Greencastle, Ind. - Top-seed DePauw opened North Coast Athletic Conference play with a 6-4 loss to fourth-seed Hiram and then scored five runs in the bottom of the fifth inning of its elimination game against Ohio Wesleyan to take a 5-3 lead before the game was halted due to darkness. The contest will resume at 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 12, with the winner advancing to Sunday's 11 a.m. elimination game against Denison.
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In the Hiram game, the Terriers took a 1-0 lead in the first as Danielle Robles led off with a walk and moved to second on Kylie Perez's sacrifice bunt before Darian Kanno drove her in with a double.
DePauw countered in the bottom of the first as
Kelsey Bernhard led off with a walk and scored when
Katie Mathies hit a two-run homer.
Hiram regained the lead in the fourth when Kanno led off with a single and Angel Santellan hit a two-run homer to make it 3-2.
DePauw's
Riley Heim walked in the fourth, stole second and moved to third on
Ella Ohrvall's grounder before
Alyssa Anderson drove her in with a ground out.
Giselle Bahen and Kanno each reached on errors in the fifth before Santellan hit into a fielder's choice that forced Kanno at second. Bahena then scored on a wild pitch to give Hiram a 4-3 advantage.
Hiram tacked on two insurance runs in the sixth as Fayth Kawamura led off with a single and pinch-hitter Megan Moser reached on an error and moved to second on the play. Perez's single down the left field line scored both and made it 6-3.
Heim led DePauw with two of its six hits with Kanno leading Hiram with three of its eight hits.
Kanno improved to 10-4 while
Kersten Brayton dropped to 5-4 with Trinity Meza collecting her first save.
