Great pitching, excellent defense and one good inning at bat were the key ingredients for a 9-1 home victory over Rossville Monday night.

The Lady Oracles also defeated Frankfort 5-4 on the road Thursday, before dropping a pair to conference foe Twin Lakes on Saturday, 4-1 and 5-0.

Against Rossville, senior pitcher Ashley Brodar took a perfect game into the 6th inning before allowing the first base runner on Jessica Rodkey's one-out double to left. Rodkey then scored an out later on a single up the middle by Lindsay Taylor.

But that was all Brodar would allow as she finished with her 13th complete game of the season, striking out eight, while allowing only 3 hits to improve her season record to 7-7.

Delphi (7-11) jumped in front as Kayla Yates led off the bottom of the third inning with a single to center, before advancing to third base on a wild pitch and a passed ball. She then scored on Brodar's RBI grounder to second to put the Lady Oracles on top 1-0.

After the Hornets (1-14) tied the score in the top of the 6th, the Lady Oracle bats' came alive with an 8-run bottom half of the inning to put the game out of reach.

Sam Grimes led off by beating out a bunt single and then stealing second base. She scored the go ahead run one out later on Erika Hawn's RBI single into right field.

Both Brodar and Emily Kayser contributed RBI doubles in the inning as Delphi sent 11 batters to the plate before finally being retired.

Brodar completed her brilliance on the mound with a strikeout for the final out, but was helped by a strong defense as the Lady Oracles committed just one error during the game.

Kayser led the Delphi offense with two doubles and an RBI, while Allison Cook also collected two hits. Brodar led with two RBIs and Yates was the lone Oracle to score two runs as eight different players crossed the plate for a balanced attack. Seven players accounted for Delphi's nine hits.

Vs. Frankfort

In the Frankfort win, the Lady Oracles rallied-from-behind scoring three runs in their last at-bats in the top of the 7th inning.

Trailing 3-2 with one out, Delphi got consecutive singles from both Yates and Brodar, before Cook bunted to reach base safely to load the bases. Alyssa Lewis then singled to center, scoring both Yates and Brodar with the game-tying and go-ahead runs.

Cook later scored a needed insurance run on a grounder to second base off the bat of Amanda Schultz that resulted in a Frankfort (5-6) error.

Brodar again went the distance, striking out eight and allowing only two hits in another strong performance on the mound.

The Lady Oracles collected 11 hits in the contest, led again by Kayser, who went 3-for-4. Yates had two hits including a double and two runs scored, while Brodar had two hits and an RBI. Lewis led Delphi with two RBI's.

Vs. Twin Lakes

Over the weekend, Delphi just could not string enough hits together in the double-header losses at Twin Lakes.

The Oracles stranded eight base runners in the first game, including at least one in every inning but the last. Brodar was effective on the mound, taking a 1-1 tie game into the bottom of the 6th inning, while allowing only one earned run and scattering eight hits. The Oracle offense was limited to only four hits, none of which came in the same inning.

Brodar collected two of the hits and scored the lone Oracle run in the 3rd inning with a lead-off single and two stolen bases before scoring on a TL wild pitch.

The story was much the same in game two as the Lady Oracles were again held to only four hits, and again, none in the same inning. Sophomore pitcher Schultz (0-2) took the loss despite not allowing an earned run as Delphi's defense was also not as strong on this day.

Lewis led Delphi with two singles, going 2-for-3 for the game.

Despite the setback, the Oracles have now won five of their last seven games, and six of the last nine.

Delphi took on conference foe Sheridan in a home-and-home series Tuesday before traveling to Sheridan on Thursday for another 5 p.m. start. The Lady Oracles will then go to Tipton for a double header conference battle on Saturday at 10 a.m., before returning home to face North White May 9 at 4:30 p.m.