Softball Sweeps Ashland In Sunday Doubleheader

OVERVIEW – Ashland

SCORES: Northwood 5, Ashland 2 / Northwood 6, Ashland 4

RECORDS: Northwood (26-15, 13-7 G-MAC), Ashland (16-21, 9-9 G-MAC)

LOCATION: Ashland, Ohio – Deb Miller Field

RECAP: Northwood softball continued their road trip to Ohio with two games versus Ashland Sunday (April 14). The Timberwolves wound up sweeping the doubleheader taking game one 5-2 and game two 6-4.

GAME ONE HIGHLIGHTS

• Ashlyn Lundquist led off game one with a walk. She would later open the scoring with an RBI single to right from Madison Jordan, 1-0 NU.
• Ashland struck right back with an RBI single of their own, scoring a runner from second, 1-1.
• Northwood rallied in the fifth, a Lundquist lead off single led to another run as she was plated via an Ashley Ziel laser off the left field wall, 2-1 NU.
• Delanie Gale followed Ziel with a left-center double to plate Ziel, extending the lead to 3-1.
• NU's three-run fifth was capped off with a single up the middle by Gianna Fantin, scoring Gale, 4-1 NU.
• Two Ashland defensive miscues led to Northwood scoring another in the sixth. Ziel reached and came around to score on a Steimel single through the right side, 5-1 NU.
• The Eagles added a run in the bottom of the sixth, but Brittani Mutter went the final 1.2 innings to seal it for a 5-2 victory for the Timberwolves.

GAME ONE STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors: Northwood 1/8/0, Ashland 2/5/0
• Runners left on base: Northwood 10, Ashland 5
• Winning Pitcher – Brynn Polega (6-1), 5.1 IP, 4 H, 2 R (2 ER), 3 BB, 6 K
• Losing Pitcher – C. Shaffer (3-7), 3 IP, 6 H, 4 R (3 ER), 0 BB, 2 K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Ziel: 2-4, 2 2B, RBI, R
• Steimel: 2-4, 2B, RBI
• Lundquist: 1-3, BB, 3 R
• