Box Score
Box score
MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin Lutheran College fell to
the Northern Athletics Conference-leading Aurora University
Spartans 9-1 on Thursday in the first game of a softball
doubleheader at Warrior Field.
Wisconsin Lutheran held a 1-0 lead through five innings before
the Spartans scored all nine of their runs over the final two
frames to put an end to the Warriors' upset bid. WLC jumped on top
of the Spartans early, plating its only run in the game in the
bottom of the first. Sophomore Emily Foster (Brookfield, Wis./East)
singled home junior Jenny Boelk (Fond du Lac, Wis./Winnebago
Lutheran), who led off the inning with a walk.
The Warriors kept the Spartans off the scoreboard over the next
four innings, but were unable to add to their own 1-0 lead.
Clinging to a 1-0 lead heading into the sixth, Wisconsin Lutheran
gave up a pair of runs, highlighted by a Briana Martin solo home
run, and suddenly saw itself on the short end.
After the Warriors left two runners on base in the bottom half
of the inning, Aurora took advantage of three errors and exploded
for seven runs in the top of the seventh. Briana Martin added to
her highlight reel by hitting a three-run home run in the inning.
Aurora tallied nine of its 13 hits in the final two frames of the
game.
Foster finished 2-for-3 with an RBI for the Warriors. Stephanie
Sack (Granger, Ind./Michigan Lutheran) and Ashley Zautner (Sun
Prairie, Wis./Sun Prairie) had the other two hits in the contest
for WLC. Boelk gave up nine runs, four earned, in 6.1 innings in
the circle. She fanned six and did not walk a batter.
Briana Martin went 2-for-4 with four RBIs and two runs scored
for the Spartans (19-3, 12-0 NAC). Anna Snyder picked up the
victory by striking out 15 and allowing only four hits in seven
innings of work.
Wisconsin Lutheran (8-17, 6-11 NAC) closes out its 2009 home
slate by hosting Aurora in the second game of its doubleheader on
Thursday at 5 p.m. at Warrior Field.
