Wolverines Lose Lead, Fall in Extras at Indiana

Saturday, April 28

Bloomington, Ind.

1:00 PM

Michigan

39-8, 0

Indiana

24-26, 0

Michigan

Indiana

4/28/2018 4:52:00 PM | Softball

Box Score

By: Leah Howard

» No. 15 Michigan could not hang onto a four-run lead as Indiana scored five unanswered in a 5-4, nine-inning loss; it halted U-M's winning streak at 15 games.
» Indiana's Taylor Uden -- older sister of Michigan third baseman Madison Uden -- led off the ninth with a walk-off solo home run.
» Natalie Peters posted three hits; Michigan left 11 runners on base, leaving them loaded in both the fourth and sixth innings.

Site: Bloomington, Ind. (Andy Mohr Field)
Score: Indiana 5, #15 Michigan 4 (9 inn.)
Records: U-M (39-8, 14-2 B1G), IU (24-26, 16-3 B1G)
Next U-M Event: Sunday, April 29 -- at Indiana (Bloomington, Ind.), 1 p.m.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The No. 15-ranked University of Michigan softball team sacrificed a four-run lead in its second series slate at Indiana, falling to the Hoosiers, 5-4, on a walk-off home run in the ninth Saturday afternoon (April 28) at Andy Mohr Field.

The loss snapped the Wolverines' winning streak at 15 games and tightened things up at the top of the Big Ten Conference standings. U-M still holds onto first place with a 14-2 league record but now by just 33 percentage points on Indiana with its 16-3 Big Ten record.

Michigan was just one strike away from finishing the game in the seventh inning when a looped two-out single to shallow left field pushed across the tying run to force extras. Hoosier first baseman Taylor Uden -- older sister of Michigan sophomore third baseman Madison Uden -- completed the IU comeback with a leadoff solo homer to left field in the bottom of the ninth.

The Wolverines held onto a comfortable four-run advantage midway through contest, scoring on an RBI fielder's choice in the second before cushioning their lead with three runs in the fourth. Junior center fielder Natalie Peters, who went 3-for-5 on the day, punched a two-out RBI single through the right side, and, after stealing second base, scored when Uden looped a two-run single over the Hoosier second baseman's head and into shallow right field.

Indiana responded with three two-out runs of its home in the home half of the inning on back-to-back RBI singles into left field to pull within one.

Michigan's offense largely dried up after the fourth. The Wolverines threatened in the sixth, but left the bases loaded for the second time; U-M left 11 total runners on base in the game.

Freshman left-handed pitcher Meghan Beaubien (28-3) took her first loss in two months -- since U-M's last extra-inning contest against Virginia Tech on Feb. 24 -- after allowing a season-high five runs on five hits, three walks and two hit batters. She struck out seven.

Michigan (39-8, 14-2 Big Ten) will take on Indiana in the series rubber match tomorrow (Sunday, April 29) at 1 p.m. at Andy Mohr Field.