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Mark Black
13
Winner WPI WPI 3-0
4
Aurora AURORA 2-3
Winner
WPI WPI
3-0
13
Final
4
Aurora AURORA
2-3
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
WPI WPI 0 3 3 0 7 13 10 2
Aurora AURORA 0 3 0 0 1 4 8 6

W: Abby Merchant (2-0) L: Bemmels, Sienna (0-1)

5
Winner Aurora AURORA 3-3
1
Anderson (Ind.) ANDERSON 2-4
Winner
Aurora AURORA
3-3
5
Final
1
Anderson (Ind.) ANDERSON
2-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Aurora AURORA 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 5 4 1
Anderson (Ind.) ANDERSON 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 7 5

W: Rivera, Mia (2-1) L: Hannah Merkel (0-1)

Game Recap: Softball |

Spartans Split Day Three in Florida

The Aurora University softball team split day three in Florida as they dropped game one 13-4 against Worcester Polytechnic Institute, then turned around and won against Anderson University 5-1.

The Basics
Game Score: Worcester Polytechnic Institute 13, Aurora University 4
Game Score: Aurora University 5, Anderson University 1
Record: Aurora University (3-3)
Location: Kissimmee, Florida

How it happened
Game One
- WPI got out to an early lead after a Spartan error in the second eventually led to three runs.
- AU answered in the bottom of the inning with three runs of their own.
- Kelsey Oviatt hit a sac fly to score Angie Delgado.
- Mia Rivera then walked with the bases loaded, scoring Lily Komperda.
- The last run of the inning for the Spartans came when Nina Richards was hit by a pitch, walking in another run, this time in Carly Clemens.
- WPI then scored nine unanswered runs over the course of the next three innings.
- Mia Malczyk singled to center in the fifth and final inning to score the last run of the game.
- The Spartans would fall 13-4 in five innings to WPI.

Game Two
- To start game two, this time it was the Spartans who got on top early.
- Two Anderson errors gave way to three runs for AU.
- First it was Rivera who stole second, creating chaos on the bases and forcing a throwing error by Anderson. This allowed Aubrey Ortiz to score from third.
- A Komerda single to left, later in the inning, brought in Rivera, then on another Falcon error, brought Richards in the increase the AU first inning lead to 3-0.
- Anderson scored their one and only run of the ballgame in the third.
- The Spartans scored two more runs in the fifth off of two more Anderson errors.
- AU would win game two of the day 5-1 over Anderson. 

Spartan Leaders
Game One
HITTING
HITS: Mia Rivera (2)
DOUBLES: Mia Rivera (1)
RUNS: Angie Delgado, Lily Komperda, Carly Clemens, and Holly Smith
RUNS BATTED IN: Mia Rivera, Mia Malczyk, Nina Richards, and Kelsey Oviatt (1)
 
PITCHING:
APPEARANCES (innings): Sienna Bemmels (2.1), Sarah MacManus (1.2), and Talia Lorenzo (1)
DECISIONS: Sienna Bemmels (loss 0-1)
STRIKEOUTS: Sienna Bemmels (2)

Game Two
HITTING
HITS:
 Mia Rivera (2)
TRIPLES: Mia Rivera (1)
RUNS: Mia Rivera (2)
RUNS BATTED IN: Lily Komperda (1)

PITCHING:
APPEARANCES (innings): Mia Rivera (7.0)
DECISIONS: Mia Rivera (win 2-1)
STRIKEOUTS: Mia Rivera (5) 
 
Up Next
Next action for the Spartan softball team comes on Thursday, March 12 from the spring trip in Central Florida. AU takes on College of St. Scholastica 9:00 a.m. (est) / 8:00 a.m. (cst) and Ohio Northern University 11:30 a.m. (est) / 10:30 a.m. (cst) in Kissimmee, Florida.
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