CHARLOTTE - - Powered by four home runs, including a grand slam from redshirt senior catcher McKayla Timmons, the Ball State softball team closed play in the Charlotte Invitational with a 12-1 (5) victory over Albany Sunday morning at Sue M. Daughtridge Field.
While the Grate Danes (0-5) scored the game's first run in the bottom of the second, the Cardinals (7-2) answered with 12 straight over the next three innings to pull off their fourth run-rule victory in the last six games.
Ball State scored its first three runs in the top of the third, with the first coming on an error and the final two on an RBI single up the middle from junior pitcher Ella Whitney.