Softball blanks Yellow Jackets to advance to OAC Tournament Championship Series
The two-seeded Muskingum softball team blanked three-seed Baldwin Wallace in the Final Four of the Ohio Athletic Conference Softball Tournament at Donna J. Newberry field on Thursday afternoon, 4-0. With the win, Muskingum advances to the OAC Championship Series and will host four-seed Ohio Northern.
Baldwin Wallace
22-16
0
Muskingum
28-12
4
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May 13, 2021
The two-seeded Muskingum softball team blanked three-seed Baldwin Wallace in the Final Four of the Ohio Athletic Conference Softball Tournament at Donna J. Newberry field on Thursday afternoon, 4-0. With the win, Muskingum advances to the OAC Championship Series and will host four-seed Ohio Northern.
Notable
- With the win, the Muskies will play in the Ohio Athletic Conference Championship Series on Saturday, May 15, and host four-seed Ohio Northern. Game time is set for 1:00 p.m. The last time the Muskies were in the Conference Championship was in 2014, when they beat Ohio Northern, 7-2. Fans can follow all the championship action live on fightingmuskies.com or the OAC TV app. The winner of the best-of-three series will receive the OAC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
The Basics
- Records: Muskingum (28-12), Baldwin Wallace (22-16)
- Location: Donna J. Newberry Field – New Concord, Ohio
- Attendance: 115
Inside the Numbers
- Junior Hannah Smith collected her 12th win of the season, shutting down the Yellow Jackets offense on five hits.
- Senior Karsyn Shaffer guided the Muskie offense with three hits and two RBIs.
- Junior Cristianna Boggs notched two hits, including an RBI double.
- Senior Bailey Waitkus added a hit and RBI.
- Freshman Alex Fankhauser finished the contest with three hits, including a double.
- Alex Kozich, Raegan Thompson, Bridie Bricker, Amanda Crisler, and Julia Gersey all had a hit for the Baldwin Wallace.
- Nikki Camarati was dealt the loss after pitching six innings and allowing four runs on 11 hits.
The Difference
- The Muskies plated their first run of the contest in the second inning off a Boggs RBI double to left-center, making it a 1-0 Muskie lead.
- The Muskies continued to plate two more runs in the second off a Shaffer single to center field making it, 3-0.
- The Muskies scored all three runs with two outs in the inning.
- The Yellow Jackets' best chance came in the fifth inning when they left the bases loaded.
- The Muskies scored their last run in the fifth off a Waitkus single up the middle.
- Muskingum scored four runs off 11 hits.
