CORE: GM 1 – IT 3, MU 4; GM 2 – IT 0, MU 9 (5 inn.)
RECORDS: Indiana Tech (11-22, 0-12 WHAC), #RV Madonna (26-9-1, 10-2 WHAC)
LOCATION: New Haven, Ind. (Havenhurst Park)
 
BRIEF: The Indiana Tech softball team took Madonna, who is receiving votes in the NAIA Coaches' Poll, to extra innings in game one of their Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference doubleheader, but were done in by the long ball, dropping both contests. Jenevie Rivas pitched well in her first start of the season while Jessica Cotton delivered a game-tying home run to send game one to extra innings.
 
FLOW:
GAME 1
The Crusaders opened the scoring with three hits and a run in the first before adding a run in each of the fifth and sixth innings to take a 3-0 lead.
 
In the bottom of the sixth, Cotton drove a home run over the left field fence, a three-run shot, to tie the score.
 
After neither team scored in the seventh, the game went to extras and the Crusaders go a leadoff home run that proved to be the game winner.
 
GAME 2
Jamie Kilps led off the contest with a single, but a double play quickly changed the inning and the Crusaders captured all the momentum in the second with a two-out home run and the early lead.
 
Alli Watson collected a two-out single in the second, but didn't get any further and in the fifth Madonna used four hits to plate five runs and break the game open, 6-0.
 
The Crusaders added three more runs on five more hits in the fourth for the nine-run advantage.
 
Tech looked to cut into the lead in the fifth as Rivas led off with a single, but the offense stalled again in the loss.
 
BY THE NUMBERS:
GAME 1
The Warriors had two hits and a walk, but scored three runs led by Cotton's 2-for-2 effort with three RBIs and a run scored.
 
Rivas (0-1) took the loss in her first start of the season, despite pitching a complete game, allowing four runs, three earned, on 12 hits with six strikeouts and one walk in eight innings.
 
GAME 2
Tech tallied just three hits, one each from Kilps, Rivas and Watson
 
Katie Bird (0-3) got the loss, allowing six runs on seven hits with a pair of walks and two strikeouts in three innings
 
UP NEXT: The Warriors will celebrate senior day when they return to the field on Saturday, Apr. 18 against Michigan-Dearborn in New Haven, Ind. at Havenhurst Park. First pitch of the WHAC doubleheader is scheduled for 1 p.m.
 
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Softball Contact: Zachary Shore | 260.422.5561 x. 2492 | zrshore@indianatech.edu
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