Box Score It took eleven games before the Blue Streaks hit their first homerun of the season.  25 games later, that total has risen to 20 due in part to a record setting performance by the Blue Streaks in their 10-8 game one victory over the Marietta Pioneers Saturday afternoon at Bracken Field. 

The Blue & Gold hit a team record five homeruns in game one en route to their two run victory. 

Box Scores:  Game One  /  Game Two

Down 3-0 in the bottom of the first, Blue Streaks junior catcher Kenzie Griffin hit a homerun that scored shortstop Sam Becker who led off the inning with a double.  Four hitters later, following a Heather Hurley two-out walk, Ollie Mathews connected on her first homerun of the season extending the Blue & Gold's lead to 4-3 heading into the seventh. 

Back came the Pioneers however as they took a 7-4 lead off four second inning hits, while the Blue Streaks were held silent in the second and third innings. 

Then came the fourth. 

Sophomore right fielder Colleen Brady led off the fourth frame with a solo homerun which served as John Carroll's third homerun of the day.  Then, five batters with the bases loaded, senior third baseman Erin Riccardi connected on her first homerun of the season, as her grand slam gave the Blue & Gold their first lead since the first inning, 9-7. 

Nine runs is all the Blue Streaks would have needed to win the ballgame as Marietta only managed to score one more time in the sixth.  However, Kenzie Griffin matched the Pioneers' sixth inning run when she belted her second homerun of the day, extending the John Carroll lead to 10-8. 

Griffin's homerun was the fifth of the game for the Blue Streaks, an all-time team record, and also served as her fourth homerun of the season.  It was also her third homerun in her last four games. 

Senior Brittany Danilov threw her fifteenth complete game, improving to 15-4 on the season.  Through seven innings she allowed six earned runs and struck out eleven. 

Marietta freshman Alexis O'Hair was credited with the loss as she fell to 11-6 on the year. 

In game two, freshman Rachel Byrnes made her second career start at pitcher for the Blue & Gold pitching two innings and allowing three runs on five hits before Brittany Danilov was brought into relief in the third inning. 

Following the Pioneers' three-run third, which was climaxed by Michelle Sayre's three run homerun, the Blue & Gold stormed right back by sending twelve batters to the plate while putting up eight runs in the third inning off four base.  Sophomore left fielder Morgan Robinson had much to do with the eight run rally as she connected on her second homerun of the season, a three-run shot, which put the Blue Streaks up 8-3 heading into the fourth.

Marietta would respond in the fourth with three runs narrowing, John Carroll's lead to two.  Two innings later, the lead would be cut to only one following Jessa Ott's two out RBI single.

Then in the bottom half of the sixth inning, up 8-7, the Blue Streaks would strike for four runs of insurance summited by three consecutive RBI base hits by Robinson, Becker, and Griffin, which gave the Blue & Gold an eventual final score lead of 12-7. 
Danilov was credited with the win following the Blue Streaks' 12-7 victory—her second of the day—improving to 16-4 overall.  Danilov finished the game allowing only four earned runs on six hits in five innings of work. 

Marietta's Ayla Spoljar fell to 0-1 on the season allowing 11 earned runs on thirteen hits in six innings. 

John Carroll improves to 24-12 overall on the season, 9-5 OAC.  With the Blue & Gold's two victories today, they move into sole possession of second place in the conference standings. 

Marietta falls to 18-16 overall, 6-9 in conference play.