Indiana Takes Weekend Series from Penn State

Saturday, March 22

Bloomington, Ind.

2:00 PM

Indiana University

21-8, 0

Penn State (DH)

14-15, 0

Penn State

Indiana

3/22/2025 10:33:00 PM | Softball

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. ––– Indiana bounced back in a demonstrative way on Saturday, winning both games against Penn State in the doubleheader to take the series.

The Hoosiers won the first game, 7-5, and 17-4 in the second game in a five-inning run rule.

With the two wins, Indiana is 22-8 and 2-3 in conference play.

GAME 1 SCORE INDIANA 7, PENN STATE 5
GAME 2 SCORE: INDIANA 17, PENN STATE 4 (F/5)

KEY MOMENTS
• In the first game, Indiana built a commanding 4-1 advantage through the first four innings. Penn State singled through the left side to bring one runner home in the first inning but after that Indiana got RBI from Taylor Minnick, Sydni Burko, Aly VanBrandt and Avery Parker to make it 5-1 by the bottom of the fourth.
• Penn State would cut into the lead on an RBI double from Haylie Brunson and Brunson later scoring on an error to make it 5-4.
• Later in the fifth, Indiana would score on a wild pitch to bring VanBrandt home and then Kinsey Mitchell hit an RBI single up the middle.
• Penn State's Brooke Kloscowicz hit a home run to left field to make the score 7-5, but the Hoosiers would hold on to end the first game of the day with a win.
• The Indiana bats were on fire in game two as Melina Wilkison set the tone with a double to right center to score Avery Parker and tie the game at 1-1.
• Home runs from VanBrandt and Brianna Copeland in the second inning along with home runs from Minnick and Alex Cooper in the third to bring the Indiana lead to 9-4.
• The Hoosiers built on the strong advantage even more with an 8-run fourth inning that culminated with a bases-clearing triple from Melina Wilkison.

NOTABLES
• The two wins give Indiana its first Big Ten series win of the conference season.
• Aly VanBrandt's home run in the second game was her first of her career.
• Indiana had four home runs in the second game of the day with two doubles that were off the top part of the fence.
• Indiana outhit Penn State in the second game, 14-7.
• Copeland and Wilkison each had four RBI in the second game.

UP NEXT
Indiana will head to Columbus next weekend for a three-game series at Ohio State from Saturday to Monday (March 29-March 31).