Madelyn Belville
2
Monmouth MCSB 5-6
3
Winner Rowan ROW 4-1
Monmouth MCSB
5-6
2
Final
3
Rowan ROW
4-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Monmouth MCSB 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 2
Rowan ROW 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 7 0

W: Emily McCutcheon (3-0) L: Leber, Abby (2-3)

14
Winner Heidelberg BERG 5-5
1
Monmouth (Ill.) MONMOUTH 5-7
Winner
Heidelberg BERG
5-5
14
Final
1
Monmouth (Ill.) MONMOUTH
5-7
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Heidelberg BERG 3 7 3 0 1 14 16 0
Monmouth (Ill.) MONMOUTH 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 1

W: J. Voitko (3-2) L: Durfee, Elizabeth (1-3)

Game Recap: Softball | | Nathan Baliva

Softball Drops Final Two Games in Florida

Monmouth takes No. 24 Rowan to Extras

The Monmouth College softball team took the No. 24 team in the nation to extra innings but ultimately lost their final two games in Florida on Friday. The Fighting Scots led No. 24 Rowan until the bottom of the sixth and lost 3-2 in eight innings before falling to Heidelberg University 14-1. 

In the first game. Lillian Hucke (Aledo, Illinois) walked with one out in the first and MyKenzie Kloess (Dupo, Illinois) doubled. Madelyn Belville (Rushville, Illinois) singled to right for a 2-0 Monmouth lead. 

Pitcher Abby Leber (Tremont, Illinois) pitched out of a jam in the first inning and stranded two more in the third. Monmouth left runners at second and third in the top of the sixth and Rowan tied the game in the bottom of the inning with a two-out home run. 

Both teams had runners on in the seventh but didn't score. Monmouth put runners on second and third with nobody out in the eighth but couldn't take the lead. In the bottom of the eighth, Rowan won the game with a two-out single. 

Leber (2-3) took the loss with a complete game and she allowed just one earned run while striking out two. 

Heidelberg came out swinging in game two and they scored three in the first,, seven in the second and three in the third. Monmouth scored in the bottom of the first as Belville singled home Kloess but ultimately the game went to Heidelbeg 14-1. 

Elizabeth Durfee (Arlington, Washington) took the loss as the Scots used four pitchers in the five-inning game. 

MONMOUTH MOMENTS: The Scots went 4-4 on the Florida trip…Kloess had a hit in six of the eight games and finished the week with nine hits and nine runs scored…Belville had seven RBI on the week…Olivia Riddley (Chatham, Illinois) and Kendall Lewis (Cambridge, Illinois) both hit home runs on the trip and Riddley drove in five runs…Leber mad four starts and  and struck out 20 batters over 27 1/3 innings…Durfee also made four starts and struck out  14 batters in 17 ? innings…Anna McCarty (Decatur, Illinois) had a win and a save on the trip…The Scots next play on Saturday, March 18 in the home opener against Augustana…The double hear starts a 1 p.m. at the Monmouth College Softball Field.
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