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Scot Rewind: Softball Wins Program Record 12th Straight Game

2019 Softball Team Photo
Wooster won 12 straight games during the 2019 season.

Welcome back to the Scot Rewind, where WoosterAthletics.com is taking a look back at a big win, a monster individual performance, or a significant milestone corresponding with each week of the 2020-2021 academic year. This week's selection is a recent one, as two years ago today, The College of Wooster's softball team won its 12th straight game against Denison University in game one of a doubleheader. Here's a look at the program's record winning streak.

Heading into game two of a doubleheader at Ohio Northern University on March 27, 2019, Wooster's record sat at 8-7. It didn't take long from there for the Fighting Scots to get rolling, as Wooster scored at least one run in each of the first six inning of its 7-3 win in the nightcap. Emmalee Cooke made things happen atop the lineup with a 4-for-5 performance with two doubles and one RBI. She scored every time she reached base, finishing with four runs and one stolen base.

Cooke's performance was a sign of things to come, as the then-sophomore hit an electric .488 (20-for-41) during the 12-game winning streak, scored a team-leading 16 times, clubbed eight doubles, and tallied eight RBI.

Up next was a key North Coast Athletic Conference doubleheader against Wittenberg University, and Wooster picked up its first series sweep against the Tigers since 2005 with 6-2 and 7-4 victories. Molly Likins and Grace Randall, first-years at the time, combined for seven hits and five runs.

On April 6, Wooster improved to 4-0 in NCAC play, thanks to a 7-5 and 7-2 sweep over Kenyon College. Cooke and junior Kendall Lloyd combined to go 10-for-15 at the dish, while sophomore Heidi Likins contributed four base knocks and a co-team-leading two RBI.

The next day, Wooster made quick work of John Carroll University. In game one, sophomore Marissa Norgrove fired a five-hit shutout during the Scots' 4-0 win. A pair of milestones took place during game two, which went Wooster's way, 10-1. Junior Marina Roski hit her second home run of the season, which gave her sole possession atop the program's career home run list with 12. The game also saw the eighth no-hitter in program history turned in, and the first since alumna Maddy Chase's perfect game against Wentworth Institute of Technology in 2015. First-year Katie Agatucci allowed one unearned run in the first inning, but did not allow a hit in her complete-game, five-inning performance.

Cooke's sixth-inning sacrifice fly proved to be the difference in a 3-2 win over Oberlin College in game one of a doubleheader on April 9, but Wooster had work to do in the nightcap, as the Yeowomen led 6-2 after five innings. Heidi Likins' two-run round-tripper pulled Wooster within 6-4 in the sixth. In the seventh, the Scots rallied for a three-spot, behind an RBI double from Molly Likins, first-year Gabby Lakes' opposite-field RBI single, and Roski's RBI single. Sophomore Olivia Johnson kept the Yeowomen perplexed at the dish during Oberlin's last ups, with a foul out and two strikeouts putting the exclamation point on a ninth straight victory.

Wooster entered its twin bill with Muskingum University on April 11 looking to surpass the 2001 and 2005 teams' program record of nine straight wins. Consecutive win No. 10 wasn't looking very promising come the sixth inning, as the Scots trailed 3-0 and had just three hits to that point. That quickly changed, as the first five Scots to bat in the inning reached safely, with Lakes' two-run two-bagger staking Wooster to a 4-3 lead. Three batters later, Johnson plated Agatucci, and in the seventh, Randall's base knock led to another insurance run in an eventual 6-3 win. The nightcap went extra innings, and Lloyd's RBI single in the ninth held up in Wooster's 6-5 win.

The Scots' had one more win in the cards, as Molly Likins' fifth-inning double broke a 2-2 tie in game one of Wooster's doubleheader against Denison on April 13. That win marked Wooster's 20th of the season, and the Scots went on to win a program-record 26 games in 2019.

Wooster had a remarkable .359/.388/.511 slash line during the 12-game winning streak, while the pitching staff was equally as impressive with a 1.50 ERA in 84 innings of work. Johnson went 7-0 during the streak with a 1.24 ERA, and she fanned 49 batters in her 45 innings of work, all while holding the opposition to a .233 average.

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