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Tobalsky Earns
Win and Save Against Blue Devils
Ashley Tobalsky pitched a five-hit shutout in
the opening game and then closed out the second game for a save as the
UW-Stevens Point softball team took two games from UW-Stout on Saturday at
McCarty Field.
Tobalsky matched a season-best with nine
strikeouts in a 5-0 first game victory and then struck out two batters in
the seventh inning of the second game to close out a 6-2 triumph.
UW-Stevens Point is now 23-14-1 overall and 5-9 in the Wisconsin
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, while UW-Stout fell to 8-26 overall
and 3-13 in the league.
The Pointers were scheduled to conclude the
regular season Sunday at home against UW-River Falls, but the games have
been moved to Monday at 3 p.m. due to impending poor weather.
The win was Tobalsky�s second complete game
shutout this week after blanking UW-Oshkosh on Wednesday. She allowed the
five hits in five different innings and recorded six of her first seven
outs via strikeouts.
UW-Stevens Point struck for four runs in the
second inning as Kristin Konieczny and Jenni Van Cuyk each had run-scoring
singles and Mandy Jellish ripped a two-run double. Laura Van Abel reached
on an error and scored on a passed ball in the fifth inning.
In the second game, UW-Stout went ahead with a
two-out triple by Savanah Oeltjen in the second inning, but the Pointers
struck for four runs in the bottom of the third. Jackie Berger tied the
game with a run-scoring single and Jellish scored on a wild pitch. Laura
Zierler then drove home two runs on a two-out single.
Berger scored on an error and Konieczny hit a
sacrifice fly in the fifth as the Pointers plated two more runs for a 6-2
advantage.
Michelle Holberg entered the game in relief and
struck out three over two and two-third innings for the win. Tobalsky
entered the game in the sixth as UW-Stout had runners at second and third
with one out, but it took her one pitch to work out of the jam, getting
the Blue Devils to ground into a double play.
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