Softball Loses Two At Home To Chargers On Senior Day

On its Senior Day and National Fastpitch Coaches Association Day, Ashland University's softball team lost 10-1 and 3-2 at Brookside Park to Hillsdale on Saturday (April 23) afternoon.
 
The Eagles are 8-19 overall and 2-12 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, and the Chargers are 26-17, 14-1.
 
WHAT HAPPENED

• Hillsdale scored three runs in the top of the second inning to start Game 1, then added two more in the third for a 5-0 advantage. The Chargers scored three more runs in the fourth, then junior designated player Hailey Struckman launched a solo home run to begin the bottom of the fourth.
• The Chargers achieved the final margin of victory in the top of the fifth, when Hillsdale brought two runs home.
• Ashland broke the scoreless tie in Game 2, plating a pair of runs in the bottom of the third. Struckman walked with the bases loaded, then junior left fielder Lauren McMillin added an RBI groundout.
• Hillsdale tied the game at 2 with a pair of unearned runs in the top of the fifth, then took the lead at 3-2 with a run in the top of the sixth – and that run was the eventual game-winning tally.
• Senior Hannah Fricke (1-4) took the tough-luck loss, going the distance on a six-hitter. Fricke allowed three runs (one earned) and three walks and struck out three. In her last 14 1/3 innings, Fricke has allowed just two earned runs.
• In addition to Fricke, Ashland's seniors honored on Saturday were third baseman Alexis Lavdis, center fielder Jamie Rutherford and catcher Gabie Krueger.

 
UP NEXT
Ashland is back at Brookside Park on Tuesday (April 26) at 2 p.m. for another league doubleheader against Cedarville (21-16, 6-10).