TOLEDO, Ohio – The Toledo softball team put up a tough fight in a doubleheader with defending Mid-American Conference Champion Miami at Scott Park on Tuesday, but dropped both contests, 4-1 and 15-8 .
The Rockets took a 1-0 lead in the sixth inning of the opening game before giving up four runs in the seventh. In the second game, a seven-run fifth inning was not enough to overcome a 12-0 deficit.
The first game was scoreless until the bottom of the sixth when Toledo struck. Sophomore pinch-runnerÂ
Sydney McKeever swiped back-to-back stolen bases to get to third base, then scored when sophomore
Lauren Erickson lined a two-out single to left field. However, Miami answered with four runs in the top of the seventh and kept the Rockets off the scoreboard in the seventh.
In the second game, Miami scored 12 runs in the first five innings before Toledo rallied with seven runs in the bottom of the fifth to trim the lead to 12-7. SeniorsÂ
Dayna Denner,
Aubrey Reed and
 Erickson all smacked RBI doubles in the fifth. An inning later, sophomore
Jenna Kroll hit a solo homer to cut the lead to 12-8, but Miami answered with three in the seventh to close out the scoring.
Toledo and Miami will finish out the series tomorrow morning, with first pitch scheduled for 11:00 a.m. The game can be watched locally on BCSN or streamed on ESPN+.
HOW IT HAPPENED
GAME 1 – Miami 4, Toledo 1
- The game was scoreless until the sixth inning when the action heated up. Miami had runners in scoring position with two outs when freshman Ellie Price struck out Julia Kennedy swinging to end the inning.
- In the bottom of the sixth, sophomore Sydney McKeever pinch ran for senior Anna Dixon, who had walked. McKeever stole second and third with two outs, then scored when sophomore Lauren Erickson hit a single to left field.
- Miami put up four runs in the seventh on back-to-back RBI doubles and a pair of RBI singles.
GAME 2 – Miami 15, Toledo 8
- Miami scored four runs in the third inning on an RBI single, a fielder's choice, a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly.
- The RedHawks cracked two homers in the fourth and scored five more runs to make the score 9-0.
- Miami added three more in the fifth on an RBI single and a two-run dinger.
- In Toledo's half of the fifth inning, sophomore Molly Ryan hit an RBI single, senior Dayna Denner followed with an RBI double, sophomore Jenna Kroll then hit an RBI single, senior Aubrey Reed buried an RBI double, Erickson followed with a two-run double and later scored on an infield throwing error.
- Kroll hit a solo homer in the sixth with two outs.
- Miami hit a sacrifice fly and a two-run double to close out the scoring in the seventh.
