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Pointers Stay
Hot at the Plate in Split With Eagles
The top hitting softball team in the conference,
UW-Stevens Point stayed hot at the plate in Thursday�s doubleheader with
UW-La Crosse, but managed just a split in a pair of Wisconsin
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference contests at McCarty Field.
The Pointers slugged out 13 hits in a 7-0
opening game win, but lost the second game 4-1 despite outhitting the
Eagles by a 9-2 margin. UW-Stevens Point is now 18-9-1 overall and 2-4 in
the WIAC, while UW-La Crosse is 15-13 overall and 5-5 in the league.
Mandy Jellish had a big day for the Pointers,
totaling three hits in each game to finish six-for-seven for the day and
raise her league-leading average to .511.
Jellish opened the first game with a double and
scored on a double by Rebekah Bauer as the Pointers had hits in every
inning. UW-Stevens Point scored two runs in the first inning and then sent
10 batters to the plate in a four-run third inning. Kristin Konieczny and
Jenni Van Cuyk were each three-for-four and Konieczny drove in a pair of
runs.
Sophomore Hope Krause turned in her first career
seven-inning shutout and had a career-best six strikeouts in tossing a
five-hitter for the Pointers.
Despite the lopsided win, the Pointers still
stranded 11 runners, including seven in scoring position. In fact, the
Pointers also left nine runners on base in the second game with six in
scoring position.
In the second game, UW-La Crosse took advantage
of seven walks and was seven-for-seven on stolen bases to overcome its two
hits off Pointers� pitcher Ashley Tobalsky. The Eagles scored without a
hit in the first inning and Liz Bradley added a two-out, run-scoring
single in the second inning for a 2-0 lead.
UW-Stevens Point had runners in every inning and
hits in six of the innings, but was unable to deliver in timely fashion.
The Pointers scored on a run-scoring single by Jenny Feidt in the fourth
to cut the lead to 2-1. They had runners at second and third with nobody
out, but Korryn Brooks hit a line drive at shortstop Ashley Scherek, who
doubled the runner off third base to end the inning.
UW-La Crosse had no hits after the third inning
and added two runs in the seventh inning on two walks and back-to-back
squeeze bunts by Barb Evers and Erin Thacker.
Chelsea McIlquham was two-for-three with a
double for the Pointers, who play at league leader UW-Eau Claire on
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