CLERMONT, Fla. — The Wittenberg softball team opened opened its 10-game spring break trip Sunday with splitting a pair of games against Heidelberg and Penn State-Behrend as part of The Spring Games series. The Tigers defeated Heidelberg 7-2 before falling 3-1 to Penn State-Behrend.

The Basics

• Records: Wittenberg (3-3 overall), Heidelberg (0-1 overall), Penn State-Behrend (2-0 overall)
• Venue: Legends Way Ballfields - Clermont, Fla.

Stat Leaders - vs. Heidelberg

• Senior Julia Burch (Dublin, Ohio/Jerome) and sophomore Meghan McCans (Arcanum, Ohio/Arcanum) each finished with two hits and one RBI for the Tigers. McCans added two steals.
• Junior Harper Crews (Ypsilanti, Mich./Lincoln) and freshman Caylee Roe (Piqua, Ohio/Piqua) tallied two hits each, and freshman Kyleigh Bartlett (Beavercreek, Ohio/Beavercreek) added one hit, which was a double, and two RBIs. Crews and Roe had two steals each.
• Junior Samantha Zungri (Canal Winchester, Ohio/Canal Winchester) tallied a triple in the game.
• Sophomore Julia Hall (Powell, Ohio/Bishop Watterson) got the pitching start for Wittenberg and allowed two runs on five hits and one walk while striking out three over 3.2 innings.
• Sophomore Lilly James (Troy, Ohio/Troy) earned the win in relief, throwing 3.1 scoreless innings while giving up one hit and three walks and striking out six. She is now 3-1 on the season.
• Jade Torres led the Heidelberg offense with two hits.

Game 1 - Wittenberg 7, Heidelberg 2

• Heidelberg opened the scoring with a run in the bottom of the first inning, but Witteneberg tied the score at 1-all when Zungri came home on a wild pitch in the top of the second.
• The Student Princes regained the lead at 2-1 on an RBI double in the third inning but did not score again.
• After stealing third, McCans came home on a Heidelberg error to tie the score at 2-all in the fifth.
• Wittenberg capped the scoring with a five-run sixth frame. RBI bunt singles from Burch and McCans put the Tigers up 4-2, and they added to it with a 2-RBI double from Bartlett, who later scored on a Heidelberg error.
• Wittenberg finished with an 11-6 edge in hits and committed no errors to Heidelberg's three.

Stat Leaders - vs. Penn State-Behrend

• Burch, McCans, graduate student Samantha Casteel (Loveland, Ohio/Little Miami) and freshman Anna Engler (Kettering, Ohio/Chaminade Julienne) had one hit each for Wittenberg. Burch's hit was a double, and she tallied the team's lone RBI.
• McCans and Casteel both recorded a stolen base.
• Senior Kira van Ravensberg (Highlands Ranch, Colo./Mountain Vista) pitched all seven innings for the Tigers, allowing the three runs (two earned) on five hits and no walks while striking out four.
• Jocelyn McNany led the PSU-B offense with two hits, including a home run, and two RBIs.
• Abby Tingley pitched all seven innings for PSU-B, allowing the one run on four hits and two walks while striking out nine.

Game 2 - Penn State-Behrend 3, Wittenberg 1

• Penn State-Behrend got on the scoreboard quickly thanks to McNany's two-run homer in the top of the first inning.
• PSU-B increased its lead to 3-0 on an RBI groundout in the top of the second.
• The Tigers scored their lone run of the game in the fifth inning on a two-out RBI double from Burch.
• Casteel hit a leadoff single in the bottom of the seventh, but the next three Tiger batters recorded outs to end the game.
• PSU-B out-hit Wittenberg by a 5-4 margin and committed two errors to the Tigers' one.

Records & Milestones

• Wittenberg is now 21-20 all-time against Heidelberg and 2-1 all-time against Penn State-Behrend.
• Burch has 115 hits and 24 steals in her career. She is 15 hits and one steal shy of breaking into the program's all-time top 10 in those categories.
• Senior Hanna Ecker (Heath, Ohio/Heath) needs nine hits to reach 100 for her career. She also has 53 RBIs in her career, which is 25 shy of joining the program's all-time top 10 in that category.
• In the circle, van Ravensberg has 20 career wins, which is tied for 10th in program history. She also has 91 career strikeouts, which is 15 shy of breaking into the program's all-time top 10 in that category.

Up Next

• The Tigers return to action on Monday with matchups against Mount Union at 10 a.m. and Westminster at 12:30 p.m. in The Spring Games.

Above: Sophomore Julia Hall and freshman Syd Little prior to Sunday's games. | Photo by Diana Quevedo