The Scots’ softball team will look to finish the 2010 campaign on a high note with only four games remaining in what has been the team’s most successful season since 2005.
After splitting a doubleheader with Hiram College last Tuesday, the Scots chose to rest their starters in non-conference action later in the week. On Thursday, John Carroll University came to Wooster and swept the Scots with relative ease. Wooster fell 10-0 in the first game as John Carroll was powered by a second inning grand slam.
In the second game of the day the Scots kept it close and fell 5-0. Wooster broke up the no-hitter in the bottom of the seventh when Gina Pirolozzi ’13 found a hole in the Blue Streak defense. Earlier this season, Pirolozzi tossed a no-hitter of her own in a 3-0 victory over Rockford College on March 11 in Ft. Myers, Florida. The two non-conference losses brought the team to 18-16 overall on the season.
On Wednesday Wooster hosted NCAC foe Allegheny College. The Scots defeated the Gators in the first game by a score of 6-3 before falling to Allegheny in the second half of the doublheader by a 3-0 margin. Pirolozzi pitched all seven innings giving up only six hits, but the Wooster bats could not find their rhythm in the second game.
The two-game split brought Wooster’s conference record to 5-5 and 19-17 overall.
With doubleheaders still to be played against rival Wittenberg University and Denison University, Wooster could finish the season as good as 9-5 in the conference. If the bats stay hot and the pitching remains dominant, the Scots are poised to take their season record to historic heights.
With two more wins, Wooster could lock up the program’s highest season win total in the 2000s. The team’s best campaign in the past decade came in 2002 when the Scots went 20-16.