ADRIAN, Mich. -- The Siena Heights softball team swept a non-conference doubleheader against Ohio Christian, 5-4 and 9-4, on Wednesday at Christensen Memorial Softball Field.
The Saints (10-6) will return to action Thursday with a WHAC doubleheader against Concordia, beginning at 3:30 p.m.
Siena Heights 5, Ohio Christian 4
Liberti Fair's swinging-bunt single plated Faith Breinager from second base as Siena Heights won in walk-off fashion.
Fair batted 3-for-4 with a run and two RBI while younger sister Emma Fair went 2-for-3 with a run.
Faith Breinager added two runs scored and a stolen base. Ellie Thelen tripled.
Shyann Truax was the winning pitcher. She was charged with only one earned run on six hits while totaling four strikeouts and two walks.
SHU opened the scoring on an RBI single by Liberti Fair in the first inning before OCU took a 3-1 lead in the third.
Breinager and Emma Fair scored on wild pitches during the third and fourth innings, respectively, to even the score at 3-3.
Ohio Christian retook the lead in the fifth, going up 4-3, before an RBI triple by Thelen tied the contest in the bottom half of the inning.
That set the stage for Liberti Fair's two-out game-winner in the seventh. The left-handed hitter hit a nubber out in front of home plate and raced to first base. After a no-throw to first, Breinager scored after she was awarded home plate via obstrution.
Siena Heights 9, Ohio Christian 4
Clinton finished 2-for-4 with three runs and a stolen base. Truax added a 2-for-4 game with two RBI, Emma Fair went 2-for-3 with two runs and one RBI, and Carly Grassley finished 2-for-4 with a double, run and RBI.
Cassi Kieper was the winning pitcher. She allowed one earned run on six hits and totaled five strikeouts and one walk.
SHU scored the game's first seven runs, beginning when Clinton crossed the plate on an error in the first.
During the second, Avery Schellenberger drove in a run and Grassley scored on a wild pitch.
Liberti Fair, Emma Fair and Grassley had RBI singles in SHU's 4-run third.
OCU finally got on the board in the fourth with a pair of runs, which the Saints answered in their half on a two-run single by Truax.
Ohio Christian tacked on single runs in the fifth and seventh frames.
