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Sunday, May 16, 2:00 Game Luther College punched its ticket for Eau Claire with a 3-0 win over Aurora University at van Steenderen Field in the Whitewater, Wisconsin Regional Sunday afternoon. Lexy Determan, 19-2, won her fourth game in the regional, shutting out Aurora on one hit, and striking out eleven, in her six innings of work. Kim Lambert pitched the final frame for the Norse. Lauren Snyder gave Determan something to work with, socking a two run homer, her seventh of the season, in the third. The Norse went to the long ball again in the fourth, with Tiffany Kruse leading off the inning with a homer to make it 3-0 Luther. Aurora made things interesting in the seventh, scoring once and leaving runners on first and second when Lambert got the final out. Luther advances to the final eight with a 41-5 record.
Sunday, May 16, 12:00 Game Sometimes a win comes in the most unlikely way. The Green Knights lead off hitter, Tracy Palmer, opened the game with her first home run of the season. For the next six innings SNC’s Kayla Krueger and Aurora’s Anna Snyder kept putting up zeros on the scoreboard. Saint Norbert had a runner on second in the third and fifth, and AU had runners on second and third in the fifth, but no one scored. Still trailing 1-0, Aurora got a two out single in the bottom of the sixth, and Shannon Starr followed with her first home run of the season to give the Spartans the lead, 2-1. Snyder set down the Green Knights in order in the seventh. Snyder, 26-6, gave up seven hits but used seven strikeouts to get out of trouble. Krueger, 13-3, gave up five hits, didn’t walk a batter, and struck out four.
Saturday, May 15, 4:00 Game The diamond maxim that “good pitching dominates good hitting” could point to the Saint Norbert’s 2-1 win over UW-La Crosse as an example. UW-L’s Heather Schultz and SNC’s Kari Corbeille matched zeros for five innings. Then UW-L went to small ball; a single, advance on a ground ball and another ground out to eke out a run in the sixth. Stephanie Ortiz evened the score with a two out home run in the bottom half of the inning. La Crosse went down in order in the top of the seventh, and Brieanne Oehlke led off the bottom half of the frame with a walk-off homer, her fifth of the season. Schultz allowed just four hits, including the two home runs, did not walk a batter and struck out five for UW-L. Corbeille, 13-3, picked up her second win of the day with a five-hitter.
Saturday, May 15, 2:00 Game Something had to give. Luther College and Aurora University matched goose eggs until the ninth inning. Anna Snyder of Aurora gave up ten hits and struck out nine in a complete game performance. Lexy Determan and Kim Lambert combined to limit Aurora to three hits while striking out seven. Luther finally got to Snyder in the top of the ninth, in dramatic fashion. Abby Christian hit a two out, two run, home run to score the first two runs, and Tiffany Kruse went back-to-back with her sixteenth homer of the season to account for the third run in the 3-0 Luther win. Lambert, who pitched the final four innings, upped her record to 21-3.
Saturday, May 15, 12:00 Game Saint Norbert pitcher Kari Corbeille, 12-3, worked her way out of a couple of jams and the Green Knights scored twice in the first inning, and that was the recipe for SNC’s 3-2 win over Augustana College. Kayla Krueger tripled in one run in the first, and Brieanne Oehlke singled in the other to give Saint Norbert a 2-0 lead after one. That would be all the scoring until Stephanie Ortiz hit her second home of the season leading off the fifth. Augustana struggled to get to Corbeille. The Vikings had a runner on third in the first and didn’t score; they had a runner on third in the fifth and didn’t score; they had a runner on second in the sixth and didn’t score, and they had runners on second and third in the seventh and didn’t score. Corbeille gave up seven hits, but did not walk or hit a batter.
Saturday, May 15, 10:00 Game Starters Krystina Leazer for Carthage and Heather Schultz for La Crosse locked down the first three innings, each allowing just one hit. Carthage finally broke through in the fourth, combining a single and Alyssa Schrader’s two run home run, number eleven on the year, to take the lead. La Crosse threatened in the fourth, but Leazer got the final out of the inning with the bases loaded. The Eagles finally added a crooked number in the fifth, with help from the Lady Red defense. After a single and error put two runners on, Rachel Weyer drove in both runners with a double. La Crosse added a third run on the second error of the inning. Schultz, 24-3, picked up the win with two innings of one hit relief from Ashley Veroeven.
