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Big Innings Key
Pointers' Sweep of Yellowjackets
UW-Stevens Point used a big inning in each game
to sweep a softball doubleheader from UW-Superior and extend its winning
streak to nine games on Sunday at McCarty Field.
The 5-2 and 7-5 wins give the Pointers their
best record after 22 games in school history at 19-3 overall and 4-0 in
the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. UW-Superior is 10-10
overall and 0-2 in the league.
UW-Stevens Point scored all five of its runs
in the opening game in the fourth inning. Trailing 1-0 entering the
frame, Korryn Brooks tied the game with a run-scoring single and Melissa
Boldt put her team ahead with a run-scoring hit. Chelsea McIlquham later
added a two-run single and then scored on a double by Mandy Jellish to
put the Pointers ahead 5-1.
The Yellowjackets rallied with an unearned run
in the sixth, but Pointers� hurler Stephanie Anderson put them away in
order in the seventh to finish with a complete game five-hitter and six
strikeouts. UW-Stevens Point totaled 12 hits in the victory with eight
different players recording a hit.
The Pointers jumped on UW-Superior with four
runs in the second inning of the second game as Brooks led off the
inning with a triple and scored on a home run by Anderson. Pinch-runner
Alina Ziomek scored on an error and Jackie Berger followed with a
run-scoring single for a 4-0 lead.
Another RBI single from Berger put the
Pointers ahead 5-0 in the fifth and Jellish scored on an error later in
the inning for a six-run cushion. UW-Stevens Point needed all of its
insurance runs as UW-Superior tallied once in the fifth and four times
in the sixth, getting a two-run homer from Melissa Kunzelman to pull
within 7-5. However, Pointers� pitcher Hope Krause did not allow another
hit and earned the complete game victory. All five runs allowed by
Krause were unearned as she struck out four and walked none. |
