Eagles Dropped Doubleheader at Johnson
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Knoxville, TN - Reinhardt opened the day with an early lead in Game 1, but Johnson answered in the fifth inning and walked it off in the eighth before completing a doubleheader sweep with an 8-0, six-inning win in Game 2 on April 22nd in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The Eagles were one out away from extending the opener further after Ansley Hight gave Reinhardt a 1-0 lead in the first inning with a solo home run to right field. That swing accounted for the first game's only Eagles run. Johnson did not pull even until the fifth, when Kadie Presley tripled to left field to bring home Dylan Jablonski. The game stayed tied into the bottom of the eighth, where Audrey Moorhouse lined a single to right to score the winning run and hand Johnson a 2-1 victory.
Despite the loss, Reinhardt got a strong start from Anslie Pettit, who worked 7 2/3 innings and allowed four hits and two runs, one earned, while striking out five without a walk. The Eagles also played clean defense behind her and finished Game 1 without an error. Reinhardt collected six hits, but Johnson starter Lindy Webber kept the Eagles from adding on after the first inning, going the full eight innings while allowing one earned run and striking out 10.
Game 2 turned early and decisively. Johnson scored twice in the first inning, first on Aly Dickerson's sacrifice fly that brought home Moorhouse, then on a Reinhardt error that allowed another run to score. Adelaide Hubbard added an RBI single in the second to make it 3-0, and the Eagles could not generate an answer against Alyssa Nicely, who threw a six-inning shutout and limited Reinhardt to three hits with five strikeouts.
The hosts broke the nightcap open with a five-run sixth inning. Megan Armstrong delivered the biggest hit of that frame, a three-run home run that pushed Johnson's lead to 8-0 and ended the game by run rule. Moorhouse went 3 for 4 and scored twice in Game 2, while Dylan Jablonski added two hits and two RBIs as Johnson finished with 13 hits. Reinhardt committed three errors in the second game, and Macy Langley was charged with eight runs, three earned, over 3 1/3 innings.
The doubleheader results left Reinhardt with two tough road losses, but the opener also showed the Eagles could match Johnson inning for inning behind Pettit's outing and Hight's early home run. In the end, the decisive moments came late in Game 1 and in Johnson's explosive sixth inning of Game 2.