Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Behind a five RBI game from Taylor Powell in Game Two, the Clarion University women's softball team split a season-opening doubleheader with Minnesota-Morris Monday morning in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
 
Powell, whose five RBIs are the most by a Golden Eagle in a game since 2010, was 2-for-4 with a pair of single in a 9-2 Game Two win. Clarion dropped the opener 3-1 after allowing three unearned first-inning runs.
 
But back to Game Two, Minnesota-Morris (1-5) grabbed a 2-0 lead in the top of the second inning before Clarion got a run back in the bottom of the inning on a Nicole Lindner single to center that scored Amanda Gough, who had doubled.
 
A three-run third inning then gave the Golden Eagles then lead for good, as a Lydia Middaugh one-out triple plated freshman Emily Leininger, who started the inning by reaching on an error. Freshman Megan Anderson then picked up her first career RBI and her first career game-winning RBI with a base hit to center to give Clarion the lead, 3-2. Anderson, who collected her first career hit on the play, went to third when the ball went past the centerfielder for a two-base error. Powell then picked up her first RBI of the game on a ground out making it 4-2.
 
Clarion broke the game open with three more runs in the fourth including a two-out, two-run single to right by Powell that scored Leininger and fellow freshman Kayla Henderson, who both walked in the inning. Middaugh also had an RBI in the frame on a bases loaded fielder's choice that scorer freshman Christina Tressler, who started the inning with her first career hit, a single to left. Henderson was safe at second on the play when the second baseman had trouble pitching the ball to the shortstop.
 
Powell then drove in two more runs in the sixth to put the game away, as her single to center scored Leininger, who had her first career hit, a single to center, to get the rally started, and Middaugh, who reached on a fielder's choice and stole second.
 
The nine runs were more than enough for the Clarion pitching duo of freshman Jessica Rohaus and sophomore Chelsea Zola.
 
Rohaus, making her first career start and first career appearance, got her first career win pitching four innings and allowing two runs, both earned, on three hits and a walk while striking out three.
 
Zola picked up her first career save going the final three innings and allowing two hits and a walk while striking out one.
 
In addition to Powell's 2-for-4 performance, Gough was also 2-for-4 with a double and a triple while scoring a run. Leininger scored three runs and was 1-for-2 while Middaugh was 1-for-4 with a triple, two RBIs and two runs scored.
 
Two errors back-to-back in the first inning after there was one out cost Clarion in the 3-1 Game One loss, as all three Cougar runs came in the first inning against Julie Sokol and were unearned.  

Sokol pitched well enough to deserve a better fate going four innings allowing the three unearned runs on three hits, a walk and a hit batter while striking out six.
 
Shawnna Crago followed with two perfect innings of relief striking out two.
 
Clarion had chances to get back in the game and did score a run in the fourth thanks to two walks, a single by Kirsten Wilcox and a wild pitch that scored Lindner.
 
The Golden Eagles then threatened in the fifth when freshman Ashley Barenchik, who was 2-for-3 in the contest with her first two career hits, led off with a single and Elizabeth Shiring followed with a bunt single with one out. Lindner then had a great at bat fouling off nine straight pitches after two strikes before drawing a walk to load the bases with just one out. But both Powell and Taylor Sherry were called out on strikes on boarder-line pitches with the call third strike on Powell for the second out coming on a 3-2 offering.   
 
Clarion then got runners on first and second in the sixth with just one out, but a pop out and a foul out ended that threat as well.  
 
The Golden Eagles (1-1) are back in action with a pair of exhibition games against Junior College foes Tuesday (Mohawk Valley Community College and Onondaga Community College) before returning to games that count Wednesday with a doubleheader vs. Southern Vermont.
 
NOTES – The last five RBI game by a Golden Eagle was actually two five-RBI games in the same game April 17, 2010, in a 12-3 win over Lock Haven. Rachelle Yarger and Rebecca Lynch each had five RBIs in that contest … Powell's previous career high for RBIs also came in South Carolina when she drove in four vs. Robert Morris (Ill.) March 14, 2012.