SCORE: GM 1 – IT 3, UNOH 4; GM 2 – IT 4, UNOH 5
RECORDS: Indiana Tech (11-12, 0-2 WHAC), Northwestern Ohio (13-7, 4-0 WHAC)
LOCATION: Lima, Ohio (Racer Field)
 
BRIEF: Playing their first game since returning from spring break, the Indiana Tech softball team opened up Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference play against Northwestern Ohio, meeting the Racers for the second time this season after defeating the WHAC foe 14-6 in six innings on Mar. 20. Unfortunately for the Warriors, the Racers got the better of them when it counted, taking both games of the twin-bill at Racer Field. Tech tallied 12 hits and held the lead in both games, but a walk-off and a pair of crooked innings did them in.
 
FLOW:
GAME 1
- Neither offense could score until the third when UNOH strung together back-to-back doubles to score two runs
- Tech answered in the fourth as Juliaclare Plezbert led off with a single and Hannah Foltz followed with a two-run home run to left center to tie the score
- Four batters later Katie Bird singled home Jenavie Rivas with a one out to take a 3-2 lead
- The score remained that way until the bottom of the seventh when the Racers strung together four consecutive hits to plate a pair of wins for the 4-3 win
 
GAME 2
- The Warriors scored first as Foltz and Cotton drew back-to-back walks to lead of the second and Rivas plated the former with an RBI single and an error allowed the latter to score
- A double, single and home run gave the Racers the lead in the fourth
- Three more hits in the fifth put the home team up 5-2
- Foltz and Cotton led off the sixth with back-to-back walks again and Plezbert drove a double to right center to score both and cut the deficit to one
- Unfortunately, the Warriors rally fell short in the one-run loss
 
HIGHLIGHTS:
GAME 1
- Plezbert, Foltz and Cotton each tallied two hits
- Plezbert, Foltz and Rivas each scored ones while Foltz had two RBIs and Bird had one
- Kilps (4-3) took the loss allowing four runs on 12 hits in six innings, striking out three with no walks
 
GAME 2
- Rivas collected a pair of hits and drove in a run
- Foltz and Cotton each drew a pair of walks and scored twice
- Plezbert went 1-for-3 with a pair of RBIS while Bird and Dembinski also scored had a hit for Tech
- Three of the Warriors five hits went for extra bases
- Maggie McCrory pitched well in relief, allowing just two hits with a strikeout in 1.2 innings
 
UP NEXT: The Warriors will host Aquinas (Mich.) for their home opener on Friday, Apr. 3 at Havenhurst Park in New Haven, Ind. The doubleheader is slated to begin at 4 p.m.
 
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