PLYMOUTH, Wis. (WLCSports.com) - Wisconsin Lutheran College concluded its Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference road schedule with a doubleheader sweep over Lakeland on Saturday at Muskie Softball Field. The Warriors took both games from the Muskies by scores of 7-5 and 10-9.
WLC capitalized on a dropped fly ball in the first inning of game one to take a 1-0 lead. LU evened the score with a RBI groundout in the bottom of the opening frame.
Three runs came across to score in the third on junior
Maddy Chestolowski's (Appleton, Wis.) bases-clearing base hit and throwing error for a 4-1 lead. Lakeland got a run back, unearned, in its half of the third on a sacrifice fly.
Three straight two-out singles in the fourth inning, including RBI from juniors
Lexi Martin (Westfield, Ind.) and
Ashley Corley (Plainfield, Ill.) put Wisconsin Lutheran ahead 6-2.Â
Chestolowski leadoff the fifth inning with a solo home run, her first of the season, for a 7-2 lead. The Muskies plated three runs on three hits in the sixth for the final runs of the game.
The Warriors received two each hits from Chestolowski, Martin, and sophomores
Gwen Malecke (Gilberts, Ill.) and
Olivia Krieser (Stoughton, Wis.). Chestolowski drove in three runs. Sophomore
Callie Terrill (Minooka, Ill.) won for the fourth time in the circle, allowing four runs, three earned, over 5.0 innings.
An inside-the-park grand slam from Corley in the first inning of game two gave WLC an early four-run lead. Back-to-back RBI ground outs from Martin and Corley in the second extended the margin to 6-0. In the fourth inning, Martin made it 7-0 with a RBI double.
LU got on the board in the fourth inning with four runs on four hits to trim its deficit to three runs. The hosts tallied an additional four runs on three hits in the fifth to jump ahead unexpectedly 8-7.
Corley knotted the game at 8-8 in the sixth with a RBI single, and Wisconsin Lutheran went in front 10-8 in the seventh on a RBI single from junior
Briana Vilches (Fontana, Calif.) and a solo home run from sophomore
Taylor Peterson (Beloit, Wis.).Â
The Muskies' final run came on a two-out double in the seventh, but the tying run was left stranded at second when the game ended on a flyout to left.
Freshman
Emily Cardenas (Lake Stevens, Wash.) led the Warriors with three hits and four runs. Martin, Corley, Vilches, and Peterson posted two hits apiece, while Corley tied a school record with six runs driven in. Terrill earned her second win of the day in the circle with 2.0 innings pitched and one run allowed.Â
WLC (13-25, 6-16 NACC) closes out its 2023 season tomorrow with a 12 p.m. NACC doubleheader against St. Norbert (13-24-1, 7-14-1 NACC) at Neumann Family Field. Live stats will be available at WLCSports.com.
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