SB: Goodnight Scores Four Runs in DH Split

The Bethany College softball team ran the best start in school history to 15 consecutive wins before falling in the second game of the nightcap to Capital University in non-conference action Tuesday.  

GAME ONE: BETHANY 5, CAPITAL 2 

Graduate Destiny Goodnight scored four times as the Bison tallied the game one victory. She was 2-for-2 with a pair of stolen bases to be the catalyst for the Bethany offense. 

While Goodnight was causing havoc on the bases, fifth-year Josie Wise (9-0) scattered 10 hits over seven innings with four strikeouts.  

Both teams scored single runs in the first inning, and the Comets took the lead with a run in the top of the third inning. Instead of simply getting the run back, Bethany took the lead with a pair of runs as graduate Morgan Huey doubled home Goodnight and then scored on a junior Brooke Markland RBI groundout.  

Bethany added insurance runs in the fourth and sixth innings.  

Huey finished 2-for-4 with a double, run scored, and RBI, while freshman Olivia Kidd and Markland each had two RBI.  

GAME TWO: CAPITAL 9, BETHANY 0 (5 inn.) 

Bethany managed just three hits in losing its first game of the season as Capital jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning and cruised to the 9-0 win.  

Goodnight, junior Trista Morris, and freshman Amber Dedmon all had singles for the Bison.  

After scoring four runs in the first inning, Capital scored a run in the third inning and two runs in the fourth and fifth innings.  

Junior Katelyn Ziems (3-1) allowed nine runs, eight earned, on 14 hits with two strikeouts.  

Bethany (15-1) returns to Presidents' Athletic Conference action 1 pm. Saturday, hosting Chatham.  

This article was written by Assistant Athletic Director for Communications, Jayson Ameer Rasheed. If you believe there are mistakes in information-- or have a separate thought relating to the event in the article -- please email ameer.rasheed@bethanywv.edu for any corrections/comments.