Box Score The 25th-ranked Case Western Reserve University softball team lost the second game of the 2022 NCAA Division III Softball Championship Angola, Indiana Super Regional to 20th-ranked Trine University 6-2 at SportONE/Parkview Field on Saturday afternoon.
The Spartans end their season with a record of 30-12. The 2022 campaign marked the fourth time the program eclipsed the 30-win mark in a single season and the second time it has reached the Super Regional round. The Thunder advanced to the NCAA Finals in Salem, Virginia with a record of 32-11.
After three scoreless innings, Trine broke the tie in the top of the fourth inning with a solo home run. CWRU responded with a run in the bottom half of the inning to tie the score. Sophomore outfielder Stevie Rieger led off the inning with an infield single and reached third on a steal and a groundout. First-year utility player Isabella Russo lined a single up to the middle to plate Rieger. Russo led the Spartans with seven runs batted in during the team's seven postseason contests.
The Thunder scored two runs in the top of the fifth inning to regain the lead and added another in the sixth to increase their advantage to three.
Sophomore outfielder Kela Jagoda led off the bottom of the sixth inning with a double and scored on a Trine error, cutting the Spartan deficit to two. Trine scored its final two runs in the final frame to seal the win.
First-year pitcher Lexi Miskey (16-6) started the game in the circle for CWRU, allowing two earned runs in five and one-third innings with six strikeouts. First-year pitcher Kylie Hosey struck out four batters in one and two-third innings of relief.
Miskey struck out 159 batters during the campaign, the third-highest total in a single season in program history. She finished the season with a 1.27 earned run average, the lowest in a single season in program history, and 8.07 strikeouts per seven innings, the best rate in program history over a single season. Hosey recorded 85 strikeouts in 117.2 innings during the season with a 2.26 ERA, the eighth-best single season mark in program history.
