Softball | 3/18/2017 6:17:00 PM
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Box Score 2 CLERMONT, Fla. -- The 24th-ranked Wayne State University softball squad (21-5) concluded its spring break trip with a 10-game winning streak after a pair of victories on Saturday. The Warriors scored five times in the bottom of the first to defeat Bloomsburg (7-8 overall) 5-0 in game one on Saturday. WSU rallied for three runs in the top of the seventh in game two to upend Nova Southeastern (16-17 overall) 4-2.
GAME ONE RECAP
After the Huskies failed to score with a one-out double in the top of the first, Wayne State used four hits (three extra-base) and two Bloomsburg miscues to score five times.
Lyndsay Butler (Cambridge, Ont.) led off with a triple to right center and scored on a double by
Allie Buchanan (Cambridge, Ont.) to left field on an 0-2 offering.
Kristen Lucas (Newmarket, Ont.) reached on an error, and the Warriors used a double steal to put two runners in scoring position.
Brooke Turkalj (St. Jacobs, Ont.) had a sacrifice fly with both Buchanan and Lucas scoring as the ball was dropped. Following a sacrifice bunt by
Kylee Barrett (Croswell, Mich. / Croswell-Lexington),
Emma Adams (Rockwood, Ont.) doubled in Turkalj. After a ground out, Adams scored on a single by
Ashley Messina (Troy, Mich.).
The Huskies had a one-out single in the second and back-to-back two-out singles in the third but could not get a key hit off Butler. The Warrior hurler retired 11 in a row until a one-out single in the seventh, but back-to-back ground outs ended the contest.
IN THE CIRCLE
Butler scattered five hits to improve to 12-4 on the season. She struck out 12 and did not walk a batter, while facing just 26 Huskie hitters.
Mallory Tomaschik (2-5) pitched the first inning for Bloomsburg and allowed five runs (two earned) on four hits. Alyssa Davies hurled the final five innings holding the Warriors scoreless on four hits with two walks. Davies struck out one.
LEADING THE WARRIORS
Buchanan went 3-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI, while Messina was 2-for-2 with an RBI and Butler contributed two hits.
LEADING THE HUSKIES
Maggie Hall and Julia Knight each had two hits.
GAME TWO RECAP
The Sharks scored twice in the bottom of the second on a pair of hits and a WSU error to take a 2-0 lead.
Wayne State responded with a single run in the top of the third. McClounie reached on an error and advanced to second on a one-out ground out. Buchanan followed with an RBI single to left.
The next three innings were scoreless despite the Warriors having two runners on in the fifth and another base runner in the sixth.
Pitcher
Megan Guitar (Croswell, Mich. / Croswell-Lexington) kept WSU in the game by retiring nine straight after the Warriors had cut their deficit in half. Nova Southeastern threatened in the bottom of the sixth as the first two batters reached on a single and a Wayne State miscue. After a fly out and a walk to load the bases, WSU escaped with a 3-2-3 double play.
In the top of the seventh, the Warriors strung together six consecutive singles after the first hitter was retired. Guitar, Butler and Buchanan all had singles to load the bases. A single to right by Lucas tied the game at 2-2, while Turkalj followed with a go-ahead infield base hit. Barrett contributed another RBI base hit.
In the bottom of the seventh, the Sharks made it interesting. After the first two batters were retired, Dakota Villella worked a walk prompting a pitching change with Butler entering the circle. An infield "hit" put runners on the corners, before a strikeout with a bad throw leading to a 2-9-3 out at first to end the game.
IN THE CIRCLE
Guitar improved to 7-0 by limiting the Sharks to two runs (one earned) on four hits in 6.2 innings. She struck out five and walked three. Butler notched her third save of the year by retiring one of the two batters she faced.
Erica Winter (5-6) went the distance for Nova Southeastern. She yielded four runs (three earned) on 12 hits with one strikeout and two walks.
LEADING THE WARRIORS
Butler went 3-for-4, while Buchanan added two hits as every WSU starter had at least one hit.
LEADING THE SHARKS
Lexie Storrer had two hits.
UP NEXT
After concluding the non-conference portion of its schedule with a 21-5 record and a 10-game winning streak, Wayne State embarks on the league part of its schedule next weekend (March 25-26) with twinbills at Tiffin and Findlay.
