CLINTON, S.C. – Northern Kentucky University Norse Softball continued a hot start to the season on Saturday by repeating their results from Friday and improving to 4-0 in 2025. The Norse outscored their opponents 21-4 on Saturday, dominating on both ends. Morgan Gerak's squad's 4-0 start marks the first time in the Division 1 Era that NKU has accomplished that feat. 2025 marks the first time that the Norse have won their first four games since 2005, a squad that won its first 55 games. 

THE BASICS (GAME ONE)
FINAL SCORE: Northern Kentucky – 10, Morehead State– 0 (five innings)
LOCATION: PC Softball Complex - Clinton, S.C.
RECORDS: NKU 3-0 (0-0 HL), MSU 0-4 (0-0 OVC)
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
- Olivia Pastin went yard for the first time this season, hitting a two-run shot in the fifth inning. She finished 2-3 on the day and also drew a walk. 
- Alicia Flores allowed just three hits and a walk in 4.1 innings. Freshman Kyndall Ford relieved her in the fifth and threw 0.2 innings, allowing one hit. 
- Campbell Beatty went 3-4 with a double, two RBI, and two runs.
- Stella Wulker went 2-3 with a double and an RBI single. 
- Lexy Morris hit a two-RBI double in NKU's big fifth inning. 

NORSE NOTES
- After being shut out for the first two innings, NKU got on the board with an RBI single from Emma Ginn in the third. That score held until the fifth, when NKU did a lot of offensive damage. 
- In the fifth, NKU scored nine runs on six hits and an error. Beatty started off the scoring with an RBI single that scored Megan Kincer. Pastin then hit her two-run shot that increased the Norse lead to four, before an Eagle pitching change gave the Norse even more to work with on offense. NKY drew four walks the rest of the way, not including Ginn getting plunked by a pitch immediately following Pastin's homer. Morris and Wulker capitalized on the free bases with hits that brought runs home. Jena Rhoads brought home two runners on a bunt single with a throwing error to follow, and Beatty's double got the Norse to ten runs. Ford and Flores shut down the Eagles in the bottom half of the inning as NKU sealed its third straight win. 

THE BASICS (GAME TWO)
FINAL SCORE: Northern Kentucky – 11, Presbyterian – 4
LOCATION: PC Softball Complex - Clinton, S.C.
RECORDS: NKU 4-0 (0-0 HL), PC 1-3 (0-0 Big South)
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
- Four Norse recorded a multi-hit game, as Campbell Beatty (2-5, 3 RBI), Olivia Pastin (2-4), Brooke Keltner (2-2, 2B, 3 R), and Charly Koeler (2-3), all had great days at the plate. 
- Jena Rhoads (3B) and Emma Ginn (2B) recorded extra-base hits.
- Brooklyn Ballis delivered another complete game win, striking out five and walking zero in seven innings of work. 
- NKU again walked more than they struck out, as they have done in every game in 2025. 
 
NORSE NOTES
- The Norse broke through early as Olivia Pastin and Stella Wulker brought home a run a piece to take a two-nothing lead. NKU would never trail in the game. 
- Wulker brought another run home in the third with a sacrifice fly, and Mack Brow hit an RBI single to make it four-nothing. 
- NKU scored one run in both the fourth and sixth innings.
- After Presbyterian cut the Norse lead to four in the sixth, NKU bounced back in the seventh with a five-run inning on four hits. Morris, Keltner, Koehler, and Beatty all brought runs home in the inning. 

NEXT UP
The Norse will finish up play in the Pinnacle Blue Hose Invitational on Sunday with a 10:00 AM matchup against George Washington. 

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