Game 1 box score: Hillsdale 3, Trevecca Nazarene 0
Game 2 box score: Trevecca Nazarene 5, Hillsdale 0
After a weekend off, the Hillsdale College softball team got started in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference era on a rainy Saturday afternoon in Nashville, Tennessee.
The team's first game in the G-MAC went down as a 3-0 win, with a pair of freshmen making a big impact. The Chargers lost the nightcap 5-0 to the Trojans, making their record 7-7 overall and 1-1 in the G-MAC.
Game one was scoreless until sophomore Sam Catron crushed a solo home run to left field, her second of the season, to break open the 0-0 tie. But she wasn't alone in Hillsdale homers on this day.
Freshman Madison Stoner led off the fifth inning with her first career home run, a rainbow over the center field wall to put the Chargers on top 2-0. An insurance run was tacked on in the seventh when freshman Sarah Wojcik walked, stole second and scored on a single by junior Katie Kish.
That turned out to be more offense than freshman pitcher Erin Hunt needed, who made her conference debut by throwing a four-hit shutout, striking out six batters along the way. The contributions of freshmen like Wojcik, Hunt and Stoner show how quickly Hillsdale's young players are adapting to college softball.
The Hillsdale bats got shut down in the second game, as Trevecca outhit the Chargers 8-4 in the 5-0 decision. Kish was 2-for-4, and Sydney San Juan and Amanda Marra each had hits in the nightcap.