The Wayne State softball team dropped a pair of games Wednesday in the National Training Center Spring Games in Clermont, Fla.
No. 16 ranked Southern Indiana rallied late with four runs in the fifth and six in the bottom of the sixth to post a 12-6 win over Wayne State in the Wildcats’ second game of the day.
The Eagles took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning, but Wayne State came back with two in the second and four in the third for a 6-2 Wildcat lead. Monique Alyea and Blair Shanks delivered RBI singles for the Wildcats in the second inning. Big hits in the four-run Wildcat third inning came from Alyea and Jenna Stewart with RBI singles while Melanie Alyea and Rachel Shumaker each doubled.
Southern Indiana bats came alive in the final two innings as the Eagles produced six hits and scored four runs in the fifth and added six runs on five hits in the bottom of the sixth to snap a 6-6 tie and go on to the victory.
Southern Indiana had 16 hits in the game while the Wildcats had a season-high 12 hits in the losing effort. Monique Alyea finished 3-for-4 with a double and two RBI to lead the Wildcats. Shumaker was 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored while Alyssa Schropp was 2-for-3 with a pair of singles. Katelyn Wobken and Melanie Alyea both doubled. Nataliah Hopkins took the loss with a complete-game effort.
In Wednesday’s opener, Wilmington University of Delaware scored eight runs in the fourth inning to defeat Wayne State College 12-2.
Wayne State scored first when Wobken reached on an error and scored on Melanie Alyea’s single.
After Wilmington took a 4-1 lead in the third, the Wildcats scored their final run of the game in the top of the fourth when Abbie Hix doubled and scored after Shumaker reached on an error to make the score 4-2. Wilmington put the game out of reach with an eight-run fourth inning, using seven hits and three Wildcat errors.
Hix doubled for the game’s only extra base hit while Melanie Alyea and Emily Chandler each singled to account for Wayne State’s three-hit effrort. Allison Niemeier took the loss in the circle, with Hopkins coming on in relief.
Wayne State will close out play at the National Training Center Spring Games on Thursday in Florida playing Concordia College of New York at 8 a.m. and St. Joseph’s (Ind.) at 1 p.m.
