Softball Extends Win Streak To Six With A Sweep Of Lake Erie

OVERVIEW – Lake Erie

SCORES: Northwood 10, Lake Erie 2 / Northwood 9, Lake Erie 0

RECORDS: Northwood (30-15, 17-7 G-MAC), Lake Erie (3-31, 3-17 G-MAC)

LOCATION: Midland, Mich. – Fisher Stadium

RECAP: Northwood softball swept the visiting Lake Erie Storm Sunday (April 21) in a doubleheader. Northwood's offense came alive for a 10-2 win in game one and a 9-0 win in game two. Both games lasted a minimum of five innings.

GAME ONE HIGHLIGHTS

• Northwood opened the scoring early in the first as Ashlyn Lundquist led the game off with a triple to the right-center gap. Ashley Ziel's sac fly brought her in for NU to jump out to a 1-0 lead.
• The Timberwolves offense came alive in the third. Hits from Lundquist and Ziel allowed Brittany Steimel to hit a sac fly to left to bring Lundquist home, 2-0 NU.
• A gap-shot double from Delanie Gale brought Ziel home to extend it to a 3-0 lead.
• Singles from Jillian Krawczak and Elexia Fuentes scored two more as the Timberwolves jumped out to a 5-0 lead.
• The Timberwolves offense wasn't done. In the fourth, Steimel became the first player since 2008 to have at least 10 home runs in a season (Korey Schluckbier – 11). Her three-run bomb put the mercy rule in effect. Scoring on the HR were Lundquist and Carney Salo.
• The Timberwolves offense tacked on two more with a Krawczak single and a Chloe Cooper sac fly to right to make it 10-0.
• The Storm tagged a two-run shot in the top of the fifth, 10-2. That home run gave us what would be our final of 10-2.
• Emily Cox went the distance again, earning her 15th win of the season.

GAME ONE STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors: Northwood 10/11/1, Lake Erie 2/4/0
• Runners left on base: Northwood 5, Lake Erie 3
• Winning Pitcher – Emily Cox (15-3), 5 IP, 4 H, 2 R (2 ER), 1 BB, 6 K
• Losing Pitcher – Carly Rowland (2-15), 3 IP, 6 H, 5 R (5 ER), 3 BB, 3 K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Lundquist: 3-3, 3B, 2B, 3 R
• Steimel: 1-1, HR (10), 4 RBI, BB, R
• Krawczak: 2-3, 2 RBI,
• Gale: 2-3, 2B, RBI, 2 R
• Ziel: 2-2, RBI, R

GAME TWO HIGHLIGHTS

• Game two was much of the same for the Timberwolf offense, with a few gifts from the Storm defense. In the first, Northwood loaded the bases as Krawczak drove a fly ball to right, which looked to end the inning, but a dropped fly would let Steimel, Ziel, and Lundquist to score, 3-0 NU.
• Back-to-back-to-back singles from Steimel, Madison Jordan, and Gale opened the third to scratch one across for the Timberwolves, 4-0 NU.
• A bases-loaded walk to Chloe Cooper continued the inning pushing another run across, 5-0 NU
• The second bases-clearing fielding miscue from Lake Erie put the Timberwolves out in front 8-0.
• Northwood capped the game, scoring on a wild pitch to make it a 9-0 ballgame after three.
• Kamden Binney threw her first shutout of her career, going the distance for the 9-0 win.

GAME TWO STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors: Northwood 9/5/0, Lake Erie 0/2/3
• Runners left on base: Northwood 4, Lake Erie 2
• Winning Pitcher – Kamden Binney (5-6), 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R (0 ER), 0 BB, 4 K
• Losing Pitcher – Sydney Murray (0-5), 4 IP, 5 H, 9 R (2 ER), 4 BB, 3 K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Lundquist: 1-3, 2 R
• Gale: 1-3, RBI, R
• Ziel: 1-3, R
• Cooper: 0-1, RBI, R, BB

UP NEXT

• Northwood is back in action Friday (April 26) as they travel to Saginaw Valley St. for a doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m.