WAYNESBURG, Pa. (March 28) – The Waynesburg University softball team hosted Grove City on Saturday for a senior day doubleheader. The Yellow Jackets rode a stellar pitching effort from one of the day's honorees to a 3-1 win in game one, before settling for a split in game two.
 
Senior Autumn Stemple (Morgantown, W.Va. / University) rose to the occasion of facing the number-two hitting team in the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) by twirling a complete-game gem. She allowed seven hits, five of which were singles, and didn't walk a batter to improve to 3-0 on the year.
 
Stemple shut out the Wolverines (12-3, 4-1) through six innings, while the Jacket (16-6, 4-2) bats built up a 3-0 lead.

A two-base error put sophomore Rylee Rohbeck (Oakdale, Pa. / South Fayette) on second base with one out in the bottom of the third. Junior Jamie Kelly (Front Royal, Va. / Skyline) drove in Rohbeck during the ensuing at-bat to put the home team up 1-0.
 
Waynesburg clung to its slim edge until the bottom of the sixth when it collected a pair of crucial insurance runs. Senior Kassidy Trimble (Parkersburg, W.Va. / Parkersburg South) led off by hustling to first on another Grove City error. Two batters later, yet another Jacket senior – Bella DeMark (Carnegie, Pa. / Bishop Canevin) – landed what wound up being the deciding blow when she tripled into right field and doubled her team's advantage to 2-0.
 
Senior Madie Cicero (Willowick, Ohio / Eastlake North) showcased solid fundamentals by grounding out to second to get DeMark home for the day's third run.
 
Grove City refused to go away quietly, however, and scored its first run of the day on a one-out homerun in the seventh. Back-to-back singles brought the go-ahead run to the plate with two outs on the board, but Stemple induced the game-ending groundout to set off a wild celebration from the home team.
 
Six different Jackets combined for seven hits in the victory, including DeMark, who logged a pair of knocks.
 
Game two got off to a very similar start as the opener, as neither team was able to produce any runs through four innings. The score would have stayed tied through five, but a two-out error opened the door for the Wolverines to score four runs and take that 4-0 lead to the sixth.
 
The visitors tacked on three more runs in the sixth to bring about the final score of 7-0.
 
Though she suffered the loss in the circle, sophomore Pressly Meadows (Annapolis, Ohio / Edison) was outstanding prior to the game-changing error in the fifth. She allowed just one earned run over five innings on five hits and three walks.
 
Sophomore Meysa Heitmann (Morgantown, W.Va. / University) collected two hits and a walk to highlight the Jackets' efforts in the late contest. She ran her current hitting streak to 11 games, seven of which have been multi-hit efforts.
 
Waynesburg returns to action on Tuesday, March 31, when it travels for another doubleheader against one of the PAC's top teams in Geneva. First pitch of the twin-bill is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.