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Pointers Wrap Up
Successful Trip With Victories
Freshmen pitchers Ashley
Tobalsky and Allison Dorn both turned in impressive performances as the
UW-Stevens Point softball team wrapped up a successful spring trip with
victories on Friday at Kissimmee, Fla.
Tobalsky retired 14 of the
last 15 Pacific Lutheran (Wash.) batters in a 5-2 win over the Lutes and
then worked out of a bases loaded jam in the bottom of the seventh to
preserve a 4-3 win over Washington & Jefferson (Pa.) in the second game.
UW-Stevens Point concluded its trip with an 8-2 record, suffering both
losses by one run.
Rebekah Bauer had a
run-scoring single in the first inning and Jenny Feidt drove in two runs
with a single in the third inning as the Pointers built a 3-0 lead against
Pacific Lutheran. After the Lutes got two runs in the bottom of the third,
UW-Stevens Point added runs in the fifth and sixth on two-out hits by
Bauer and Chelsea McIlquham.
Tobalsky allowed six hits
and no walks while striking out five in the complete game victory.
The Pointers got out to a
quick start against Washington & Jefferson as Mandy Jellish and Laura Van
Abel led off the game with consecutive doubles and Bauer drove in a run on
a groundout. The Presidents got an unearned run off Dorn in the fourth,
but the Pointers added a pair of runs in the sixth when pinch hitter
Michelle Holberg hit a bases loaded groundball to the shortstop, who
overthrew home plate allowing two runs to score.
Van Abel finished three-for-four
and Korryn Brooks was two-for-three for the Pointers.
Dorn pitched four and
one-third innings with no earned runs, four hits and seven strikeouts in
her collegiate debut. Tobalsky earned the save, striking out six batters,
including the game-ending out when the Presidents loaded the bases in the
final inning.
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