WINTER PARK, Fla. (March 2, 2024) – The Rollins softball team swept both ends of a doubleheader to complete a three-game series sweep of visiting No. 15 Nova Southeastern on Saturday. The Tars took game one of the doubleheader, 6-5 in nine innings, before holding on for a 5-4 win in the finale. Rollins improves to 12-5, 5-4 in SSC play, while the Sharks drop to 12-5, 6-3 in conference games.
Game 1 – Rollins 6, No. 15 NSU 5 (9 inn.)
Taylor Waters went 2-for-3 with a walk, a home run, and two runs scored, while
Ashley Worrell was 2-for-3 with an RBI.
Emily MacMullen started, allowing two runs on three hits in three innings with four strikeouts, while
Keivana Durand (3-1) picked up the win in relief, surrendering one run on three hits in four innings, striking out four.
HOW IT HAPPENED:
First Inning
- Nova Southeastern used two hits and a hit batter to plate a pair in the first inning, taking an early 2-0 lead.
Second Inning
- Rollins answered back in the second as Hayley Lazo led off with a base hit, took second on a wild pitch, stole third, and scored on a throwing error by the catcher to cut the lead to 2-1.
Fifth Inning
- After NSU scored twice in the top half to take a 4-1 lead, the Tars rallied in the fifth, sending eight batters to the plate and scoring four times.
- Rachel Bauer led off with a pinch-hit walk and Grace Germer followed with an infield single.
- Brie Michelli then laced a double off the first baseman's glove, scoring Bauer.
- After Waters was hit by a pitch, Worrell and Sarah Young delivered back-to-back sacrifice flies, tying the game at 4-4.
- Lazo then drew a two-out walk, followed by an RBI single off the bat of Taylor Hartman to put the Tars ahead, 5-4.
Sixth Inning
- The Sharks scratched across a run in the sixth to tie the game once again, this time at 5-5, where the score would remain until the ninth inning.
Ninth Inning
- After the Tars left the bases loaded in the eighth, Waters wasted no time in the ninth inning as she lifted the first pitch of the inning over the left field fence for a walk-off solo home run.
Game 2 – Rollins 5, No. 15 NSU 4
In game two, Germer was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and a stolen base, while Young was 1-for-2 with a walk, a run scored, and an RBI. Worrell (6-2) pitched a complete game, allowing four runs (two earned) on seven hits, striking out four and walking none.
HOW IT HAPPENED:
First Inning
- The Sharks took advantage of a pair of costly errors to score three runs, two unearned, to go up 3-0.
- Germer led off the home half with an infield single and Michelli drew a four-pitch walk.
- Two batters later, after both runners successfully executed a double steal, Worrell drove in Germer with a sacrifice fly.
- Young then drew a walk and Hartman was hit by a pitch, loading the bases with two outs.
- Kaeli Zahradnik lifted a fly ball to right-center where the NSU center fielder dropped it, allowing all three runners to score, pushing the Tars in front, 4-3.
Second Inning
- Rollins tacked on another run in the second on a two-out RBI single off the bat of Young scoring Germer.
Sixth Inning
- Nova Southeastern got a run back in the sixth thanks to a leadoff triple, trimming the deficit to a run at 5-4.
Seventh Inning
- The Sharks had two runners reach in the seventh, but Worrell was able to keep them off the scoreboard and secure the 5-4 victory.
UP NEXT:
The Tars will be back at home on Monday, March 4, for the first of five straight home non-conference doubleheaders over the course of the next 10 days, beginning with a doubleheader against Cedarville at 5 p.m.
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