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Box Score 2 DEFIANCE, Ohio – The Manchester University softball team dropped a road doubleheader at Defiance College on Monday afternoon.
The Yellow Jackets rallied for a come-from-behind victory in Monday's opener, winning by a final score of 6-4. Defiance College then followed with an 8-1 victory in the second game.
Game 1 – Defiance def. Manchester 6-4 – Box Score
Game 2 – Defiance def. Manchester 8-1 – Box Score
Doubleheader Notes:
* Senior Page Magner (North Vernon, Ind./Jennings County) hit a 2-run home run in the top of the 1st inning to put the Spartans ahead 2-0 in Monday's opening game. Magner went 2-4 in the opener.
* Defiance plated 5 runs in the 5th inning and added another run in the bottom of the 6th to grab a 6-2 lead.
* Manchester would plate a pair of runs in the top of the 7th inning but was unable to overtake the Yellow Jackets.
* Alexis Mokos (Cedar Lake, Ind./Hanover Central) went 3-4 in Game 1 with a run scored.
* Four Spartans had multi-hit efforts in the second game on Monday: Kodi Douglass, Brook Reaves, Lizzie Smith, and Alexis Mokos.
* Yellow Jacket pitcher Savannah McCoy was able to strand eight Spartan baserunners en route to her 3rd win of the season.
Up Next:
* The Spartans will host nationally ranked Transylvania on Saturday, April 3, at the MU Softball Field in a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday's doubleheader will officially kickoff Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference play.
