Game 1 Box

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EVANSVILLE, Ind.—The University of Evansville softball team snapped a seven-game losing streak and picked up its first Missouri Valley Conference wins of the season, sweeping Bradley in two games at Cooper Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

Game 1
Bradley looked to be the winner of the first game, but the Aces tied the game in the bottom of the seventh and eventually took a 2-1 win in 10 innings.

The Braves got on the board first with a one-out solo home run by Alycia Bachkora.

The Aces put base runners on in the seventh inning on a one-out single by Krista Price and a two-out walk by Jen Stahlhut. Kylie Wagner drove in the tying run with a single through the left side that allowed Price to score from second base and send the game into extra innings.

Wagner picked up her fifth win of the season with a walk-off home run to lead off the bottom of the 10th inning.

Wagner pitched the first five innings of the game and gave up two hits and came in to finish the game by pitching the last three innings and giving up one hit. Jen McKee pitched a scoreless sixth and seventh innings and picked up two strikeouts.

Wagner led the Aces’ at the plate with three hits and both RBI in the game. Amanda Ockomon was 2-for-4 with two stolen bases while Annie Vincelett had two hits. Jamie Lindauer had a double in the Aces’ nine-hit game.

Ashley Birdsong took the loss for the Braves, pitching the entire game and giving up two runs on nine hits with 10 strikeouts.

Game 2
The second game was a much different feel with the two teams combining for nine runs. The Aces outlasted the Braves, 6-3, to sweep both games.

The Aces took an early lead with a solo home run by Wagner in the bottom of the second, her second two-home run game of the season.

The Braves tied the game with a run of their own in the top of the fifth inning on a RBI hit by Julie Sherman.

The Aces put up five runs in the fifth inning on three hits and an error. Ockomon led off the inning with a single, and Lindauer doubled to right center to advance Ockomon to third. After an out, Amy Gaertner hit into a fielder’s choice to load the bases, and Price was hit by a pitch to knock in Lindauer. Kristen Shirk reached on an error by the third basemen that allowed two runs to score, and Wagner drove in the two more runs with a single up the middle of the diamond.

The Braves answered with two runs in the sixth inning with two consecutive singles from Miriam Wegmann and Bachkora, a RBI groundout by Jacqueline Vitale, and a RBI single by Lauren Meister.

Wagner had two more hits for the day and added three RBI. Ockomon and Lindauer accounted for the other two of the Aces’ four hits.

McKee took the win, pitching five and a third innings and giving up three runs on five hits with four strikeouts. Wagner pitched the last part of the game and gave up a hit.

Amanda Clack took the loss, going 4.1 innings and giving up two earned runs on three hits with two walks.

The Aces (10-25, 2-13) will travel to Ohio State for a midweek game on Wednesday at 4 p.m.