WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Rutgers softball split Friday's doubleheader at Purdue taking game one, 4-1, while dropping a marathon 3-2 contest in 12 innings.

Both Ashley Hitchcock and Jaden Vickers when the distance tossing their 13th complete games of the season in their respective outings. Vickers set a new career mark with 17 strikeouts in the nightcap for the most batters fanned in a contest by a Rutgers hurler in game records dating back to 2004.

Rutgers 4, Purdue 1

• Ashley Hitchcock threw her 13th complete game of the season allowing one run on six hits while fanning three. The junior right-hander improved her record to 11-16.
• Seven different Scarlet Knights collected a hit with freshman Maddie Lawson driving in a pair of runs and graduate student Gabrielle Callaway scoring twice.

• The Scarlet Knights platted their first run in the top of the first. After two fly outs to left, Gabrielle Callaway dropped the ball into shallow left and two batters later was driven in on a base hit by Kobie Hura for the early 1-0 lead.
• The Boilermakers walked the bases loaded to kick off the third setting up Maddie Lawson to hit the ball up the middle for a pair of RBIs. The Scarlet Knights also added a run as Callaway came home on a passed ball to put RU up 4-0.
• Purdue had chances for a run in the fifth and sixth. The Scarlet Knights got out of a bases-loaded jam in the fifth, while in the sixth, runners were in scoring position as Ashley Hitchcock retired the ride making a diving catch from the circle on a bunt.
• The hosts did get onto the scoreboard in their final at-bat. Olivia McFadden pushed thru the run on a sacrifice fly.

Purdue 3, Rutgers 2 - 12 innings

• The Scarlet Knights were on the field for three hours and 49 minutes for the most innings played since a 5-4 win over FAU back on March 14, 2018, as the host Boilermakers tied the series up at 1-1.
• Jaden Vickers tossed 11.1 innings throwing 225 pitches and setting a new career mark with 17 strikeouts. The junior lefthander threw her 13th complete game of the year and reached double-figure strikeouts for the fourth time this season and the fifth time in her career. With her 17 strikeouts, Vickers moved into fourth in season strikeouts with 170 opponents fanned this year and seventh in career strikeouts with 255 Ks over the last three years.
• Sophomore Kobie Hura and graduate student Gabrielle Callaway scored both runs for the Scarlet Knights.
• Sophomore Megan Herka went 2-for-3 with a double, with freshman Lily Orozco capturing her first career double pinch-hitting in the seventh.
• Sophomore Kylie Sand extended her on-base streak to 33 consecutive games.

• All three outs in the bottom of the second came with Jaden Vickers catching the Boilermakers swinging at the plate. Purdue, however, also got a trio of hits with Kaeley Hallada collecting an RBI single to give her squad the 1-0 lead.
• Rutgers tied the game in the fourth. Gabrielle Callaway walked and advanced to second off a sacrifice bunt from Maddie Lawson. Taylor Fawcett brought the Scarlet Knight graduate student home on a single to center.
• A pair of infield singles led RU to take the lead in the fifth. Pinch hitter Leilani Chavez singled off the pitcher's glove and Kobie Hura would re-enter the game taking first base. Hura went on to give the Scarlet Knights a 2-1 advantage on a Payton Lincavage single to short.
• Purdue tied the game in the bottom of the seventh. With the bases loaded Rachel Becker flew out to left, but Rylee Platusic managed to tag up at third for the tying run and send the game into extra innings.
• The Boilermakers were limited to one hit in the eighth and went down 1-2-3 in the ninth, 10th and 11th innings with Vickers striking out an additional four batters along the way.
• In the bottom of the 12th, two singles and a hit batter put the hosts all aboard allowing Olivia McFadden to send in the game-winning run with a walk.