NORTH CANTON, Ohio – The Trevecca Nazarene University softball team (12-6, 4-0 Great Midwest) completed the two-game sweep of the Walsh Cavaliers (9-7, 0-2 Great Midwest) 5-1 and 9-3 on the road on Saturday, to remain unbeaten early on in the conference slate and win its 11th straight game.

Saturday's two wins shortly followed a two-game sweep of Malone on Friday and handed Walsh two losses in its first Great Midwest games of the season. The 11-game win streak is the most consecutive wins by a Trojan team since the 2014-2015 team - a group that advanced to the NCAA Midwest Region Finals - won 12 in a row. That is the NCAA DII Era record for consecutive wins at Trevecca.

The all-time Trevecca softball consecutive games win streak goes to the 2004-2005 team that won the first 26 games of the season.  

SEASON ESSENTIALS 

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HOW IT HAPPENED

GAME 1

• Walsh was the first to get on the board in the bottom of the third inning with an RBI double by Emma Bobey. Trevecca's bats got into a rhythm in the fifth inning, beginning with an RBI double by Carly Sperlich to score Abbie Page, tying the game at 1-1. Brooke Eakes put the Trojans ahead 3-1 with a double that drove in Makray Odom and Sperlich.
• Matti Byrd homered in the top of the sixth inning, scoring Kelsey Seitz for the 6-1 lead that would turn into the final of game one.

GAME 2

• It took less than two innings for the scoring to begin in the second game of the doubleheader, as Byrd knocked an RBI triple to send Alyssa Triner home for a 1-0 lead in the top of the second. Two more runs were scored in the top of the third, this time it was Triner sending Malone Thrift and Lenna Robinson home with an RBI single for a 4-0 lead. Triner and Thrift both scored on an RBI double by Megan Walker in the top of the fifth, and Trevecca led 7-0.
• Triner would score yet another run with Emilee Bundy in the top of the seventh on a Makray Odom single. Malone grabbed a run in the bottom of the seventh inning, but the Trojans would take the sweep with a 9-3 win.

CIRCLE AND BOX NOTES

GAME 1

• Odom was 2-4 with a run scored, and Eakes was 2-4 with a pair of RBIs. Page went 2-3 with a run.
• Ragyn Hall pitched six innings for the Trojans and secured the win. Hall allowed four hits and one unearned run, and struck out one batter to extend her season record to 6-4. Hannah Caffey stepped in and pitched one inning, striking out two batters and allowing two hits.

GAME 2

• Odom went 3-4 in Game 2 as well, with one RBI. Sperlich was 2-3 with an RBI, and Alyssa Triner had the same line with two RBIs.
• Odom was 2-5 with two RBIs, and Lenna Robinson went 3-5. Malone Thrift was 2-3, and Triner capitalized on all of her at-bats, going 3-3 with two RBIs and three runs scored.
• Alex Behnke pitched all seven innings, picking up her seventh win of the season (7-1). Behnke surrendered eight hits and three earned runs.

 WHAT'S NEXT

Trevecca is out of conference in the next matchup, a doubleheader at Christian Brothers on March 31.

The Trojans will return home on April 3 to jump back into Great Midwest play with a doubleheader against Ohio Valley.

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