OBERLIN, Ohio -- Freshmen pitchers Samantha Dostall (Oberlin/Firelands) and Darcy Daniel (Sandusky/Perkins) pitched back-to-back shutouts as the Baldwin Wallace University softball team swept a rescheduled non-conference doubleheader at Oberlin College on the Mary Culhane Field. The games were originally scheduled for March 18 but were postponed until today.
BW (12-11), who has won seven of its last eight games and eight of the last 11, recorded back-to-back shutouts for the first time this season and posted its third overall shutout with victories of 2-0 and 1-0 in eight innings. The Yellow Jackets have now played three extra inning games, which were all played under international tiebreaker rules, and now have a record of 1-2 in those extra inning affairs.
Oberlin (4-14) has lost nine of its last 10 games and has been shutout five times in that span.
In game one, BW offense scored five runs on 10 hits as it plated a run in the first and second and got three in the seventh. Junior first baseman Mackenzie Brua (Avon) for the second time in three games led off the game with a homerun and knocked in two of three Yellow Jacket runs in the seventh with the two-RBI double. The Yeowomen were held scoreless and only produced three hits.
Brua led the BW offensive attack with a career-high tying three hits as she went 3-for-4 with her fourth career homerun, a double, two runs scored and a career-best tying three runs batted in (RBI). Dostall had a career-best two hits, including her first career double as she went 2-for-3 with a run scored.
On the mound, Dostall recorded her first career shutout as she pitched her second career complete game. She did not allow a run on a career-high tying three hits allowed with two strikeouts and one walk. Dostall improved to 3-2 overall.
In game two, the Yellow Jackets scored one run on six hits as it plated its only run in the eighth inning on the sacrifice fly from Brua.
Junior Alison Fiorucci (Seven Hills/Holy Name) led the BW offense as accounted for two of the BW six hits as she went 2-for-3 with three stolen bases. Four other Yellow Jackets had a base knock, including Daniel who had her second career hit.
On the mound, Daniel recorded her first career win and shutout as she pitched a career-best eight innings and did not allow a run on four hits. She had two strikeouts and one walk as she improved to 1-2 overall.
The Yellow Jackets are back in action tomorrow (Monday, April 7) when they travel to Bethany, West Virginia to play the Bisons of Bethany College in a non-conference doubleheader at 3:30 p.m. The first homes games to be played at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds Field are scheduled for Wednesday, April 9 when BW hosts OAC and Cleveland cross-town rival John Carroll University at 3 p.m.
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Photo Courtesy of Lauri Brua
