FAIRMONT, W.Va. – To start the doubleheader on Saturday, Notre Dame College scored three times in the fifth inning to tie the game at four. Sophomore Grace Fisher only allowed one run after the third inning and kept the game tied until Alyssa Wahl hit the go-ahead two-run homer in the 10th inning of an NDC 7-5 win. Fairmont State took game two by a score of 3-1.
 
Right away, Notre Dame put a run on the board. The second batter of game one, Destany Blake, drew a walk and moved to second as senior Mia Cipriano singled. Freshman Avery Robinson then dropped a single down the left field line to score Blake.
 
Fairmont State got a two-run home run from Emily Riggs in the second inning and then added one run in both the second and third innings to grab a 4-1 lead.
 
Fisher, the NDC pitcher in game one, then allowed just three hits and zero runs from the fourth inning through the ninth inning. She picked up the win by going 10 innings in the circle, while allowing three earned runs.
 
The Falcons only had three hits in the contest until they tied the game in the fifth inning. Senior Meadow Odum led off the fifth with an infield single and sophomore Danielle Fick knocked a run in with an RBI double to right field. Everyone was safe when freshman Jocelyn Quior reached on a fielder's choice, and senior Katelyn DeWeese put the ball in play to score another run on a groundout. Blake singled to move Quior to third and the Falcons tied the game at four when Robinson had another RBI single.
 
Fairmont State had multiple opportunities to take the lead, or win the game, later on, but never scored because of Fisher and the NDC defense. The first two FSU hitters reached base in the sixth inning and then Fairmont State had bases loaded in the eighth inning, along with a runner on third in the ninth inning. But, the home team did not get one to cross the plate.
 
Notre Dame took advantage and completed the comeback off the bat of Wahl in the 10th. With a runner placed on second base, due to the international tie-breaker rule, Wahl led off with a home run to left field. The NDC Falcons did not stop there as freshman Kaitlyn Mazzocca and junior Ella Collinsworth both singled. Odum walked and a run scored on a fielder's choice. Notre Dame led 7-4.
 
Fairmont scored once in the bottom of the 10th, but it was too little, too late.
 
For NDC, Blake, Robinson, Mazzocca, Odum and Fick all had two hits as NDC collected 13 hits in the game.
 
The win represented the Falcons' third in a row and their seventh victory in the last eight games. The loss was Fairmont's second conference loss of the season.

Game one of the of the doubleheader was also the first time NDC has reached the 10th inning in a game since April 7, 2019. That contest went 11 innings and was also an NDC at Fairmont State matchup.
 
Notre Dame did not score until the fifth inning of game two, but NDC pitcher Allison Weilnau was cruising and kept the Falcons in the game. With one RBI single in the second inning, FSU led 1-0, but could not add on.
 
In the top of the fifth, three consecutive singles by sophomore Lindsay Breuer, Wahl and DeWeese set up a bases loaded RBI single by Blake to tie the game.
 
Fairmont State then scored one run in the fifth and one in the sixth to grab the lead back.
 
Breuer and DeWeese both had two hits in the second game. Weilnau allowed two, unearned, runs in 4 2/3 innings pitched.
 
Notre Dame will travel to play Frostburg State in Morgantown, W.Va., on April 7. First pitch is scheduled for 12 p.m.