(WILMINGTON, Ohio) - The host Wilmington Quakers get their first win over the Ohio Northern Polar Bears since 2022 and their first home win since 2021 in a doubleheader split.

The Quakers lost the first game 5-2 but returned with a fury to win the second game 19-6.

According to available records, the Quakers' 13-run win is their largest win in program history against a conference foe and sixth largest all-time.

The 19 runs the Quakers scored were the highest in OAC games for the program, surpassing the 15 runs scored against Ohio Northern in 2014, and tied for the third-highest in program history.

GAME ONE

The Quakers jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in the first inning after Kori Cornett scored when the catcher tried throwing out Jocelyn Franz on a steal and threw the ball into center field. Franz would eventually score on a Samantha Schwab single, just out of the reach of the shortstop, Taylor Hilty.

Makenzie O'Neil would go five innings, giving up five runs off 12 hits and a walk.

Audrey Patel would throw two perfect innings in relief.

Five Quakers would tally a hit off Ashley Lenser.

Schwab would have the lone RBI.

Haley Johnson would get two walks and a hit in four plate appearances.

GAME TWO

The Polar Bears would be the ones to strike Belle Baughman first, with a pair of doubles scoring three of the four runs in the opening inning.

The Quakers would get one off Lenser, who would start both games, in the first inning by way of Judaea Wilson doubling home Franz.

The Polar Bears would get two more in the top of the second off Baughman, but after that, Baughman put the Polar Bears' bats on ice. Baughman faced 12 batters, giving up a hit and a walk, and a runner reached on an error in those final three innings.

In the bottom of the second, Rachel Berry draws the Quakers closer with a sacrifice fly, scoring Alasandra Spears.

Entering the bottom of the third, Ohio Northern puts Taylor Keck in the circle, and the Quakers quickly turn the tables on the Polar Bears.

Thirteen Quakers stepped up to the plate, and it all started with Jocelyn Franz sending a Keck 1-1 pitch to the foot of the fence in right field with one out for a triple.

Judaea Wilson sent another 1-1 pitch screaming through the middle of the infield to score Franz, making the game 6-3.

After Sam Schwab gets on with a single through the left side hole and Haley Johnson walks and loads the bases, Alasandra Spears draws a full count and walks on eight pitches, scoring Wilson.

Having seen enough and hoping to stop the Quaker momentum with a Polar Bear 6-4 lead, Ohio Northern Head Coach Summer Collins sends Lenser back to the circle.

But the Quakers did not waver. Lenser had given up eight hits on the day and only yielded four runs.

Inheriting three runners, Lenser stood against the number 7 batter in the inning, Ashley Jo Hardesty.

Hardesty drops the second pitch down the right field line, scoring Johnson and Schwab to tie the game at 6.

With Berry up and runners on first and third, the catcher drops the next pitch and rolls towards the backstop. Spears takes her chance, with Lenser charging slowly off the rubber, and Spears slides safely into home, giving the Quakers the 7-6 lead.

Berry earns a walk on five pitches, putting runners on first and second for Addysen Stevens.

Stevens bunts her way on, beating the throw at first, loading the bases for Cornett.

Cornett would strike out swinging on three pitches for the second out of the inning, bringing up Franz, who would drive home Hardesty on an infield single for the 8-6 lead.

Wilson would step up and send the 1-0 pitch just past a diving Lillie Marker at third, scoring Berry and Stevens to end an eight-run third inning barrage.

The bottom of the fourth looked more like the previous inning than the other nine innings played this day.

With another pitching change, the Polar Bears send up Avery Neth to keep this game 10-6 game close. The Quakers, though, had other ideas, sending up fourteen batters.

After two errors and a walk loaded the bases with one out, Stevens sent a 1-1 pitch to right-center, just over the second baseman, Ava Jolin, scoring Johnson and Hardesty.

Cornett bunted the next pitch, and with Marker and Neth unable to field it, Berry scored from second, putting runners at second and third with one out.

Franz punched the 1-2 pitch through the left side, scoring Stevens, making the lead 14-6.

Two pitches later, with runners on second and third, Wilson sends a routine groundball to second that skips off the glove of Jolin, scoring Cornett and Franz, giving the Quakers a 16-6 lead.

Two batters later, the Quakers would see a 1-2 pitch graze the arm of Spears, loading the bases with two outs.

Hardesty would step up and send the first pitch she saw to short center field for a single that scored Wilson.

Berry takes the first pitch and sends a routine grounder to third, but the first baseman, Allie Wilson, cannot field the throw cleanly, allowing Johnson and Spears to score to end the nine-run fourth inning.

Franz went perfect in the second game, going 4-4, with a triple, scoring three runs and driving in two.

Wilson would have four RBI, going 3-4, with a double and scoring two runs of her own.

Johnson would draw two walks in four plate apperances and Spears would draw a walk and a hit by pitch in four appearances.

WHAT'S UP NEXT

The Quakers will welcome the Marietta Pioneers to Wilmington for a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 1:00 p.m.