in the fifth and a double play turned by Will and freshman Maria Schaefer in the sixth kept Misericordia from further cutting into the 10-3 Rose-Hulman lead.
Offensively, Stout turned in her second 3-4 performance of the day. The Terre Haute native also earned her third victory of the year on the mound, pitching the final 3.1 innings in relief of Miller.
Heibel and Korf batted in seven of Rose-Hulman's 10 runs with Heibel notching four RBI on one hit and Korf tallying three RBI on one hit.
As a team, the Engineers had 10 hits, drew four walks, and left only four runners on base.
Rose-Hulman (6-2) is on a four-game winning streak for the first time since the 2008 season. The Engineers play their final two games of the 2015 Spring Trip tomorrow (Friday), March 6. Rose-Hulman is scheduled to play Mount Union (Ohio) at 9 a.m. and St. Mary's (Minn.) at 11 a.m.
