Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Facts:
Scores: Roanoke 6, Bridgewater 4 (inn.); Randolph-Macon 3, Roanoke 0
Location: Salem, Va. – Moyer Complex
 
The Short story:  The seventh-seeded Roanoke College softball team split a pair of games Sunday in the first day of play at the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Tournament, hosted at the Moyer Complex.

Maggie McCray broke the ODAC single-game record with 20 strikeouts and Leah Butts drove in four runs as the Maroons outlasted No. 2 Bridgewater College 6-4 in 11 innings in the first game. Randolph-Macon upended the Maroons 3-0 in the second game.
 
How it happened (Game 1 vs. Bridgewater):
*The Maroons went ahead 1-0 in the second inning. Haleigh Vaughan led off with a triple to centerfield, and came home one out later on a Butts' suicide squeeze.
*The Eagles tied the game in the bottom of the third, taking advantage of a Maroon miscue.
*McCray struck out nine consecutive batters from the fifth to the seventh inning.
*Starting in the 10th inning, a runner was placed at second base to open the frame. In the top of the 10^th, Erin Gorschboth successfully sacrificed the runner to third and beat the throw to first. Adriana Rivera hit a sacrifice fly to plate the go-ahead run, but Bridgewater countered with an RBI single in the bottom of the 10th.   
*Carsyn Michaels belted an RBI triple and Butts ripped a three-run double in the 11th to put the Maroons ahead 6-2. The Eagles rallied for two in the bottom of the inning but McCray got out of the jam to seal the win.

 Inside the numbers (Game 1 vs. Bridgewater):
*McCray tossed 171 pitches in the contest, and allowed just three hits, three walks and one unearned run to move her record to 12-7.
*Butts had four RBI and Michaels had two hits.
*Vaughan had a hit and a walk.
*Mackenzie Cauthorn pitched a complete game for Bridgewater, allowing four earned runs while striking out eight.
  
How it happened (Game 2 vs. Randolph-Macon):
*The Yellow Jackets scored one in the third and followed up with two in the fourth to go ahead 3-0.
*Roanoke left one runner on base in the first, second and fourth innings and two in the third and fifth frames.
 
Inside the numbers (Game 2):
*Michaels went 2-3 with a double and Kassidy Lancos also had two hits with a stolen base.  
*Baylee Compton tossed 2 2/3 innings of relief, allowing no runs, hits or walks while striking out two.
Gracie Ellis threw a complete-game shutout for R-MC, allowing six hits and no walks while striking out four.


Up Next:
Roanoke (21-21) will play Bridgewater at 1 p.m. Monday in an elimination game, with the winner advancing to play R-MC at 4 p.m.