OXFORD, Ohio – The Toledo softball team closed out its three-game series with defending conference champion Miami with a pair of losses on Wednesday afternoon. The Rockets were run-ruled 12-4 (5 inn.) in the opening game before falling 6-4 in the nightcap.

Aubrey Reed's solo homer in the top of the fourth put Toledo to within one run, 4-3, to Miami in the opening game of the doubleheader. That would be as close to catching the Redhawks as the Rockets would get. Miami's Chloe Parks cleared the bases with a triple to right field in the fifth inning to end the game 12-4.

Jenna Kroll's solo home run in the third inning of Game 2 put Toledo ahead 2-0, but Miami answered with three runs in its half of the inning. The Rockets closed the gap to 5-4 in the fifth, but the Redhawks score one run in the sixth to go up 6-4, winning the game and the series.

Sophia Knight lasted 4.0 innings on the mound and gave up eight runs against the Redhawks in the Game 1 loss.  Erin Hunt threw four strikeouts in 6.0 innings in Game 2 and gave up four hits in defeat.

Kroll's homer was her fourth of the season and 15^th of her career to push her into the No. 9 spot on Toledo's all-time career list passing Bailey Curry who hit 14 long balls, all in 2018.

Toledo (11-15, 4-4 MAC) will be back home at Scott Park this Saturday-Sunday, April 1-2 to host Akron, with a doubleheader beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday and a single game starting at noon on Sunday.

Game 1 – Miami 12, Toledo 4

• Lexi Eckman reached home on a fielder's choice to take a 1-0 lead in the first.
• Miami's Allie Cummins tied the game in the bottom half of the inning with a solo homer to center field.
• Cummins hit a three-run homer to give the Redhawks a 4-1 lead in the second.
• Lauren Erickson hit an RBI single to make it a 4-2 game in the third.
• Aubrey Reed got the Rockets to within one run when she hit a solo homer to left field in the fourth.
• Miami scored four runs in the fourth off a two-run double, an RBI single and sacrifice fly to make it 8-3.
• Toledo threatened with the bases loaded in the fifth but only brought one runner home to cut the deficit down to 8-4.
• Miami's Adriana Bartholomew homered to center field to make it 9-4 in the fifth.
• Chloe Parks hit a bases-clearing triple to score four in the fifth and end the game by rune-rule, 12-4.

Game 2 – Miami 6, Toledo 4

• Toledo took a 1-0 lead on an RBI double from Erickson in the first.  
• Jenna Kroll hit a solo homer, her fourth this season, to push Toledo ahead 2-0 in the third.
• Miami took a 3-2 lead with three runs in the third.
• The Redhawks scored two unearned runs in the fifth to lead 5-2.
• Leah Tipple and Aleah Marra each doubled in a run to get the Rockets to within one run in the top of the sixth, 5-4.
• An RBI double in the sixth gave Miami a 6-4 lead, and Toledo could not put together a rally in the seventh.