Oberlin College Athletics

Greencastle, IN - The Oberlin College softball team lost 3-1 and 9-1 in five innings at DePauw University on Saturday afternoon.

Hailey Alspach continues to pitch with pride and passion but unfortunately hasn't had much to show for it with all three Tiger runs being unearned in the lid-lifer. The sophomore from Escondido, California, allowed just four hits and one walk while racking up six strikeouts. Aslpach and her Tiger counterpart Riley Depa were locked in a scoreless pitcher's dual through the front three innings. 

Loren led off the Oberlin fourth with a single up the middle and pinch runner Gina Lombard would come in to score on Samantha Pinedo's single back up the box to give the Yeowomen a 1-0 advantage. 

Unfortunately, the Tigers answered back in the home-half of the fourth, posting all three of their runs in the frame on just one hit. After an error to start the inning, Katie Mathies poked an RBI triple to tie the game. A walk, run-scoring fielder's choice, and RBI groundout later the Yeowomen found themselves down by two. 

After getting a base runner in each of the fifth and sixth innings, Oberlin threatened in the seventh but would ultimately leave three runners on base. Singles by Alaina Di Dio, Mia Brito, and Jess Friedman loaded bases with just one out but Alex Romero-Salas would induce a strikeout and flyout to end the game and secure her first save of the season. 

Oberlin out-hit DePauw 6-4 in both games of the doubleheader. 

The Tigers posted a single tally on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the first inning in game two, but it would unravel for the Yeowomen in the second as the Tigers erupted for seven runs in the inning on three hits, three errors, three walks, and a hit batter. 

Oberlin's lone run of the game came in the third as Cater drove an RBI single into right field that scored rookie Roxie Freifeld after she doubled earlier in the inning.

A squeeze bunt in the bottom of the third got the differential up to eight, where it remained after Oberlin's at-bat in the fifth to invoke the mercy rule.

Wren Norris, Brito, Di Dio, and Haley Carlson joined Carter and Frifeld with those with hits in the game. 

The Yeowomen go right back to work tomorrow afternoon with another NCAC doubleheader at Kenyon College. First pitch of game one is set for 1 p.m.