Edison’s Ashley Elber is having a stellar freshman season at Baldwin-Wallace, playing for the softball team.

Elber went 7-for-13, for a .538 batting average and the Yellow Jackets won all four games they played, extending their winning streak to five. She also scored six runs, had a double, two home runs and three RBIs to go with a stolen base.

Elber is batting a team-leading .430 (40-for-93) with 26 runs scored, a team-high 40 hits, including 10 doubles, one triple, four home runs, 16 RBIs and five steals. In the field, Elber has a .909 fielding average with just three errors in 33 total attempts.
B-W is currently 21-8 overall.

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New London’s Justina Wise, a freshman pitcher for Baldwin-Wallace, was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Softball Pitcher of the Week.

Wise helped led the Yellow Jackets to a 4-1 record last week, making four appearances, going 3-0 with wins over Hiram College, John Carroll University and Kenyon College. Wise gave up just three earned runs for a 1.31 earned run average (ERA) in 20 2/3 innings. In addition, she struck out 13 batters while allowing just two walks.

For the season, Wise has a record of 8-2 and is second on the team with a 1.97 ERA. She has appeared in 11 games with 10 starts and has allowed 15 earned runs, 50 hits while striking out 41. She has allowed just four walks in 53 1/3 innings.

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Elyria's Caitlin Myor, Baldwin-Wallace's lone senior, finished a solid softball career at Baldwin-Wallace last month.

She earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors and leaves B-W tied as the career RBI leader with 123 (Nicole Loudin 2006).

The Yellow Jackets finished the season with a doubleheader sweep of Wilmington College, winning the first game (7-2) and the nightcap (6-5). B-W finished the season 24-16 overall (10-8 OAC), its first winning season in three years.

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BEREA, OHIO – Elyria's Caitlin Myor and Sandusky's Mackenzie Rohrbacher were named the Ohio Athletic Conference Hitter and Pitcher of the Week, for their play last week during Baldwin Wallace's six-game win streak.

The Yellow Jackets opened last week with a doubleheader sweep at Wooster and then swept twin bills against Heidelberg and Capital.

Myor, a 2008 honorable mention All-OAC selection, batted .579 (11-for-19) with three home runs and six RBIs, which earned her player of the week honors for the second time this season. She currently ranks second all-time in B-W history with 28 homers and 117 RBI.

Myor is already close to breaking her own school-records of 12 homers and 46 RBI in the 2008 season. She also has nine triples and 35 RBIs.

Rohrbacher was a perfect 3-0 for the week with a 0.41 ERA. She struck out 16 batters in 17 innings. For the year, her record is 7-4 with a 2.11 ERA, which includes seven complete games.

The Yellow Jackets have now won 10 in a row and are currently 20-8 overall. They are also in first place in the Ohio Athletic Conference with a 6-2 record.

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