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Box Score 2 FINDLAY, Ohio. – The No. 3 seeded Trevecca Nazarene University softball team (34-15, 16-6 Great Midwest) took part in their second-round matchup of the 2023 Great Midwest Championships against the No. 2 seeded Hillsdale College (33-18, 19-2 Great Midwest) and fell 2-1. Then they faced the No.1 seeded Ohio Dominican University (34-20, 20-4 Great Midwest) in the loser's bracket and won 7-6 (eight innings) to stay alive and avoid elimination.
POSTSEASON ESSENTIALS
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SERIES HISTORY/NOTES
The Trojans are 5-12 all-time against the Chargers, who dominated the series early on before they joined the Great Midwest in 2018. The Trojans have won four of the last 11, including splitting this season's double-header and a 2-0 win over the Chargers in the second game of last season's Great Midwest Championships.
The Trojans snapped an eight-game winning streak by the Panthers. Most of the games have been close, but ODU has found a way to victory each time. Four of those wins have come in the postseason. Trevecca owned a 10-3 mark in the first 13 meetings in the series. ODU joined the league in 2014, but the team met twice in 2006, both TNU wins.
HOW IT HAPPENED HILLSDALE:
Hillsdale struck first in the second inning of what was a low-scoring game. In the top of the third inning, the Trojans tied the game up at 1-1 when Jessie Brown reached home on a throwing error by Hillsdale. However, in the bottom of the fourth, Hillsdale retook the lead in the game's final run to go up 2-1.
Ashlan Sensing held Hillsdale to only two runs on three hits and struck out six batters in six innings that she pitched in. Meanwhile, the Trojans were held to a single run on three hits and could not rally back.
HOW IT HAPPENED OHIO DOMINICAN:
The Panthers started the game very strong as they tallied five runs in the opening inning and then added a sixth in the second inning.
The Trojans began to chip away at their early deficit by scoring a pair of runs in the third and fourth innings to cut it to 6-4. Kendall Andrews started things off with a triple to bring in Jessie Brown. Then Gracie Kirby hit an RBI single to bring in Andrews. In the fourth inning, Anna Bennett hit a two-RBI triple that scored Savannah Davis and Jessie Brown.
In the sixth inning, the Trojans completed the comeback to tie the game up at 6-6 when Alex Skinner and Kendall Andrews scored on an error by the Panthers. After a scoreless seventh inning, the Trojans moved to take a 7-6 lead in the eighth inning when Alex Skinner hit a solo home run with two out. The Panthers could not match in the bottom of the eighth as the Trojans advanced.
CIRCLE & BOX NOTES HILLSDALE:
CIRCLE & BOX NOTES OHIO DOMINICAN:
GREAT MIDWEST CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
Trevecca won the first four Great Midwest Athletic regular-season titles and postseason championships. In 2021, the Trojans added a fifth regular-season G-MAC title.
BEN TYREE NOTES
Ben Tyree is in his fifteenth as the head coach at Trevecca and owns ten 30-win seasons, seven in the D2 Era. Tyree owns the most wins in Trevecca history and has tallied more Great Midwest wins than any other league coach.
Overall: 501-217-2
Conference: 223-67-1 (154-50 Great Midwest)
Postseason: 52-27 (33-19 D2 Era)
Ben Tyree surpassed the 400-win mark in 2020
Fourteen of his 15 seasons have produced 21 wins or more
*2020 season 15-3 due to the COVID-19
Great Midwest Coach of the Year – four times
Coach of the Year – seven times (w/ NAIA years)
ALL-TIME TREVECCA NOTES
The Trojans are assured of their 23rd consecutive winning season, dating back to the 2000-2001 season. After producing a winning record (22-20) in the program's first season (1991-1992), the team didn't have another winning record until the 2000-2001 season.
This is the eleventh season for Trevecca with an NCAA Division II schedule.
348-158 Overall - NCAA Era (11 years)
33-19 Postseason - NCAA Era (11 years)
7 - 30-Win Season in NCAA D2 Era (11 years)
948-572-3 All-time Record (NAIA/NCAA - 32 Seasons)
16 - 30-Win Seasons (32 Seasons)
CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE
Wednesday | May 3
GM 1: #8 TIFFIN beat #1 ODU | 5-2 | Anderson
GM 2: #5 FINDLAY defeated #4 CED | 5-1 | Iriti
GM 3: #2 HILLS defeated #7 ASH | 2-0 | Anderson
GM 4: #3 TREV defeated #6 NORTH | 2-0 | Iriti
Thursday | May 4
GM 5: #1 ODU defeated #4 CED | 3-2 | Anderson
GM 6: #6 NORTH defeated #7 ASH | 4-0 | Iriti
GM 7: #5 FINDLAY defeated #8 TIFFIN | 10-2 | Iriti
GM 8: #2 HILLS defeated #3 TREV | 2-1 | Anderson
GM 9: #3 TREV defeated #1 ODU | 7-6 | Anderson
GM 10: #8 TIFFIN defeated #6 NORTH | 8-5 | Iriti
Friday | May 5
GM 11: #5 FINDLAY vs. #2 HILLS (9:00 AM) Anderson
GM 12: #3 TREV vs. #8 TIFFIN (11:30 AM) Anderson
GM 13: Winner GM 12 vs. Loser GM 11 (2:00 PM) Anderson
Day Four- Saturday
GM 14: Winner GM 11 vs. Winner GM 13 (9:00 AM) Anderson
GM 15: If Necessary Game (11:30 AM) Anderson
UP NEXT
The Trojans will face off against the No. 8 seeded Tiffin University on Friday at 11:30 AM in an elimination game, with the winner advancing to face the winner of No. 5 Findlay and No. 2 Hillsdale for the Great Midwest Championship. The Dragons won the first G-MAC meeting with Trevecca in 2019, but the Trojans won the next five. This year, Tiffin broke that run, winning the first meeting in Tiffin, Ohio. Trevecca won the very first meeting, a 6-5 win in Clearwater, Florida, in 2017.
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