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Wayne State WS 24-24, 9-18 GLIAC
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Winner Saginaw Valley SV 24-23, 15-14 GLIAC
Wayne State WS
24-24, 9-18 GLIAC
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Final
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Saginaw Valley SV
24-23, 15-14 GLIAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Wayne State WS 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 9 1
Saginaw Valley SV 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 7 0

W: Mikayla Alexandrou (8-8) L: Guitar, Megan (15-10)

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Wayne State WS 24-25, 9-19 GLIAC
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Winner Saginaw Valley SV 25-23, 16-14 GLIAC
Wayne State WS
24-25, 9-19 GLIAC
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Final
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Saginaw Valley SV
25-23, 16-14 GLIAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Wayne State WS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2
Saginaw Valley SV 0 1 0 0 3 1 X 5 4 0

W: Anna Conard (12-6) L: Guitar, Megan (15-11)

Game Recap: Softball | | Jeff Weiss, Senior Associate Director of Athletics/Media Relations

Softball Swept At Saginaw Valley To End Regular Season

Warriors do not qualify for the GLIAC Tournament for the first time in 37 years.

UNIVERSITY CENTER, Mich. – The final day of the 2018 regular season for the Wayne State University softball team (24-25 overall, 9-19 GLIAC) was a microcosm of how the 28 GLIAC games went this year.  WSU played well enough to win the first game but couldn't get a timely hit in falling 2-1 in eight innings at Saginaw Valley State University (25-23 overall, 16-14 GLIAC).  In game two, the Warriors scored first, then the Cardinals tied it and later had a big inning (three runs) in claiming a 5-1 triumph.

GAME ONE RECAP

Both pitchers started strong in the opener with SVSU's Mikayla Alexadrou (8-8) and Wayne State's Megan Guitar (Croswell, Mich. / Croswell-Lexington) limiting the offensive chances through the first three innings as Alexandrou retired nine of 12 and Guitar nine of 10 with the help of a double play.

Freshman Bryanna Kressler (Kitchener, Ont.) led off the fourth with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by junior Hannah McClounie (Essex, Ont.).  A single to left by junior Ashley Messina (Troy, Mich.) moved Kressler to third where she scored on a single by freshman Rose Myers (Rochester Hills, Mich. / Rochester) to make it 1-0.

In the bottom of the seventh, Courtney Reeves was hit by a pitch, and with one out, Shelby Misiak singled.  Evy Lobdell followed with an RBI single putting runners at the corners with one out.  However, back-to-back outs ended the threat.

In the bottom of the eighth, Lauren Bachert smacked a solo home run on an 0-2 offering.

IN THE CIRCLE

Guitar (15-10) allowed two earned runs on seven hits in seven innings.  She struck out five and walked one.

Alexandrou surrendered one run on nine hits in eight innings.  She struck out three and walked one, while leaving seven Warriors stranded.

LEADING THE WARRIORS

Kressler, Myers, and sophomore Emma Adams (Rockwood, Ont.) each had two hits.

LEADING THE CARDINALS

Bachert had two of SVSU's seven hits.

GAME TWO RECAP

For the 21st time this year, Wayne State scored in the first inning but for the fourth time this season was unable to come away with the victory.

Senior Kristen Lucas (Newmarket, Ont.) led off the game with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by freshman Rainey Psenicka (Guelph, Ont.).  Lucas went to third on a ground out and scored on a two-out single by McClounie.

WSU would have just one more hit the rest of the game, a one-out single in the fifth by Myers, but she was erased on a ground ball double play.

Lobdell's two-out home run in the second inning tied the game at 1-1.

A double by Lobdell, a sacrifice bunt, and an infield single snapped a 1-1 deadlock.  Back-to-back fielder's choices without the Warriors recording an out led to another run, while a double steal and a throwing error made it 4-1.

Aubree Mouthaan homered leading off the bottom of the sixth.

IN THE CIRCLE

Guitar (15-11) pitched the first five innings allowing four runs (two earned) on three hits.  She struck out two and walked two.  Freshman Presly Buchanan (Cambridge, Ont.) allowed a home run in her one inning of work.

Anna Conard (12-16) retired 18 of WSU's final 19 batters after McClounie's RBI single in the first.  She struck out one and did not walk a batter.

LEADING THE WARRIORS

WSU had three singles in the game.

LEADING THE CARDINALS

Lobdell went 2-for-3 with a home run.

NOTES:  

This is the first time in Gary Bryce's 37 years at the helm, WSU did not have at least a .500 GLIAC record (the 2005 squad went 10-10), and the consecutive streak of qualifying for the GLIAC Tournament ends at 33 years (first GLIAC post-season tournament was 1985).

It is the first losing season for WSU since the 2005 team went 21-22.

Defensively, the Warriors were 8-4 when not committing an error and 16-21 with at least one error in a game.  The fielding percentage was the 14th-worst in program history at .946, along with the 18th-most errors (77), the sixth-most home runs allowed (26), and the eighth-most runs allowed (192) despite playing the fewest games since 2005 (43).

Wayne State compiled a 1-19 record when scoring less than three runs, and had an 18-9 mark when scoring first.

WSU went 4-10 in one-run games and had eight losses by at least five runs.

Offensively, the 2018 squad recorded the fourth highest batting average (.336), the fifth highest on-base percentage (.379) and the eighth-best slugging percentage (.426), while finishing tied-for-seventh in doubles with 79, and tied-for-ninth in fewest strikeouts with 113.

The 24 victories were the fewest since 2005, while the 25 losses were the most since the 2006 team went 36-26.

The team ERA of 2.98 was the fifth-worst in school history, while the opponent batting average of .270 was the sixth-highest allowed by WSU hurlers.

Warrior pitchers allowed 351 hits (ninth most) in the 33rd most innings (319.2), and tied for the fewest shutouts (with 2005 and 2012 teams) at six since 1998.

 
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