UPLAND, Ind. - Indiana Wesleyan Softball matched up with Taylor University on Saturday afternoon in a tripleheader. Game 1 was a continuation of a suspended game that took place originally on March 26th. The game was suspended with IWU leading 7-2 and finished with a score of 10-2. The second game of the day was the first game of the regularly scheduled doubleheader at Taylor with the Wildcats winning 8-4. Game 3 also saw IWU score 8 runs in a victory.
 
The Wildcats picked up where they left off with a run in the bottom of the 4th, the first inning of today, to make it 8-2. They would finish it off an inning later with 2 more runs to end the game via run rule.

The second game of the day started with two straight 2 run innings for Indiana Wesleyan. Later in the 5th inning, IWU produced 4 runs to take an 8-0 lead with a chance at another run rule win. However, the Trojans battled back to score 3 of their own and force the game to continue. The score remained the same until Taylor scored another in the bottom of the 7th but the Wildcats won 8-4.

In the final game of the day, IWU spread out the offense over the course of the ballgame. They led 1-0 after the 1st inning then added a run in the 3rd. TU matched with a run in the bottom of the 3rd but that was the only run they would muster for the rest of the day. The Wildcats poured in 4 runs to extend the lead to 6-1 then added 2 more in the 6th to push it to 8-1 which would end up being the final score.  



THE ESSENTIALS

• Location: Upland, Indiana / Gudakunst Field
• Records: IWU 29-9 (22-4) I TU 19-19 (14-12)
• Game One Score: IWU def. TU 10-2 (5 innings/ resumed from March 26)
• Game Two Score: IWU def. TU 8-4
• Game Three Score: IWU def. TU 8-1

 


GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS

• Starting the game up 7-2, IWU added another run in the bottom of the 4th when Leah May and Courtney Thomas completed a double steal with Thomas making it home safely.
• In the 5th, Morgan Yeater doubled to score Danica Fuller and was brought home by Thomas to end the ballgame. 

GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS

• Brylee Bilger got the scoring started with a SAC bunt that scored Whitney Waddell in the top of the 1st. Leah May then drove in Maddie Martin to give IWU the 2-0 lead.
• The 2nd inning saw 2 more runs for IWU as Martin singled to bring in Danica Fuller and Bilger hit her second sacrifice hit in as many innings that scored Morgan Yeater.
• After two scoreless innings, the Wildcats picked up 4 runs in the 5th inning. Sara Ruble got the first RBI with a single that scored May. Then Fuller doubled to score Madisyn Tharpe and was brought home by a Yeater SAC fly. The final run for the Cats came courtesy of a Martin single to center field that drove in Waddell.
• Taylor would score 3 runs in the 5th and another in the 7th but couldn't complete the comeback.

GAME 3 HIGHLIGHTS

• Maddie Martin continued her momentum into the next game with a double in the first inning to score Whitney Waddell.
• IWU picked up another run in the top of the 3rd when Waddell singled to bring home Danica Fuller.
• The Trojans matched that run with their own in the bottom of the 3rd to make the score 2-1.
• But the rest of the game was all Indiana Wesleyan. Fuller earned an RBI in the 4th with a bases loaded single which was followed by a Waddell SAC fly. Morgan Yeater finished the inning's scoring with a double into left field that brought home both Sara Ruble and Fuller. 
• Fuller and Yeater stayed red hot in the 6th inning, both adding an RBI to their total and pushing the lead up to 8-1.

KEY WILDCATS

• Avery Toole
  • 2 wins
  • 8 Strikeouts combined
• Danica Fuller
  • 4-6 combined
  • 6 runs
  • 3 RBI
  • Has scored a run in 5 straight games
• Morgan Yeater
  • 4-7 combined 
  • 5 RBI
  • 2 doubles
• Maddie Martin
  • 3-6 combined
  • 3 RBI

NEXT TIME OUT

• The Wildcats travel to Goshen on Tuesday, April 14th for a doubleheader starting at 3:00 PM.

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