Softball Splits Series Versus Tiffin On Chilly Day In Midland

OVERVIEW – Tiffin

SCORES: Northwood 3, Tiffin 2 / Northwood 3, Tiffin 7

RECORDS: Northwood 29-20 (12-8 G-MAC)/ Tiffin 18-23 (10-10 G-MAC)

LOCATION: Midland, Mich.- Fisher Stadium

RECAP: Northwood softball played the Dragons of Tiffin Friday (April 21). The Timberwolves would take game one in dramatic fashion behind Halye Frank's walk-off three run homer. The Dragons then took game two behind a homer in the seventh, 3-7.

GAME ONE HIGHLIGHTS

• A true pitcher's duel with Hailey Leister on the mound for the Timberwolves went scoreless through the first five innings.
• The Dragons would be the first to crack the armor of the opposing pitcher. Tiffin opened the scoring with a two-out two-run homer just inside the left field foul pole to take the lead, 0-2 TU.
• Moving to the seventh down 0-2, Northwood's first two batters would ground out and pop out. Down to their final out the Timberwolves rallied with a single to left by Lauren Bennett and a double off the top of the right-centerfield wall by Jillian Krawczak.
• Frank, in dramatic fashion, came up with runners on second and third and two-out. She then lasered one over the left field wall to walk it off for the Timberwolves, 3-2. This was Frank's third home run of the year.

GAME ONE STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors: Northwood 3/5/1, Tiffin 2/6/1
• Runners left on base: Northwood 5, Tiffin 5
• Winning Pitcher – Hailey Leister (19-8), 7 IP, 6 H, 2 R (2 ER), 1 BB, 6 K
• Losing Pitcher – Claire Feldkamp (11-11) 6.2 IP, 5 H, 3 R (3 ER), 2 BB, 8 K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Frank: 1-4, HR, 3 RBI, R
• Bennet: 2-3, R
• Krawczak: 1-2, 2B, R

GAME TWO HIGHLIGHTS

• The Dragons jumped out to the early lead in the first. A solo homer to left put them up 0-1.
• Ashley Ziel gave Northwood the lead right back with her team-leading eighth bomb of the year. Her two-run blast to left in the first puts her in a tie atop the G-MAC home run leaders and is the most by a freshman, 2-1 NU.
• The back-and-forth offense continued as the Dragons took the lead back on another two-run blast to center in the second, 2-3 TU.
• In the fourth, Gianna Fantin's bunt single to lead off the inning resulted in a throwing error allowing her to get to second. Another fielding error one batter later put runners on the corners with no outs. Gabby Schloop would then tie it up with a sac fly to center, 3-3.
• TU rallied in the seventh via a single, single, double sequence to score one before a towering three-run homer broke the game open for the Dragons, 3-7 TU.
• The Timberwolves would later come up empty in the seventh, falling 3-7 to Tiffin.

GAME TWO STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors: Northwood 3/7/0, Tiffin 7/11/2
• Runners left on base: Northwood 5, Tiffin 5
• Winning Pitcher: Claire Feldkamp (12-11) 5 IP, 4 H, 2 R (2 ER), 0 BB, 2 K
• Losing Pitcher: Brittani Mutter (3-5) 4.1 IP, 7H, 4 R (4 ER), 0 BB, 2 K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Ziel: 2-4, HR, 2B, 2 RBI, R
• Fantin: 2-3, R
• Bennett: 1-3 , 2B

UP NEXT

• Softball is set to take on Saginaw Valley St. Monday (April 24) in a doubleheader starting at 3 & 5 p.m.