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Game-1 Box Score
Game-2 Box Score

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – Eastern Kentucky’s softball team lost both games of a doubleheader at Bowling Green State on Wednesday.  The Falcons won by scores of 5-2 and 6-1.

In game one, Bowling Green (27-16) scored four runs in the first two innings on only one hit.  After the first run of the game scored on a passed ball, Shelby Fink’s single up the middle made it 2-0.  The Falcons took advantage of two walks and an error to add two more in the second inning without recording a hit.

The Colonels (20-24) didn’t get their first base runner until the fourth inning when Nicole Heitz reached on an error. 

After Christina Datko reached on an error in the sixth to give EKU its second base runner of the game, Diane Gallagher broke up the no-hit bid with a single down the right field line.  Heitz followed with a single up the middle to load the bases with only one out.  Two batters later Katie Tackett’s single up the middle drove in two runners, but the comeback attempt ended there.

Tackett finished 1-for-3 with two RBIs.  Katie Yoho went 2-for-2 with a run scored for BGSU.  Jamie Kertes (13-9) gave up two unearned runs on three hits over six innings of work.  She did not walk a batter and struck out six.

Christina Ciolek’s two-out RBI single in the first inning of game two staked Eastern to the early lead.  However, Erika Stratton tied the game with an RBI single in the second and Paige Berger gave Bowling Green the lead with a solo home run in the third.

Berger added a three-run double in the fifth to put the game away.  She finished 2-for-3 with two runs and four RBIs.  Stratton went 2-for-3 with an RBI.  Paris Imholz allowed one run on four hits over seven innings.  She did not walk or strikeout any batters.

Four different Colonels recorded one hit each in the second game.

Eastern Kentucky will step back into conference play this weekend with a three-game series at Eastern Illinois.  Saturday’s doubleheader is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.