Single game sees Knights take 9-5 win
 EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Taking a 5-0 lead in the second inning, Bellarmine fended off a rally by the University of Evansville softball team to take a 9-5 win on Wednesday afternoon inside Cooper Stadium.
Trailing 6-0 in the third, Evansville scored in three consecutive innings to get within two runs before Bellarmine reeled off the final two runs to finish off the win. Marah Wood had two hits and two RBI while Zoe Frossard added two hits of her own.
Bellarmine opened the scoring with five runs in the top half of the second. Emily O’Dee connected on grand slam to center field to finish up the 5-run frame. The Knights added a sixth run in the third.
Evansville was able to get on the board in their half of the third. Haley Woolf hit a single to center field to score Jessica Fehr and make it a 6-1 game. It did not take long for Bellarmine to get that run back as O’Dee blasted her second home run of the day to push the lead back to 7-1.
Three runs crossed the plate in the bottom of the fourth for the Purple Aces with Fehr recording a single to score Mackenzie McFeron. Marah Wood cut the deficit to three runs, hitting a 2-run double off the center field wall that scored Fehr and Zoe Frossard. In the fifth, it was McFeron adding another RBI to her tally, singling up the middle to plate run #5 of the day for UE.
Two more scores by Bellarmine doubled the lead to four as the game entered the bottom of the sixth and that would make it the final of 9-5. Leading the Knights was Emily O’Dee, who had two home runs and five RBI, including her grand slam. Making the start in the circle for UE was Paige McAllister. She allowed seven runs, six earned, in five innings. Sydney Weatherford threw the final two innings and gave up two runs.
Up next for UE is another road conference series at Illinois State on Saturday and Sunday.
