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SB Recap 4-11
8
Winner Evangel (MO) EVANGEL 34-7
0
Bethany (KS) BETHANY 13-21
Winner
Evangel (MO) EVANGEL
34-7
8
Final
0
Bethany (KS) BETHANY
13-21
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Evangel (MO) EVANGEL 2 2 0 2 2 8 8 0
Bethany (KS) BETHANY 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1

W: Meierer, Maddy (18-3) L: MacKenzie Yoder (1-2)

7
Evangel (MO) EVANGEL 34-8
8
Winner Bethany (KS) BETHANY 14-21
Evangel (MO) EVANGEL
34-8
7
Final
8
Bethany (KS) BETHANY
14-21
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Evangel (MO) EVANGEL 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 7 7 2
Bethany (KS) BETHANY 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 2 8 6 1

W: Dylann Baker (7-6) L: Bentley, Madi (13-5)

Game Recap: Softball | | Issac Granado

Valor Softball Earns Road Split with Bethany on Saturday

The Basics

Game 1: #13 Evangel 8, Bethany 0 (5 inn.) | Box Score

Game 2: #13 Evangel 7, Bethany 8 (8 inn.) | Box Score

Record: Evangel (34-8, 16-4), Bethany (14-21, 8-10)

Location: Lindsborg, Kan. (Swedes Softball Field)

LINDSBORG, Kan. – Valor Softball hit the road on Saturday (Apr. 11) afternoon, taking on the Bethany College Swedes for a KCAC doubleheader in Kansas.

Evangel dominated game one on Saturday, taking a run-rule victory, 8-0. In game two, Evangel would take an early lead, but Bethany used late scoring to force extras and walk-off Evangel, 8-7, in eight innings.

NOTABLE

  • Maddy Meierer earned the win in game one, striking out 10 batters and allowing just two hits in the five inning run-rule victory.

  • Eight different Evangel athletes recorded hits for the Valor on Saturday, with Camryn Casey leading EU with four.

HOW IT HAPPENED

  • Evangel got on the board early in game one, as Kenna Mayfield singled, stole second, and scored on a Naomi Perkins double. Perkins would come around to score on a Audrey Carlton sacrifice fly to make it a 2-0 Evangel lead.

  • In the top of the second, Camryn Casey hit a lead-off home run, followed by a Karli Facklam double, and wild pitch to score the shortstop, making it a 4-0 EU lead.

  • After a scoreless third inning, Evangel plated a pair of runs in the top of the fourth inning, as Casey singled and Danielle Cutbirth worked a walk. A sacrifice fly from Mayfield scored Casey, while a Perkins double scored Cutbirth to give EU a 6-0 lead.

  • Lauren Dill was hit by a pitch and Carlton worked a walk, both scoring on a single from Kaylee Dolores to take a 8-0 lead. Maddy Meierer and Evangel's defense were able to shut down the Swedes in the fifth, taking the run-rule win in game one.

  • In game two, Mayfield worked a walk and stole second, followed by a Dill walk and Natalie Morgan single to score both runners, giving EU a 2-0 lead.

  • In the top of the second, Casey ripped a double to left center field, scoring on a Cutbirth sacrifice fly to make it a 3-0 ballgame. Mayfield worked another walk, stealing second again and scoring on a Perkins single to give EU a 4-0 lead.

  • Bethany responded by plating three in the bottom of the second, drawing within a run of Evangel's lead, 4-3.

  • Morgan doubled in the third inning, scoring on an error to extend EU's lead to 5-3.

  • In the top of the seventh, Hayleigh Shubert doubled and Cutbirth entered to run, as Cutbirth scored on a Perkins sacrifice fly, 6-3.

  • Bethany kept the game alive by scoring three runs in the bottom of the seventh, tying the game at 6-6.

  • In the top of the eighth, Dill entered as the runner on second due to the ITB, coming around to score on a sacrifice bunt from Carlton and a sacrifice fly by Casey, 7-6.

  • In the bottom of the eighth, the Swedes hit a walk-off two run home run to defeat Evangel, 8-7.

UP NEXT

Evangel Softball returns home on Wednesday (Apr. 15) afternoon, taking on the Avila Eagles in a doubleheader matchup beginning at 2:00 p.m., in Springfield.

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