Oakland City University Athletics recently issued the following announcement.
Senior Day Split for the Mighty Oaks
Oakland City University softball team opened their weekend with a home doubleheader on Saturday facing conference opponent, the Pioneers of Point Park University. But pregame looked a little different than usual game days, as it was Senior Day.
The Lady Oaks have two seniors graduating this year, Samantha Johnson and Kenzie Tooley. Both of these seniors are pitchers, who have pitched lots of innings to help the Oaks.
In the opener, OCU got hot in the first inning. Kirsten Greenberg started it off with a double off the center field wall and brought up Jessi Goforth to the plate who doubled to right field scoring Greenberg. McKendree Ward singled to left field to advance Goforth to third. Emily Fitzwater walked and loaded the bases for Megan Ghrist. Ghrist hit a grand slam to center field, clearing the bases. And just when the Pioneers thought they were going to settle in, Gabi Gilpin stepped to the plate and hit a solo homerun.
In the second inning, the Oaks kept it rolling, adding six more runs to their total with a single from Greenberg, Goforth, a three-run homerun from Ward, and another homerun from Gilpin, this one being a three run shot.
The Pioneers added two runs in the top of the fourth but could not find the holes in the OCU defense.
Senior, Kenzie Tooley earned the win for the first game pitching five innings, only allowing seven hits with zero walks.
The hitting onslaught was well spread throughout the Oaks with Greenberg going 2-3, Goforth 2-3 with one RBI, Ward 2-3 with three RBIs, Ghrist 2-2 with four RBIs, and Gilpin going 2-2 with four RBIs.
The second game looked a little different, as the hitting did not come as easy for Oakland City. OCU did score in the bottom of the first after Kirsten Greenberg singled and McKendree Ward doubled down the left field line. Emily Fitzwater had a sacrifice fly, scoring Greenberg. Ward ended up scoring on a wild pitch, leaving it 2-0 the end the first inning.
The top of the second the Pioneers tallied four runs off of some base hits along with throwing errors to score some unearned runs. Point Park ended up scoring another six runs throughout some innings, while Oakland City matched their run total in the bottom of the fifth, 7-7.
The game went into one extra inning, where the Pioneers scored three to win the game.
Gilpin went 2-4, Abbi Jaquess went 3-4 with two RBIs, Fitzwater went 1-2 with 2 RBIs and a walk, Ward went 3-4 with two doubles, and Ghrist had three walks.
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