Ashland University's softball team was one half-inning away from a doubleheader sweep on Monday (March 25) at Deb Miller Field at the Archer Ballpark Complex, ending the day with a 6-2 win in Game 2 following a 2-1 loss in the opener.
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The Eagles are 11-14 overall and 5-3 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, thanks to five wins in their last six games, and the Yellow Jackets are 11-18, 4-2.
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Ashland is 5-3 at its new home this season, and 18-8 there overall. In the previous two seasons, the Eagles were 8-20 in home games.
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After 5½ scoreless innings to start Game 1, freshman left fielder
Delaney Maynard snuck an opposite-field home run to left field for the contest's first run. Cedarville, however, took the lead in the top of the seventh with two unearned runs.
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In the nightcap, Ashland struck first in the bottom of the second, scoring twice thanks in large part to a pair of Yellow Jacket errors. Then, in the bottom of the third, a run-scoring single by junior designated player
Cassidy Shaffer put AU ahead 3-0.
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Cedarville got on the board in Game 2 with a run in the top of the fourth, but with two outs in the bottom of the frame, Maynard delivered an RBI single, then first baseman
Lily Rockwell a two-run double, to move the Eagle lead to 6-1.
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POST-GAME NUGGETS
- In Game 1, sophomore pitcher Delaney Lis (3-5) took the tough-luck loss, authoring a complete-game seven-hitter, allowing two unearned runs and a walk and striking out one.
- Maynard went 2-for-3 with the home run.
- Freshman Madison Milligan (3-2) turned in her first collegiate complete game in Game 2, twirling a six-hitter and allowing two runs and a walk.
- Sophomore second baseman Danielle Robbins stole three bases and went 2-for-4 at the plate while scoring two runs, Shaffer was 2-for-2 with an RBI and two runs scored, and Rockwell finished 2-for-3 with two RBIs, a double and a run scored.
UP NEXT
Friday (March 29) at 3:30 p.m. in a Great Midwest twinbill at Ursuline.
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