Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 A week prior, the postseason hopes for John Carroll softball seemed to be teetering on the edge of a cliff.

Two sweeps later, the Blue Streaks are back in control of their destiny.

Tuesday afternoon in New Concord, Ohio, JCU employed two different methods of winning games to leave Muskingum University with a rare sweep. A mercy-rule 10-1 victory in six innings was followed by a 12-8 triumph in the nightcap that took ten innings to complete.

Box Scores:  Game One  /  Game Two

John Carroll broke open a close game in the opener with three runs in the fifth and four more in the sixth. Seniors Michelle Murphy and Ollie Mathews each had an RBI double to key those innings. Another senior, reigning Ohio Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week Brittany Danilov, picked up the win by allowing one run on six hits in five innings.

The nightcap was a back-and-forth affair that featured 13 extra base hits. JCU started it off by scoring three runs in the second on an RBI double by Mathews and a home run by Colleen Brady.

But Muskingum scored at least one run in five consecutive innings, the last of which tied the game at 8-8 to send the game into extra innings. Down to their last strike, the Muskies got a two-out run scoring triple from Ashley Price in the bottom of the seventh.

Neither team dented the scoreboard again until the top of the tenth. John Carroll exploded for four runs, and it all started with a one-out single by Brady. After Lia Locey reached ona  single, Morgan Robinson singled to center field to push Brady across with the winning run.

The Blue Streaks did not stop there. RBI hits by Samantha Becker and Mackenzie Griffin provided John Carroll with a four-run cushion.

Trisha Pike pitched a scoreless bottom of the tenth to secure the win.

John Carroll improves to 22-10 overall and 7-5 in the OAC, which leaves the Blue Streaks tied for second with Otterbein with six games remaining.