WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Boilers continue their historic run, sweeping the Buckeyes in game three on Sunday morning at Bittinger Stadium.
The Boilers took down Ohio State 12-6, moving to a 14-game win streak, and took the sweep over the Buckeyes after clinching the series in game two.
BOILER BITS
Offensive Highlights
- Anna Moore: 3-for-4, HR, 5 RBI, R
- Moriah Polar: 3-for-5, 2B, 4 RBI, 2 R
- Kylie Franks: 2-for-4, R, RBI
- Khloe Banks: 2-for-4, 3 R,
- Ashlynn Campbell: 2-for-2, RBI, 2 R
Pitching Breakdown
- Malone Moore: (W, 2-0) 4.0 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 6 BB, 6 K, 22 BF
- Brianna Fontenot: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 BF
- Brooke Perez: 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 3 K, 5 BF
Purdue jumped out to a hot start in the bottom of the first, plating three runs in an unusual manner.
Khloe Banks led off the game with an infield single, before Moriah Polar joined her after reaching on an error. Freshman, Anna Moore, then hit one over the fence, originally called a home run, but was brought back after she passed the preceding runner on the bases. The official ruling was a single with two of the original three runs scoring.
The Boilers took a 2-0 lead, and added one more in the inning after a walk from Haley Painter who then scored on a double from Julia Gossett.
In the second, Ohio State added one run back on a dropped ballfrom the Boiler first baseman, which allowed a Buckeye to come around and score. The Buckeyes continued to score in a similar manner in the third, plating two more runs on the back of two more Purdue errors.
Through two and a half, the Buckeyes scored three runs on no hits. In the bottom of the third, the Boilers broke the game open, plating four runs on four hits and one Buckeye error.
Bella Douglas led off the inning being hit by the pitch, before Delaney Reefe added another runner aboard as the Buckeye pitcher was called on an illegal pitch. With one away. Kylie Franks hit her first double of the season, scoring the first run of the inning. Ashlynn Campbell followed it up with an RBI single and was moved over on a fielder’s choice by Banks.
Polar earned her second hit of the day, an RBI single to bring the Boilers ahead 6-3, before Moore plated another run on a single of her own. The Boilers closed out the inning with a four-run lead.
The Buckeyes decreased the deficit in the top of the fourth, earning their first hit of the game, a triple to the left field wall. The run eventually scored on the fourth error of the day for the Boilers, another dropped ball at first.
The Boilers exploded offensively again in the fifth, plating five more runs to bring them out to an eight-run lead. Polar added her third hit of the day with a bases-clearing double. Moore, having already hit one ball out of the park, hit her first official home run of the day, a two-run shot over the left field wall.
Although the Buckeyes earned two back in the fifth and sixth, the deficit was too much to overcome, and the Boilers earned their first series win over Ohio State since 2021.
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