Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 It was all going very well for John Carroll. Through 13 games, the bats were alive and the record proved it, as the Blue Streaks were scoring 5.6 runs per game and their ledger was nine wins against four losses.

The last seven games have been another story. Including the two games played today in Wilmington.

The Quakers scored twice in the bottom of the seventh to prevail, 2-1, in the pitching-dominated opener, then carried that momentum into game two and won going away, 9-4.

It was just the second time in series history that JCU had lost both games of a doubleheader to Wilmington, and the first time on the road.

Unfortunately, John Carroll's offense remained in a deep freeze. After scoring at least six runs in six of its first 13 games, JCU has now gone seven consecutive games without reaching six runs. In going 1-6 over those seven games, JCU has scored 18 runs total (2.33 per contest).

Game One
Jenn Patterson for John Carroll and Grace Shell put on the kind of show that one would expect from two pitchers with a combined record of 12-4. 

JCU scored an unearned run when Lindsay McKnight scored on a two-out error in the top of the first. That 1-0 lead would hold until the bottom of the seventh.

Patterson had been masterful, scattering three hits over the first six innings. But the Quakers with their backs to the wall finally got to the junior hurler. 

Wilmington got one on then one out before getting three straight singles to tie the game at 1-1. With the bases still loaded and only one out, Patterson needed an escape plan but a bobbled grounder on the next at bat did not allow for the plan to be executed.

JCU had three hits in the game, two by McKnight.

Game Two
The Blue Streaks again scored first when a McKnight sacrifice fly scored Miranda Noday, who had led off the game with a double down the left field line.

But that would be the only John Carroll lead of the nightcap. Wilmington scored three times in the third, two more in the fourth, and four in the fifth to break open a close contest.

Noday and Emma Gurley each had two hits as part of the Blue Streaks' eight total.

Alee Burke was the only JCU pitcher who was unscathed against the Wilmington attack, retiring all four batters she faced.