Softball Score Most Runs in an Inning Since 2012 to Earn Split at Space Coast Spring Games

MELBOURNE, Fla. – The MCLA Softball team continued their annual spring break road trip at the USSSA Space Coast Spring Games today with games against Millikin University and St. Norbert College. Both games were examples of how explosive the offense can be at the D3 college level with a team scoring double-digit runs that lead to a run rule win. In the first game it was Millikin on the offensive end, while the second game saw the Trailblazers score their highest single inning run total in 13 years.

THE BASICS:

• Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
• Game #1: Millikin 21, MCLA 2
• Records: Millikin University Big Blue 5-7 (CCIW 0-0) | MCLA Trailblazers 1-6 (MASCAC 0-0)
• Series History: Millikin leads the all-time series 2-0, following an 8-0 win by Big Blue in the only previous meeting of the teams on March 19, 1999.
• Game #2: MCLA 15, SNC 4
• Records: MCLA Trailblazers 2-7 (MASCAC 0-0) | St. Norbert College Green Knights 1-7 (NACC 0-0)
• Series History: MCLA leads the all-time series 2-0 between the teams, including a 4-3 win by MCLA in the first-ever meeting on March 17, 2008.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Game #1
  • MCLA scored two runs in the first inning behind an infield single by junior second baseman Ella Staffier (Marshfield, MA), and walks by graduate student outfielder Maddy Teta (Troy, NY) and senior catcher Madyson Torres (Dripping Springs, TX) to load the bases before Staffier and Teta each scored on separate wild pitches.
  • Staffier finished the game 3-3 with a run scored and a stolen base for MCLA.
  • Millikin's Abby Willis went 3-5 with five runs driven in and Kailyn Coates went 1-4 with four RBI.
  • Kelsey Bruno scattered three hits while striking out nine to even her record at 2-2. The Trailblazers' Julia Johansen (Pittsfield, MA) took the loss to fall to 1-2.
• Game #2
  • For the second straight game, MCLA was the first team on the scoreboard. Junior pitcher Hailey Peabody (W. Springfield, MA) led off with an infield single to third base and then promptly stole second and moved to third on a wild pitch. Staffier walked and then also stole second in advance of a single to right field by Teta that brought Peabody around.
  • St. Norbert responded with a run in the bottom of the second to knot the game at one run apiece. The Green Knights sandwiched a single between a walk and a double play, before stringing three straight walks together to see Andrianna Volz force Karleigh Linssen home.
  • The Trailblazers salted the win away in the top of the third inning, sending 17 batters to the plate, scoring 13 runs on eight hits. The big plays were back-to-back two-run doubles by Peabody and Staffier, and another two-run double by Johansen.
  • The Green Knights did respond with three runs in the bottom of the third, making the most of two hits, two walks, and two MCLA errors.
  • MCLA added one additional run in the top of the fifth when Johansen singled up the middle to score sophomore Samantha Wheeler (Agawam, MA).
  • Peabody threw a complete game, 3-hitter to pick up her first win of the season, moving her record to 1-3.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE

• The 15 runs scored by the Trailblazers in the second game of the day was the most that the Trailblazers scored in a game since they scored 18 runs in the 2023 season finale against Salem State, picking up an 18-8 win on May 6^th, 2023.
• The 13-run outburst in the third inning of the second game was the most runs that MCLA has scored in an inning since they scored 16 runs in the first inning of a 21-4 shellacking of the Mass. Maritime Academy on April 1, 2012.

UP NEXT:

On Wednesday, MCLA will again be in action at the Space Coast Spring Games, where it will face the Western Connecticut State University Wolves and the Rutgers-Newark University Scarlett Raiders. The first game is scheduled for 10 a.m.

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