Softball drops OAC doubleheader against Mount Union on Dedication Day of new Durbin-Hileman Stadium

ADA — The Ohio Northern softball team dropped an Ohio Athletic Conference doubleheader against Mount Union, falling 6-1 and 11-0 on Dedication Day of new Durbin-Hileman Stadium on a warm and windy Saturday.

The Basics

• Records: Ohio Northern (21-15 overall, 9-7 OAC), Mount Union (31-4 overall, 14-0 OAC).
• Venue: Durbin-Hileman Stadium - Ada, Ohio.

Game 1 - L, 1-6

• The game remained scoreless until Mount Union scored first in the top of fourth inning.
• The Purple Raiders scored again in the top of the fifth and scored three runs in the top of the sixth to make the score 5-0.
• Junior Mariana Alejandro (Gibsonburg) hit a triple to lead off the bottom of the sixth and then scored Ohio Northern's lone run off an MTU error.
• Mount Union scored again in the top of the seventh, making the score 6-1.
• Alejandro led the Polar Bears with two hits.
• Junior Ashley Lenser (Brookville) pitched a complete game, striking out four.
• MTU out-hit ONU 8-6.

Game 2 - L, 0-11 (5 innings)

• Mount Union started off scoring with three runs in the top of the second inning.
• The Purple Raiders scored five more in the top of the fourth and added a three-run homer in the fifth to make the score 11-0.
• Fifth-year senior Sydney Motylinski (Ida, Mich.), and sophomores Allie Wilson (Wapakoneta) and Kylie King (London/Jonathan Alder) each went 1-for-2 for the Polar Bears.
• Freshman Taylor Keck (Wadsworth) pitched the first 3.1 innings and senior Kayla Runyon (Tipp City) finished the last 1.2.
• MTU out-hit ONU 13-4.

Notables

• Motylinski now has 144 career base hits and 102 career RBIs. She ranks tied for 10th all-time in ONU history with her 102 RBIs.
• Rosser, Wilson and Motylinski lead Ohio Northern in batting through 36 games this season with averages of .395, .394 and .364, respectively.
• Lenser is now 33-15 in her career with 214 strikeouts and a 1.93 ERA in the circle. She is ranked tenth all-time at ONU for wins, seventh in strikeouts, and seventh in ERA.
• ONU is now 58-48-1 all-time against MTU, including a 31-23-1 mark in Ada.
• The Polar Bears are currently in fourth place in the OAC Regular Season standings and need one win in their season-ending double header at Heidelberg next Saturday to clinch a spot in the 4-team OAC Tournament.
• Ohio Northern is in its 57th season of softball. The Polar Bears are 993-675-4 all-time, a winning percentage of .594.
• Seventh-year head coach Jackie Price is now 175-107-1 at Ohio Northern for a winning percentage of .618.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears will wrap up the non-conference portion of its schedule on Tuesday with a 3 p.m. doubleheader at Mount Saint Joseph.