Saturday, May 15, 9:00 Game (game began Friday, halted due to darkness) It took more than fifteen hours to decide the outcome, but Aurora maintained the lead it had when the game was halted Friday night because of failing light, finishing the seventh inning in a 9-5 win over Augustana. Maggie Cooper doubled in a pair of runs in the top of the first to put Aurora out front. Aurora tacked on another in the third with an unearned run, but Augustana shortened the rally by throwing out a Spartan at home plate. The Vikings took the momentum from that play into their half of the third, with Karlee Quaritsch doubling in a run and a three run home run by Melissa Nelson to give Augustana a 4-3 lead. Aurora tied the game with a run in the fifth, then regained the lead on Shannon Starr’s two run double in the sixth. Tristan Wilcox hit her eleventh home run of the season in the seventh to add three more runs, putting Aurora ahead 9-4. Missy Fobert led off the bottom of the seventh with her fifth homer for the Vikings, ending the scoring. Anna Snyder, 25-5, went the distance for Aurora. Augustana used four pitchers in the game. Starr went 4x5 for Aurora, and Wilcox was 3x4 with two runs scored, three driven in and a walk.
Friday, May 14, 3:00 Game Opportunities were few and far between, but Luther’s Anna Simonson came through with a two run triple in the top of the seventh for the win. Alyssa Schrader put Carthage on the board with her tenth home run of the season, leading off the second. Carthage had another chance in the third, with the bases loaded, but Luther’s Lexy Determan induced a pop up to end the threat. Carthage had runner in scoring position in the fourth, but Kim Lambert, who came in for Determan to start the fourth, struck out the next two batters. Then it was Luther stranding runners and second and third in the sixth as Kelsey Epping pitched Carthage out of it with a pop-up to second. That left it to when Luther got just their third hit of the game, added a walk to make it first and second and set up Simonson’s two out, game winning hit. Lambert upped her record to 20-3, while Epping, who gave up four hits and struck out eleven.
Friday, May 14, 1:00 Game Redlands turned a hit batter and a steal, along with an RBI single by Molly Duran to open the scoring in the second inning. UW-L tied it with a single, sacrifice and Katie Keyes double in the fourth. The Eagles added one more with Jenna Ahnen’s run scoring triple in the fifth, and closed the scoring with an unearned run in the seventh. Heather Schultz, 23-3, allowed just two hits, did not walk a batter and struck out eight. Ahnen went 3x4 with a pair of runs scored and two runs batted in. Redlands ends it season with a 32-14 mark.
Friday, May 14, 11:00 Game Saint Norbert College, 31-7, eliminated Alma College with a 4-2 win. The Scots opened the scoring right away, scoring in the top of the first when, with runners at first and third pulled a delayed double steal. When the throw went through to second base Kelsey Rightenburg scored from third. Saint Norbert combined four hits and a pair of Alma errors to push across four runs in the third to go up 4-1. Stephanie Ortiz had the big hit in the inning, a two run single. Alma got one back in the fourth with a two out triple by Emily Ross and an Erika Brower single, but the Green Knights’ Kari Corbeille, 11-3, set Alma down in order in the final three innings. Alma closed 2010 with a 30-11 record.
Friday, May 14, 9:00 Game
Thursday, May 13, 6:00 Game Redlands broke the scoreless deadlock with three runs in the bottom of the fifth with a bases loaded double by Lizett Casillas clearing the bases. Meanwhile Redlands senior righty Olivia Ellis was cruising along with a no-hitter through five innings. She issued walks to the first two batters in the sixth and an error loaded the bases. Augustana catcher Karlee Quaritsch, the CCIW Player of the Year, emptied the bases with her eleventh home run of the season — the only hit Ellis would allow Augustana in the AC 4-3 win. Kelli Humbert, 2-2, picked up the win with two and thirds innings of two hit, scoreless relief. Ellis, 19-6, was saddled with the loss after giving up just one hit, walking three and striking out five.
Thursday, May 13, 4:00 Game
Thursday, May 13, 2:00 Game Tiffany Kruse showed how she got to be the second leading home run hitter in Division III, smacking two homers and driving in four runs in Luther’s 5-1 win over Saint Norbert in game one of the NCAA III softball championship Whitewater, Wisconsin Regional. The Green Knights opened the scoring with an unearned run in the top of the first, but Kruse hit her fourteenth homer, scoring three runs, after two outs in the bottom half of the inning. With the power switch on, junior right fielder Bre Twait hit her seventh home run of the season to put Norse up 4-1 in the second. Kruse went yard again in the third to end the scoring. Lexy Determan pitched two hit ball over the first four innings to improve her record to 18-2, with one hit relief help from Kim Lambert. |
