Box Score
Box score
FOND DU LAC, Wis. - Marian University scored
all eight of its runs in the final two innings en route to blanking
Wisconsin Lutheran College 8-0 on Tuesday in the first game of a
Northern Athletics Conference softball doubleheader at Smith
Fields.
Runs seemed tough to come by for the first three innings of the
game. Wisconsin Lutheran threatened to plate runs in the first and
fourth inning, but left a pair of runners on base in each of the
frames.
The Sabres began their scoring surge in the bottom of the fourth
inning when they plated five runs on six hits, while leaving two on
base. After WLC went scoreless in the sixth, Marian responded by
scoring three more runs in the bottom half of the inning to end the
game via run rule.
Freshman Morgan Dittmar (Oostburg, Wis./Manitowoc Lutheran) went
2-for-3 at the plate to lead the Warriors who finished with five
hits in the game. Sophomore Laura Konop (Germantown,
Wis./Germantown) pitched 5.1 innings and was handed the loss on the
hill for WLC.
Marian (6-11, 2-3 NAC) had four different hitters tally two hits
each in the game.
Wisconsin Lutheran (7-8, 5-2 NAC) faces Marian in the second
game of its doubleheader on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
