Brittany Tyner's bloop-single to right field knocked in the tying and game-winning runs, leading the Delphi Lady Oracle softball team to a 5-4 victory over visiting North White last week.

The win was the Lady Oracles ninth in their past 12 games, and tenth over the last 14 games, improving their season record to 11-12.

It seems that the only opponent that Delphi has not been able to compete with of late is Mother Nature, as the rain over the past week forced the postponement of four games, including games at Frontier, Winamac (double-header) and at home against Northwestern, all non-conference foes.

No make-up dates had been announced as of press time, but with Sectional play beginning on Monday, and with several schools still needing to makeup conference games, it seems unlikely at this point that any of them will be rescheduled.

Against North White, Delphi took the lead early, scoring a run in each of their first two atbats to take a 2-0 lead into the third inning.

Red-hot hitting Emily Kayser doubled to left field with two outs in the first inning, before stealing third base and scoring on Ashley Brodar's RBI single, a hard-liner up the middle.

Kristina Barnard then led off the bottom of the second with a double to left, scoring on Kirsty Flora's single to center.

The Vikings (8-11) then put three runs on the board in the top of the third inning, highlighted by a 2-RBI triple by Whitney Bunch to put North White in front at 3-2.

The Lady Oracles then tied the score in the bottom of the fourth with two outs as Flora singled into right-center, driving in Amanda Schultz, who was pinch-running for Alyssa Lewis, who had reached base safely via fielder's choice.

A Delphi defensive miscue in the top of the fifth inning allowed the Vikings to take a 43 lead as Bunch, this time singled in the go-ahead run with two outs, setting the stage for Tyner's heroics an inning later.

Both Schultz and Barnard led off the bottom of the sixth for Delphi with consecutive walks, before Sam Grimes reached

base safely on a fielder's choice to load the bases for Tyner, whose 2-RBI single landed just inside the foul line in short right field scoring both Schultz and Barnard with the decisive runs.

Brodar (10-7) then closed out the Vikings in order in the seventh, securing her tenth win of the season while pitching her 16th complete game, striking out five while allowing only four hits.

Flora was the lone Oracle with more than one-hit in the contest, going 2-for-2 with 2 runs batted in, while Tyner also shared RBI honors with her 2 game-winning RBI's.

Kayser and Barnard's doubles were the only Delphi extrabase hits, as the Oracles efficiently scored their five runs on just seven team hits. Schultz and Barnard each also had two runs scored to lead Delphi.

Barring any late scheduled make-up games, Delphi will travel to Clinton Prairie on Tuesday (too late for print) before playing the last regular season game at Hoosier Conference rival West Lafayette on Thursday at 5 p.m. The Lady Oracles will then open the North Montgomery Sectional against Clinton Central on Monday, also at 5.