NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- Maritime softball took on the Waynesburg University Yellow Jackets on Sunday morning, their final day in South Carolina. The Bucs kept the score close after two innings, 3-2, then the Jackets ran away with the game after scoring nine in the fourth innings, winning 14-3 in five innings.

The Basics

Final: Yellow Jackets 14, Buccaneers 3

Records: Maritime 4-1

               Waynesburg 4-1

In the Circle

Maritime: Ashleigh Catlett (L, 1-1): 3.2 IP | 7 H | 13 R | 10 ER | 7 BB | 3 K

                Jennamarie Klemp: 1.1 IP | 2 H | 1 R | 0 ER | 0 BB | 0 K

Waynesburg: Madison Baker (W, 1-1): 4 IP | 10 H | 3 R | 3 ER | 0 BB | 0 K

Inside The Numbers

Maritime

• Reagan Kerecz, Hannah Burton, Abbey Doherty, and Sarah Holler each recorded two hits in the loss. Kelsey Booker and Nyomi Simental had a hit apiece.
• Burton had a triple and a double to account for all of the Bucs extra-base hits.
• Booker and Simental drove in one run each.
• Burton, Doherty, and Holler scored the three Buccaneer runs.

Waynesburg

• Braylee Corbin recorded a game-high three hits in the win. Graeson Grubbs had a two-hit game, and Rylee Rohbeck, Jamie Kelly, Kaitlyn Sullivan, and Lorryn Sepe all had one hit.
• Corbin had a triple in the game, and Grubbs tallied two doubles.
• Grubbs drove in five runs in the game. Corbin and Sepe each drove in two, Kelly and Meysa Heitmann drove in one apiece.
• Corbin scored four times, Rohbeck and Heitmann scored twice, and six other Yellow Jackets scored once.

How It Happened

Waynesburg got on the board three times in the top of the first inning. Kelly drove in Corbin to make it 1-0, and Grubbs doubled in Heitmann and Kelly. In the bottom of the inning, Maritime got one back on a Booker groundout that brought in Burton to make the score 3-1 after one.

In the second, Waynesburg scored two more times to extend the lead out to four runs. Then, the Bucs answered again in the bottom of the frame with two runs of their own on a Waynesburg error that allowed Doherty to score, and a Simental single that brought in Holler. The Bucs trailed, 5-3, after two innings. 

A scoreless third inning was followed by a nine-run rally by the Waynesburg offense that saw them out to a 14-3 advantage. The Buccaneers could not answer in the fourth or fifth and the game ended after five by run rule.