VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia - The No. 3 Virginia Wesleyan softball team won game one and tied game two in a non-conference doubleheader against the Yellow Jackets of Randolph-Macon College on Thursday afternoon at TowneBank Park in Virginia Beach, VA.

GAME RUNDOWN
Score: Virginia Wesleyan 5 - Randolph-Macon 1
Records: Virginia Wesleyan 11-1 | Randolph-Macon 0-1
Location: Tom & Betty Broyles Field at TowneBank Park | Virginia Beach, VA

GAME RUNDOWN

• Randolph-Macon put a single run on the board in the top of the first to get the scoring underway.
• The Marlins responded with a tying run in the bottom half as Katelyn Biando hit a sac ground out to score Jessica Goldyn.
• Neither team scored in the next three innings despite Randolph-Macon leaving two stranded and Virginia Wesleyan leaving three on base.
• The Yellow Jackets left runners on second and third in the top of the fifth, while the Marlins put up three run including two that scored on a Biando double to left center field.
• RMC was kept off the board in the top of the sixth while Madison Glaubke scored off a Karlee Fretz double to put VWU ahead 5-1 and giving the Marlins the win.

KEY STATS

• Katelyn Biando led VWU in game one with three RBI on one hit in two at-bats and scored a run. 
• Jessica Goldyn scored twice on one hit in two at-bats while being walked twice.
• Hanna Hull threw a complete game giving up one run on three hits while striking out two and walking six.

GAME RUNDOWN
Score: Virginia Wesleyan 5 - Randolph-Macon 5 (9 innings)
Records: Virginia Wesleyan 11-1-1 | Randolph-Macon 0-1-1
Location: Tom & Betty Broyles Field at TowneBank Park | Virginia Beach, VA

GAME RUNDOWN

• Virginia Wesleyan got the game going with a run in the bottom of the first inning on a single by Biando that scored Goldyn. 
• The Marlins left the bases loaded in the bottom of the second but bounced back in the bottom of the fourth as Madison Glaubke, Kayla Womack, and Karlee Fretz all crossed home plate putting VWU in the lead 4-0.
• RMC had a big top of the fourth putting three runs on the board including two that came in on a double to center field and closing the Marlin lead to one run, 4-3.
• The Yellow Jackets sent the next six Marlin batters back in order and knotted the score at four all in the top of the sixth.
• Neither team scored in the remaining innings as the teams exhausted the regulation seven innings and went into the eighth tied at four all.
• RMC added a fifth run in the top of the eighth as the runner placed on second scored on a long single to right field to go ahead 5-4.
• VWU responded in the bottom of the eighth tying the score at five all as Glaubke crossed the plate but left a runner on third heading into the ninth. 
• Before the first pitch of the ninth inning the umpires met and called the game as darkness was setting quickly on TowneBank Park ending the game in a 5-5 draw.

KEY STATS

• Julie Fassl led VWU with two RBI in one at-bat.
• Madison Glaubke crossed home plate twice.
• Emily Seale threw all eight innings giving up five runs on six hits while striking out two of the 34 batters faced.

NEXT
Virginia Wesleyan returns to action this Sunday when they travel to Winchester, VA to take on the Hornets of Shenandoah University. The doubleheader will begin at 1:30 PM.