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Box Score 2 Mount Union's softball team split a pair Ohio Athletic Conference games with John Carroll winning the first game 6-3 then falling in game two 11-0 in five innings Tuesday at 23rd Street Field in Alliance.
The Purple Raiders are 9-7-1 overall and 3-3 in the OAC while John Carroll is 8-8 overall and 2-2 in the conference.
In the first inning of the opener, Mount Union took advantage of a pair of John Carroll errors and got two big triples – one that drove in a single run from Shelby Carmichael (Dalton/Dalton) and another that drove in three runs from Leigh Siedlak (Westerville/Westerville South) to jump out to a 6-0 lead.
John Carroll got on the board with a run in the third on a Morgan Robinson solo home run to make it 6-1.
The Blue Streaks rallied with a run in the sixth and had two runners on with the tying run in the on deck circle with no outs before Raider pitcher Michelle Stiltner (White Lake, Mich./Lakeland) struck out the side.
In the seventh, John Carroll rallied again this time pushing a run across and bringing the tying run to plate with two runners on before Stiltner forced a game ending ground-out.
Stiltner posted a season-high 10 strikeouts and improved to 7-2 on the season with the complete game victory.
Rachel Byrnes gave up just five hits in taking the loss pitching for the Blue Streaks.
Byrnes (6-4) got it back in game two as she got the complete game shutout victory allowing just four Mount Union hits and striking out six in John Carroll's 11-0 shutout win in five innings.
The Blue Streaks scored two runs in the first, two runs in the fourth and put the game out of reach with a seven-run fifth.
Megan Okuda (Gibsonia, Pa./Pine-Richland) had a double while Erin Simmons (Suffield/Field) took the loss pitching for the Raiders.
Mount Union is back on the field Wednesday at 3 pm in a non-conference matchup against Case Western Reserve at 23rd Street Field in Alliance.
Mount Union 6, John Carroll 3 (April 1, 2014 at Alliance, Ohio) (Game 1)
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Mount Union......... 130 000 0 - 6 5 1 (9-6-1, 3-2 OAC)
John Carroll........... 100 110 0 - 3 9 4 (7-8, 1-2 OAC)
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Pitchers: Mount Union - Michelle Stiltner . John Carroll- Byrnes.
Win-Michelle Stiltner(7-2) Loss-Byrnes(5-4)
HR MTU -
HR ONU - Robinson (2).
Weather: 66, Cloudy
John Carroll 11, Mount Union 0 (April 1, 2014 at Alliance, Ohio) (Game 2)
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Mount Union......... 000 00 - 0 4 0 (9-7-1, 3-3 OAC)
John Carroll........... 102 23 - 11 11 0 (8-8, 2-2 OAC)
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Pitchers: Mount Union - Erin Simmons and Andi Vansickle. John Carroll- Byrnes.
Win-Byrnes(6-4) Loss-Erin Simmons(2-4)
HR JCU - Tosti (1).
Weather: 72, Sunny
Vansickle faced 8 batters in the 5th
