FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Indiana Tech softball team split with Huntington University Tuesday evening at Warrior Park, falling 15-13 in game one before winning 12-4 in six innings in the night cap.
How It Happened
- Game one was a 30-hit, 27 run barnburner of a game that lasted 2 hours and 14 minutes. Tech scored five runs in the bottom of the first to go up 5-2 as they took advantage of two HU errors and used three hits to go on top.
- A five-hit third from the Foresters put them back up 6-5 while they scored every inning after take and held a 15-7 lead going into the bottom of the seventh.
- Tech staged a furious comeback in the seventh as the first six batters reached base and the Warriors pushed six runs across the plate to make it a 15-13 game, but couldn't complete the comeback with three straight outs.
- The Warriors offense was churning on all cylinders in game two as they produced 14 hits, taking a 3-0 lead in the second inning and never looking back.
- Tech tacked on three runs in the fourth to make it a 7-1 game, and rallied back after allowing three HU runs in the fifth to make it a 7-4 contest by scoring four runs and recording just one out in the sixth to enact the mercy rule.
Inside the Box Score
- Jaden Romero picked up the win in relief in game two by allowing just the three runs in the fifth while Emma Kelley was 3-4 with three RBI's and two runs in the nightcap.
- Emma Chase, Payton Robinson and Alivia Doyle also had multi-hit efforts in game two.
- Kelly also drove in four runs in game one while Meaghan Berlin had three RBI's in the opener.
Tech (5-5) returns to action on Saturday as they host No. 15-ranked Indiana Wesleyan University in a doubleheader at Warrior Park beginning at 12 p.m.
