Timely hitting and a lot of grit earned The College of Wooster softball team a North Coast Athletic Conference sweep against John Carroll University on Tuesday.
 
Both were walk-off winners with a 5-4 eight inning contest in game one and a 6-5 nine inning affair in game two. 
 
In game one, first-year Larken Koran's first extra-base hit of the season was a big one, as her solo home run forced the game into extras. The Scots then won it in the eighth with a walk-off single from sophomore Jillian Meszaros.
 
In game two, Koran was in the position to walk it off and did just that with a single up the middle.
 
In game one, when Jordan Anderson relieved John Carroll starter Kristin Dems in the second, she shut down the Scots. Wooster did not collect a hit off the graduate student until Koran's game-changing swing.
 
To lead off the bottom of the seventh, Koran got into a 0-2 hole but worked the count to full until she laced the 10th pitch of the at bat over the fence to center field.
 
In the eighth, Meszaros sent John Carroll down in order before first-year Ella McCabe doubled the second pitch she saw leading off the bottom of the inning. After Sage Lammlein got McCabe over on a sacrifice bunt, Meszaros walked it off with a hit to left field.
 
Wooster had an early 3-1 lead after the second inning thanks to an RBI double from Meszaros and a two-run single from Tori Conner.
 
However, John Carroll (12-15, 3-7 NCAC) added their own three-run inning in the fifth. Two base hits took Meszaros out of the game, but she reentered in the sixth. Anderson helped herself at the plate taking new pitcher Kaitlyn Hale yard for a three-run shot.
 
Meszaros allowed just one hit the rest of the way when she came back on the mound in the sixth. She pitched seven innings total and struck out four.
 
If game one wasn't exciting enough, a similar script followed in game two.
 
John Carroll opened scoring with one run in the fourth before Wooster scored three in the fifth thanks to an error that extended the inning.
 
Koran kept the extra base hits going with an RBI double to tie the game at 1-1. Emma Hetkey and Jennings followed with one-run singles to make it a 3-1 game.
 
The Blue Streaks answered with three in the sixth, pushing the starter Conner out of the game. Conner's line was three earned runs and three hits through five innings.
 
Wooster headed to the final frame down 5-3 when another first-year came through for her first home run of the year. After Jennings reached on a single, McCabe sent a 3-1 pitch over the left-center field fence to knot the game at 5-5.
 
Wooster stranded a runner on third to end the seventh and the eighth. In the ninth, Lammlein found herself on third with two outs, but Koran came through hitting a ball up the middle to not only earn her first multi-hit game but the win for the Scots.
 
Meszaros pitched the final four innings, not allowing a hit in extras and collecting her 13th win of the season.
 
Jennings, Meszaros, Koran and Jasmine Mueller all had two hits in game two. Mueller came up before Koran and extended the ninth after getting hit by a pitch.
 
Wooster collects two important NCAC wins to improve to 16-14 overall and 5-5 in the NCAC. Next, Wooster hosts Baldwin Wallace University on Thursday for a non-conference matchup, before returning to NCAC play on Saturday with a doubleheader at Wittenberg University.