MARION, Ind. – The No. 7 Indiana Wesleyan softball team overcame a 2-0 deficit behind the grand slam from Hannah Miller for a 5-2 victory over Mount Vernon Nazarene Wednesday afternoon in the Crossroads League Tournament. 


GAME VITALS

• IWU 5, MVNU 2
• RECORDS: IWU 42-6; MVNU 27-11

INSIDE THE BOX 

• IWU trailed 2-0 after the visitors accounted for a pair of runs in the third inning.
• The Wildcats were shut down until a five-run fifth inning. 
• With two down and nobody on base, Jennah Yost beat out a hit to the shortstop and hustled to third on a double by Chloe Tragresser. 
• After a walk to Miranda Wehrle, Hannah Miller became the hero by launching a grand slam over the right field fence to make it 4-2. 
• Rebecca Schrad singled and swiped second. Two batters later, Aubrie Eckert doubled her home for a three-run advantage.
• Alyssa Wagner went back to the circle in the sixth and held the visitors off the scoreboard. Danielle Munn came in at the top of the seventh and picked up the save. 
• Wagner worked six innings and had four strikeouts. She gave up two runs on five hits to pick up the win. Munn allowed one hit en route to earning the save.
• Schrad, Tragresser and Yost had two hits apiece while Bell, Eckert and Miller each accounted for one base knock. Miller led the way with four RBI.
• Five of the team's nine hits came in the fifth inning.

NEXT TIME OUT

• The Wildcats take the field again tomorrow at 3 p.m. IWU takes on Marian at Taylor University.  

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