SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio – Notre Dame College was riding a three-game winning streak, following a walk-off 5-4 victory in game one against Fairmont State University, on Wednesday. The NDC Falcons scored four in the first inning, but needed a bases-loaded single in the seventh to secure the victory. Game two was a close battle, but Fairmont State pulled away late and won 4-1.

Notre Dame brought the bats out early, as they loaded the bases with nobody out in the first inning. Sophomore Katelyn DeWeese singled, senior Daniele Rivera walked and freshman Emma Gumont was hit by pitch. Junior Emily Marsh hit a ball toward the shortstop and a run scored, but Rivera was called out as the ball hit her. The next batter, senior Alexi Maciejowski sent her sixth home run of the season over the center field fence to plate three more runs.

In the top of the third, FSU would score an unearned run. Hannah Workman reached on an error and scored on a single.

Freshman Allison Weinau pitched four strong innings for NDC. She allowed one unearned run, and was able to get out of a bases-loaded, one out situation in the second without allowing a run to cross the plate. Over her last five appearances, including both games on Wednesday, she has not allowed more than three earned runs.

Fairmont State tied the game in the fifth. The FSU Falcons loaded the bases with no outs and then used two sacrifice flies and an error to score three runs.

Sophomore Madison Olszewski (2-1) picked up the win after entering the game and going 2 2/3 scoreless, and hitless, innings, while striking out two.

Still tied going into the seventh, Notre Dame went right to work. Sophomore McKenzie Anderson and DeWeese singled to start the inning. Rivera attempted to put down a sacrifice bunt, but the FSU pitcher threw to third and everyone was safe. Then, Gumont stepped up and hit a line drive into right-center field to win the game.

DeWeese and Gumont each had two hits in the game.

In game two, Fairmont State loaded the bases with one out in the first inning, but NDC starting pitcher Madison Olszewski worked her way out of it with back-to-back strikeouts. In the bottom of the first, DeWeese, Rivera and Maciejowski singled for NDC, but the teams were scoreless after the first frame.

Fairmont State, again, loaded the bases in the second inning, and a groundout scored one.

The NDC Falcons responded in the third, and tied the contest. Marsh hit a sharp single up the middle and Rivera advanced to third base. Maciejowski, who went 2-for-2 in game two, knocked a run in with a ground-rule double to right-center field.

The tie did not last long, as FSU took advantage of a couple mistakes in the field by Notre Dame, to plate the go-ahead run. NDC pitchers Olszewski and Weilnau, who entered the game to pitch, did a good job to limit the damage.

Heading to the bottom of the fourth, the game fell into the hands of the pitchers. Both offenses went down in order, in two consecutive innings.

With runners on second and third in the seventh inning, Fairmont State's Torrie Gall singled in both runs to put FSU ahead 4-1.

Olszewski (2-2) took the loss in game two, but she struck out four and allowed just one earned run in 3 2/3 innings of work.

Notre Dame will be back on Normandy Field tomorrow, at noon. The Falcons host Frostburg State.