TOPEKA, Kan. -- The Washburn Ichabod softball team wrapped up the weekend splitting a pair of games against Southwest Baptist falling 13-6 in the opener before coming back to win the nightcap 10-1 in five innings.
Game 1 - Southwest Baptist 13, Washburn 6
SBU scored one in the first, five in second and six in the fourth leading to the 12-1 win.
SBU took advantage of three Ichabod errors in the second inning giving the Bearcats four unearned runs.
The Ichabods were held without a hit until a leadoff double by Cassidy Merriman in the fourth inning.
In the fifth, Washburn scored five runs when Ashley Ruder singled up the middle scoring Haylee Marsteller. Megan Stegman then followed along with a single up the middle scoring Lacie Myers. A bases-loaded walk by Merriman scored Lexie Myers cutting the lead to 12-3. Marina Quimby singled to right driving in Merriman and Stegman trimming the lead to seven at 12-5.
In the sixth inning, Lacie Myers led off the inning with a double to right center and moved to third on a single by Ruder. A wild pitch by Kacey Ayers scored Lacie Myers and moved Ruder to third cutting the SBU lead in half.
In the seventh, SBU added another run going up 13-6 and the Ichabods were held scoreless in the bottom of the inning wrapping up the game.
Ruder, Quimby and Lacie Myers each had two hits and Quimby drove in two for Washburn.
Samantha Carson fell to 8-8 in the circle allowing two earned runs in two innings allowing six runs overall. Quimby pitched the final five of the game striking out one.
Game 2 - WU 10, SBU 1 (5 innings)
The Ichabods jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first on a two-run homer by Cassidy Merriman scoring Ashley Ruder who led off the game with a walk.
After SBU scored one on a solo home run in the second, Haylee Marsteller hit a two-run homer off the scoreboard scoring Lacie Myers stretching the Washburn lead up to 4-1.
Washburn went up 5-1 after Megan Stegman drew a walk and then moved to second on a ground out and then scored on back-to-back wild pitches in the third.
An RBI single by Lacie Myers scored Marina Quimby stretching the lead to five at 6-1 in the fourth inning. With the Ichabods' next batter Marsteller hit her second home run of the game, this time to left field scoring Lacie Myers putting Washburn up 8-1 with Marsteller's third and fourth RBI of the game. Later in the inning Merriman connected on her eighth home run of the season to left scoring Ruder who singled as the Ichabods took a 10-1 lead.
Ashley Wills sat the Bearcats down in the top of the fifth picking up her eighth win of the season striking out three giving up one earned run scattering four hits.
Merriman and Marsteller each had two home runs and 4 RBI scoring twice as well. Ruder and Lacie Myers each scored twice too.
