MISHAWAKA, Ind. --- The Bethel Pilots Softball team (5-33, 4-24) fell to the NAIA 20th ranked Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats 12-0 and 2-1 at Gardner Field on Friday, which was well attended from the Pilot and Wildcat faithful alike.
GAME 1
The top of the order for the Wildcats was rolling and set up for a two-run homerun to take at 2-0 lead in the top of the first. What seemed like clockwork, the Wildcats hit another two-run homerun along with a sacrifice fly to grab three insurance runs in the top of the third.
Indiana Wesleyan scored two more runs, both on errors, in the bottom of the fourth and continued to roll into the top of the fifth and put up three more.
Hannah Frady finished her outing allowing 12 runs (10 earned) on three walks and one strikeout.
GAME 2
Ryann Norris held the Wildcats for three innings until letting up an RBI single and scored on an error in the top of the fourth, but the Pilots answered with an Emmie Pugh solo homerun for her fourth of the season.
Norris held Indiana Wesleyan to two hits for the second time this season.
The last time the Wildcats were held to two hits was on Apr. 3 against the Marian Knights where the Wildcats fell 2-0.
Norris threw 99 pitches in her outing, allowing two hits, two runs, two walks and three punch outs.
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE
THE PILOTS HIT THE ROAD
Bethel hits the road to face another ranked team in the RV Mount Vernon Nazarene Cougars in Mount Vernon, Ohio in a doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 22 starting at 2 p.m.
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