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Box Score 2 Mount Olive, N.C. – Millersville entered Wednesday's pair of games against Mount Olive with the best team ERA in the entire PSAC. Unfortunately for the Marauders, they ran into a Trojans team that led the Carolinas Conference in hitting. Mount Olive got the better of both matchups, beating the Marauders 14-1 and 5-0.
In the first game, the Trojans bats did all the talking in handing visiting Millersville its worst loss of the season and dropping the team's record to 12-3. After the Marauders took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second inning, Mount Olive put its Carolinas Conference-best hitting on display, getting to Bertoni for four runs (three unearned) in the second inning and another unearned run in the third to take a 5-1 lead.
In the second inning with the scored tied at one and the bases loaded Beth Overman smoked a Bertoni pitch to right center for a three-run double. Mount Olive scored its third-inning run on a wild pitch, but the Trojans weren't done at that point. They hung another nine runs on the board in the bottom of the fourth against the combination of Bertoni and
Amanda Wink. The big blast was a three-run homer off the bat of Christie Wright against Wink. Millersville could not get anything going in the top of the fifth with one last attempt to mount a rally.
In the game, the Marauders managed just four hits and one run. The four hits were tied for the second lowest total of the year, and the one run tied a season low in run production. The team's .211 batting average as a team was third-lowest this season.
In game two, Mount Olive again put the first run on the board in the bottom of the first inning when Overman crossed the plate. In allowing a first-inning tally freshman pitcher
Brianna Andraos, who was in the circle on the back end of the team's twinbill, allowed the first run of her collegiate career after a stretch of 25.1 consecutive scoreless frames to open the season. Andraos then danced out of trouble, wriggling out of a bases-loaded jam to end the first.
After the 1-0 score held for two more innings, Andraos fell victim to the big fly twice in the fourth. Jesse Crist led off the bottom half with a shot to left center. Four batters later, Jennifer Jones followed suit, hitting an Andraos offering over the wall in left field for a two-run homer, opening up a 4-0 Mount Olive lead. The Trojans tacked on one more run in the sixth and closed out the Marauders in the seventh, dropping Millersville to 12-4.
The Marauders managed just three hits in the second game, giving them a total of just seven for the set of games they played against the Trojans Wednesday. It was the lowest hit total over a two-game span for the team so far this season. The one combined run was also a low over any pair of Millersville games yet. The Marauders have a chance to put the losses behind them Friday afternoon when they head to Chowan. Start time for the first game of the doubleheader is 2 p.m. from Murfreesboro, N.C.