BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University softball team ended the 2025 season on a successful note, executing in all phases of the game in a 3-0 win over Robert Morris University Saturday afternoon (May 3). The non-conference game was held at a soggy Meserve Field.

Hannah Hunt paced the Falcons (16-36) at the plate. The junior was 3-for-3 with a home run, her second round-tripper of the week. Classmate Ashley Chevalier and sophomore Taylor Behrendt each drove in a run as well, while Morgan Beckham and Mackenzie Krafcik combined on a two-hit shutout.

Beckham, a freshman, allowed just a pair of singles before leaving with two outs in the fourth. Krafcik, a junior, came on in relief and retired 11 of the 12 batters she faced, picking up the win with 3 2/3 innings of no-hit ball.

Krafcik was as efficient as can be, throwing 26 of her 34 pitches for strikes and picking up her eighth win of the season.

Sophomore Peyton Steffes played a huge role in manufacturing the Falcons' first run of the game, drawing a second-inning walk and utilizing her speed to do the rest.

The Colonials (27-16) put two runners on base in three of the first four innings, but did not have a runner advance past second in the entire game.

Due to rain on Friday night and Saturday morning, first pitch was delayed for over an hour and a half, and the teams played just one game of the originally-scheduled doubleheader.

— BGSU Softball (@BGSUSoftball) May 3, 2025

NOTE OF THE DAY
• The 2025 Falcons surpassed the win total for the previous two seasons combined. BGSU went 16-36 this season after going a combined 15-79 in the 2023 and '24 campaigns.

ALSO NOTEWORTHY
• BGSU had just four seniors on the 2025 roster. Two of those four players did not see action this spring, and only one senior played in any games after March 8 (scroll to the bottom of the page for additional information on this topic).

Honored to have Abbey Hutter, mother of our very own Katie Hutter throw the first pitch for our Strike Out Cancer Game! Abbey was diagnosed in August 2021, but after rounds of treatment she has been cancer free since June 2022!

We are so proud of you Abbey! 🩷 #noonefightsalone pic.twitter.com/Th5jtdU6Xp

— BGSU Softball (@BGSUSoftball) May 3, 2025

BGSU-RMU – HOW IT HAPPENED
• Kaylyn Hopf led off the game, which began over 90 minutes after the originally-scheduled start time, by walking on four pitches, and Anna Resnik followed with a line-drive single up the middle. But, Falcon freshman Morgan Beckham then struck out the three and four hitters in the lineup, getting both Courtney Poulich and Mary Brant swinging, and a liner by Alaina Koutsogiani was hit directly to center fielder Hanna Massaro for the third out.
• Hannah Hunt led off the Falcon first with a line-drive single, and Addie Martin bunted her to second. Hunt reached third on a groundout, but was stranded there as RMU starter Kaitlyn Molitoris got an inning-ending foul pop.
• The Falcons took the lead in the second inning, thanks to 'small ball' and the speed of Peyton Steffes. The sophomore led off the inning with a walk, and Kendall Mathews laid down a sacrifice bunt – one of four sac bunts for the Falcons in the game. On the play, Steffes advanced from first all the way to third.
• Then, Ashley Chevalier bunted as well, and on the throw home, Steffes eluded the tag. The successful suicide squeeze gave the Falcons a 1-0 lead.
• RMU got a pair of two-out baserunners in the third, as Poulich was hit by a pitch before Brant singled through the left side of the BG infield. But, Beckham got Koutsogiani to hit a fly ball to Massaro in center.
• And, three pitches later, the Falcons had doubled the lead. Hunt turned on a Molitoris offering and drove the ball over the fence in left for a leadoff homer, her second of the week and fourth of the season.
• Jess Matheny walked to lead off the fourth. Left fielder Mathews made a nice running catch of a Sequoia Dunlap drive, but Katlyn Jardine was hit by a pitch to put two runners on with one out.
•Mackenzie Krafcik entered the fray and needed just one pitch to escape the inning. Logan Black hit a ball back to the circle. It was deflected by Krafcik, but continued toward second, where Hunt grabbed the ball and flipped it to shortstop Cameron Kaufman. Kaufman fired to first in time to complete the twin killing.
• The Falcons added to the lead in the fifth. Delaney Davis greeted relief pitcher Madelyn Coleman with a leadoff single up the middle, and Hunt followed with a bloop single that went just over the glove of the leaping Coleman. Martin's second sac bunt of the game moved the runners, and Taylor Behrendt followed with a single up the middle that plated Davis with the Falcons' third run.
• With two outs, Steffes drew her second walk of the game to load the bases, and pinch-hitter Scarlet Anderson gave a ball a ride, but it was caught in left.
• Krafcik struck out Koutsogiani to begin the sixth, but the RMU batter reached base when the ball got away. But, a pair of ground balls to short produced three outs, as after a fielder's choice, Kaufman fielded Dunlap's grounder, stepped on second and fired to Behrendt at first to end the inning.
• The Colonials got a two-out baserunner in the seventh, but Resnik's liner was hit directly at left fielder Mathews, who made the catch to seal the shutout win.
• Hunt, as mentioned, led the Falcons at the plate, with three of BG's five hits. Behrendt had an RBI single, while Davis had a base hit as well. Steffes walked twice and scored the game's first run.
• Beckham allowed just two hits before leaving with one out in the fourth. She walked three batters and had three strikeouts.
• Krafcik faced just one batter over the minimum in her 3 2/3 innings of relief. The junior needed just 34 pitches, with 26 strikes.

UP NEXT
• For the Falcons, Saturday's game concluded the 2025 season.
• BGSU, as mentioned, had four seniors on the roster, and only one of those four saw action after March 8.
• At the plate, players with eligibility remaining combined for...
    • 1,339 of the team's 1,362 at-bats (98.3%);
    • 217 of the 219 runs scored (99.1%);
    • 197 of the Falcons' 198 RBI (99.5%); and
    • 360 of the 361 hits (99.7%).
• In the circle, players with eligibility remaining combined to pitch 316 1/3 of the 328 1/3 total innings (96.3%), including all 167 2/3 innings in Mid-American Conference play.
 

Gallery: (5-3-2025) 050325 sb v Rob't Morris (Drake Harlett)

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