LOUISVILLE, Ky. --- Wrapping up their home schedule on Sunday, the Bellarmine University softball team split with conference rival Southern Indiana, winning a marathon game one 1-0 before falling 8-0 in game two.
Bellarmine (27-15, 17-14 GLVC) remains in fourth place in the GLVC East, a spot that would earn the an at-large bid to the conference tournament. Southern Indiana (25-18, 14-13 GLVC) sits one spot below the Knights in fifth place.
In between games Bellarmine honored four departing seniors:
Cynthia Brown,
Amanda Meyer,
Kaitlyn Morley, and
Lauren Summe
Game 1: Bellarmine 1, Southern Indiana 0 (11 innings)
The senior Meyer pitched all 11 innings to outlast USI freshman pitcher Brooke Harmening to earn her 39th career victory, scattering nine hits while striking out a pair. Freshman
Hannah Daunhauer supplied the game-winning hit, singling up the middle to bring in Brown.
The play was set up by back-to-back-to-back singles by Brown,
Megan Murdoch, and
Madi Ratliff to load the basses with no outs in the 11th.
Harmening was dialed in to start the game, holding the Knights hitless through the games' first 5.0 innings, allowing only two walks. Freshman
Kayla Padgett would break up the no-hit bid, hitting a single down the right field line that stayed just fair.
In the top of the seventh, Meyer worked out of a jam, getting Stephanie Bittner to fly out to center with runs on second and third.
From the plate Padgett and Ratliff both finished with two hits apiece to lead the Bellarmine offense.
Box Score
Game 2: Southern Indiana 8, Bellarmine 0
USI scored a trio of runs in the second inning to take a 3-0 lead, then plated five in the top of the seventh, capped by a grand slam courtesy of pitcher Kelsey Jankowski, to take the finale easily. Bellarmine hurt their own cause by committing five errors that lead to seven of the eight runs scored by the Screaming Eagles.
Bellarmine registered five hits in game, getting to from the junior Murdoch, but the Knights only managed to get two runners in scoring position.
Alicia Miller (13-14) pitched 6.1 inning while giving up seven runs, but only one of the earned.
Box Score
The Knights will look to regroup this week, as they travel to Northern Kentucky on Wednesday for a midweek doubleheader.
