FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Indiana Tech softball team held its Senior Day on Sunday when the Warriors went up against the Lawrence Tech Blue Devils (Mich.) in a WHAC contest. The Warriors honored seniors Kennedi Sullivan, Bella Brock, and Alexis Galloway in between games one and two of the doubleheader. After losing game one 4-7, the Warriors bounced back to win game two 8-1.
Game one went back and forth before Lawrence Tech finally pulled away in the fifth inning. The Warriors got out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first after hit an RBI single to score Alyssa Fox. Lawrence Tech would knot the game up at one in the top of the second. Brock would then hit a solo homerun to straight away center in the bottom of the third to give Tech a 2-1 lead. The Blue Devils would go up 2-3 in the top of the fourth before the Warriors would tie it at three in the bottom half of the inning off an RBI single by Karra Leeger-Capraro, scoring Jordan Dippel. Lawrence Tech would score three runs in the top of the fifth to go up 3-6. Leeger-Capraro would homer to right field in the bottom of the sixth but that would be all for the Warriors as they fell in game one 4-7. Leeger-Capraro and Dippel led the Warriors with three hits each in game one, while Leeger-Capraro and Brock each had two RBIs for Tech. Savannah Bravo started the game for the Warriors, going 3.2 innings, giving up three runs and eight hits. Jayme Koning came in to relieve Bravo and threw 3.1 innings, four runs and seven hits. Koning picked up the loss in game one.
Game two was all the Orange and Black in the battle of the Tech's. After two scoreless innings, Leeger-Capraro would get the Warriors on the board with a sacrifice fly to get Fox across the plate. Sullivan would hit an RBI single two batters later, driving in Carlye Walter and giving the Warriors a 2-0 lead after three innings of play. Lawrence Tech would score their lone run of the game in the top of the fourth to cut the deficit to just one, but Indiana Tech would take control after that scoring the final six runs of the game. Sullivan would finish the game a perfect four-for-four at the plate with two RBIs, while Brock had two hits and two runs scored in the game. Leeger-Capraro, Brooke Hughes, Maire Trouba, and Dippel would finish with one RBI apiece. Walter picked up the win on the mound for the Warriors, her tenth of the season. She threw a one-hitter and pitched her tenth complete game of the season.
Sullivan, a senior from Lima, Ohio, went four-for-six overall on the day with two RBIs playing DP over the two games. Brock, a senior from San Diego, California, went four-for-seven overall on the day with a homerun, a double, two RBIS, three runs scored, and a walk. Playing shortstop for the Warriors, Brock had five putouts and three assists in the two games. Galloway, a senior from Okotoks, Alberta, Canada, did not bat but played well defensively for the Warriors in right field, recording two putouts and making a diving catch.
The Warriors now move to 14-4 in WHAC play and 34-8 overall on the season. Indiana Tech sits tied atop of the WHAC standings with Aquinas College (Mich.) with the two set to battle in their next contest on Tuesday, April 25th which will surely decide the regular season championship as both teams sit two games ahead of third place Concordia University (Mich.). Tech will travel to Grand Rapids, Michigan to take on Aquinas with everything on the line Tuesday afternoon with the doubleheader scheduled for 3 and 5 pm starts.
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