Butler took a 4-1 win over Indiana in the second game of a doubleheader in Bloomington, Ind., Tuesday night. Freshman
Alyssa Graves pitched six innings to pick up the win.
Indiana took a 7-2 win in the first game of the twinbill. Factoring in both results, Butler is now 13-20 on the season, while the Hoosiers are 15-24.
Graves got the start and went six-plus innings, allowing a single run and six hits. Indiana's lone run came in the top of the seventh with a leadoff home run by Sarah Galovich. After the next two batters reached, Graves gave way to sophomore
Gabbi Schnaiter. Schnaiter got a strikeout and then induced a line-drive double play to end the game and pick up her first save of the year.
Graves improves to 6-8 on the season.
Butler picked up runs in each of the game's first three innings. An
Alyssa Lach double followed by a
Kaitlin Doud single put Lach in position to score on an Indiana throwing error. That gave Butler a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning.
Claire Gilliland's infield single scored
Christina Candotti, who had reached on a double, in the second inning.
Candotti was the source of two more runs in the top of the third inning as her two-run single scored
Sarah Dixon and
Alyssa Garcia. That gave Butler a 4-0 lead that Graves would make stand. Lach and Candotti each had two of Butler's nine hits.
Goodin (4-5) took the loss for Indiana. Only one of the Bulldogs' four runs was earned as the Hoosiers committed three errors.
Indiana posted seven runs in the first three innings to post a 7-2 win in Tuesday's first game.
Butler briefly tied the game at 1-1 with a
Kaitlin Doud home run with one out in the top of the second inning. It was her fourth long ball of the season.
Doud took the loss in the circle, falling to 6-5 on the season. Schnaiter pitched the final three innings of the contest, facing the minimum of nine hitters.
Tara Trainer (9-13) got the win for Indiana, while needed only seven hits to score their seven runs. Butler pitches did not walk a batter.
The Bulldogs are back in action this weekend, traveling to Georgetown for a three-game BIG EAST series that begins Saturday in the nation's capital.
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