DePauw softball moved above .500 after winning both games in Thursday afternoon’s doubleheader against Anderson (13-10).
The Tigers won game one in walk-off fashion, as first-year outfielder Kat Pano’s single down the right field line in the eighth brought home Chasteen for the fifth and final run.
“It was an exciting game, and it showed how well we work together as a team,” said sophomore outfielder Liz Getz, who was recently named NCAC Player of the Week after hitting .727 and stealing four of five bases in four games. “I couldn’t be more excited to see each piece of the puzzle fall into place for the win.”
The team received another dominant performance on the mound during game one from sophomore Emma Baldwin, who gave the Tigers five no-hit innings in relief, striking out seven while walking one.
The Tigers won the second game 6-1, with pitcher, first-year Ashlee Gibson, hurling a three-hitter for her fourth win of the season. Senior shortstop Haleigh Chasteen slugged her first homer of the season to lead the offense in a game that saw the two teams combine for seven errors in the field.
After jumping out to an early 2-0 lead in the first, the Tigers watched their lead slip away in the fourth. Anderson had kept a 4-3 lead over DePauw until junior pinch runner Andi Sarkisian scored on junior centerfielder Julia Waggoner’s RBI groundout in the sixth to tie the game.
“It was great to be see us be able to drive in runs,” Baldwin said. “We did a lot of practicing the international tie breaker, so to see us be able to execute was an exciting thing.”
International tie breakers come in non-conference games where teams start extra innings with a runner on second and no one out.
DePauw (13-12) will return to conference play this weekend in Pennsylvania, where the Tigers will take on Allegheny College (6-10) in a doubleheader, followed by a doubleheader against Oberlin on Sunday in Ohio.
Game one against Allegheny is scheduled for a 1 p.m. first pitch.