Findlay Stumbles on Day 2 of Lewis Invitational

Rosemont, Ill. – The University of Findlay softball team fell back to .500 on the second day of their annual trip to Rosemont, Illinois for the Lewis University Dome Invitational. The Oilers lost the opener to Ferris State by a score of 4-2 and dropped the evening contest by run-rule, 15-6 at the hands of Saginaw Valley State. The losses drop the Oilers to 2-2 on the young season with just a pair of games remaining in the dome.

Game 1 Box Score (vs Ferris State)

Ferris State scored in the bottom of the first to take a 2-0 lead on the Oilers, the third consecutive game that Findlay had fallen behind in the early innings.

Like they had done in the previous two games, Findlay answered. In the fourth inning, senior Gloria Corona and freshman Emma Bode reached base on hits, for Bode it was a double, her third double of the trip. Both players would come around to score on a base hit by junior Lyndsey Seamon, tying the game at 2-2.

The fifth inning saw no base runners as both teams went 1-2-3 in their respective halves of the frame.

Ferris St. later took the lead in the bottom of the sixth when they scored a pair of runs to take a 4-2 lead.

Findlay went down in order in the seventh to end the game.

Junior Carley Brandon took the loss for Findlay as she threw six innings and allowed four runs on three hits. She walked four and struck out five in the game.

Seamon had the lone RBIs for Findlay and finished the game with one hit. Corona, Bode, junior Caroline Turner, and senior Dylan Wiley had the other hits for the Oilers.

Game 2 Box Score (vs Saginaw Valley State)

After a morning game, the Oilers did not play again until 3:30 pm, a matchup with Saginaw Valley State. The Cardinals wasted no time taking control of the contest as they plated four runs in the top of the first to blow the game open early. Another pair of runs in the third made the score 6-0 just two and a half innings into the game.

The Oilers did not go quietly as they would plate five runs in the bottom of the third to pull within a run. Those five runs game on four hits and a pair of Cardinals errors in the inning. Seamon, Bode, and junior Alyssa Laisure all recorded RBIs in the frame.

 However, the next half inning, SVSU matched the Oilers output, scoring five runs of their own to regain control. After a single run by Findlay in the fourth, four more runs by the Cardinals in the sixth brought the run-rule into effect as the game ended with the Oilers down by nine.

Sophomore Molly Pfiffner took the loss in the circle to fall to 0-1 on the year. She tossed three innings and allowed ten runs, five earned, on seven hits. She walked three and struck out four.

Junior Madelyn Turner as the lone player for Findlay to record multiple hits in the game while Corona had a hit, a walk, and two runs scored.

Findlay will wrap up their trip to Illinois with games against Northwood and Lewis tomorrow, Feb. 21.