GROVE CITY, Pa. - The Bethany College softball team splits their fourth straight doubleheader, winning the first game and dropping the second to Presidents' Athletic Conference-leading Grove City Saturday.
GAME ONE: BETHANY 4, GROVE CITY 1
Fifth-year hurler Josie Wise was stellar in the circle and the top three hitters provided the offense as Bethany claimed the opening game of the doubleheader.
Wise (13-3) tossed her 11th career game of the season, allowing just an unearned run on five hits with eight strikeouts.
The Bison took the early lead, scoring on a wild pitch in the top of the first inning, and then doubled the lead on an RBI single by freshman Olivia Kidd. Grove City got a run back in the bottom of the third.
Graduate Morgan Huey had a clutch RBI single to provide an insurance run in the top of the seventh, and came around to score an additional run on an RBI single by Kidd.
Huey finished the game 3-for-4 with two runs scored, an RBI, and two stolen bases, while Kidd was 2-for-3 with two RBI and a stolen base. Graduate Destiny Goodnight was 2-for-4 with a run scored and two stolen bases to take the program's single-season lead in the stolen base category.
GAME TWO: GROVE CITY 12, BETHANY 10
Sophmore Emma Jackson, in her Bethany College debut, hit a pair of homeruns and drove in five runs in the high-scoring loss to the Wolverines.
Jackson's first longball capped a three-run inning with a two-run homerun to give Bethany the 3-2 lead in the third inning. Another two-run blast in the sixth came part of the Bison's four-run inning that pulled them to within two. Unfortunately, Grove City responded with two runs in its part of the sixth inning.
Those two runs came in handy for the Wolverines as graduate Destiny Goodnight drove in a pair of runs in the top of the seventh inning, and Bethany brought the tying run to the plate with less than two outs. Goodnight finished the game 4-for-5 with a run scored and two RBI.
Junior Brooke Markland was 3-for-4 with two doubles, two runs scored and two RBI.
Katelyn Ziems (5-2) allowed six runs, four earned on seven hits over three innings.
Bethany (21-6 overall, 7-4 PAC) returns to the diamond 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, hosting Allegheny in PAC action.
This article was written by Assistant Athletic Director for Communications, Jayson Ameer Rasheed. If you believe there are mistakes in information-- or have a separate thought relating to the event in the article -- please email ameer.rasheed@bethanywv.edu for any corrections/comments.
