CLERMONT, Fla. -- Olivia Prosser had her first career walkoff hit in Friday's second game to help the Elizabethtown College softball team split its game with Houghton and North Central (Minn.). Prosser's game-winner gave the Blue Jays a 5-4 win over NCU while they dropped their first game to Houghton, 7-2.
Game 1: Houghton 7, Elizabethtown 2
Houghton (3-4) grabbed a run in the second inning to go ahead 1-0, but Elizabethtown (5-3) evened the score two innings later off
Ashley Mistichelli's RBI double down the left field.
Ashley Judd scored on the play to tie it 1-1 in the fourth.
The Highlanders had a four-run fifth inning to go up 5-1. They added two more in the sixth and led 7-1 going into the seventh.
Amelia Lark hit a sac fly to bring home
Grace Hussey in the seventh, but Houghton closed it out and did not allow the rally to continue.
Game 2: Elizabethtown 6, North Central (Minn.) 4
The Rams jumped ahead 3-0 by the fourth inning, but
Cierra Kunkle was able to limit North Central (1-8) the rest of the way.
Etown got a run back on Prosser's perfectly placed RBI bunt in the fourth inning.
Kadyn Crisswell scored on the sophomore's base hit. Prosser was able to score later in the inning on Kunkle's RBI single to make it 3-2 in the fourth.
NCU doubled its lead to 4-2 with a run in the top half of the seventh, but the Blue Jays were not done yet.
Kristen Aydelotte found the hole in the left side and sent a single through to get on with one out.
Lisa Scanlon made it consecutive singles after her hit up the middle moved Aydelotte to second.
The runners were able to move up on a called infield fly. The ball hit the dirt and got away from the defense, allowing Hussey, a pinch runner, and Aydelotte to move up a base.
Kaitlyn Witmer came in to pinch hit and came up clutch for the Jays. She lofted a two-RBI single to right field to bring in both base runners to tie the game at 4-4.
After a close call on a foul ball, Prosser came through with a game-winning double to score Witmer from first, the first walkoff hit of her career, to lift Elizabethtown to the 5-4 win in the bottom of the seventh. She was 2-for-4 at the plate with a team-high three RBIs.
Kunkle earned her first career win with the Blue Jays, going 4.1 innings in relief with four strikeouts.
The softball team closes out its Florida trip with two games tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m.