MOUNT VERNON – Mount Vernon pushed across two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and beat Marion, 5-4, Thursday night in a Wamac Conference softball game.

Michaela Martin laid down a squeeze bunt to end the game after batters reached base in the inning on an error, a single and a double.

Martin also was the winning pitcher.

Kylea Weber was 4-for-4 for Mount Vernon, scored three runs and had an RBI triple.

Marion's Leah Smith and Beth Knapp each went 2-for-4. Mikayla Goemaat was the losing pitcher.

Mount Vernon (22-6) is ranked ninth in Class 3A. Marion is 11-14, 5-10 in the Wamac.

MARION (4)
Leah Smith, ss, 4  1  3  1 , Allison Scott, rf, 3  1  2  0 , Beth Knapp, 3b, 3  0  2  1 ,  Amanda Sahm, dp, 3  0  1 0  ,  Paige Perkins, c, 2  0  0  0 ,  Michalyn Mohr, 1b,4  0  1  1, Lauren Rausch, 8, 2  1  1  0 ,  Kaitlyn Nathem, lf, 2  1  1  1 ,  Haley Vanourney, 2b, 3  0  0  0 , Mikayla Goemaat, 0  0  0  0


MOUNT VERNON (5)
S. Ryan, cf, 4  1  1  0,  K. Weber, 2b, 4  3  3  0,  K. Martin, 1b, 3  1  1  2,  M. Wieditz, c, 4  0  1  1,  M. Martin, lf, 4  0  1  1,  H. Wieditz, dp, 3  0  0  1,  J. Pisarik,p, 2  0  0  0,  M. Foxen,rf, 3  0  0  0, M. Chapman, ss, 3  0  0  0, K. Dixon,3b, 0  0  0  0

Mikayla Goemaat (7) ,  J. Pisarik (4) Martin (3);  L-Goemaat,  W-Martin