YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The IUPUI softball team concluded the regular season with a single game at Youngstown State on Friday afternoon. The Jags fell to the Horizon League leader, Youngstown State, 3-2.
 
The Penguins took the lead first in the bottom of the first inning. Sara Fessler scored on a sacrifice fly from Jillian Jakse to take the 1-0 lead.
 
The Jags took the lead in the third inning with two runs on three Penguins' errors. Kennedy Cowan reached on a fielding error from the third baseman which allowed Kendal Calvert to score to tie the game at 1-1. Kayla Freiberg then laid down a sac bunt which then allowed Cowan to score on a throwing error to give the Jags the 2-1 lead.
 
Youngstown State tied the game at 2-2 in the bottom of the fifth frame with an RBI single.
 
After a scoreless sixth inning, the Penguins once again walked it off in the bottom of the seventh inning with one run on two hits.
 
Carly Metcalf took the loss giving up one earned run on six hits in 6.1 innings. Cowan led the Jags at the plate with two hits, one RBI and one run. Calvert, Frieberg, Victoria Sivert, Maicey Bedrick and Kelli Riordan all added one hit each.
 
With the loss, IUPUI will now wait to see their fate in the Horizon League Tournament. They currently sit in seventh, but if Oakland sweeps the three-game series against Purdue Fort Wayne, the Jags would be in contention for the sixth seed. IUPUI finished the 2024 season with a 13-35 overall record and 9-14 mark in league play.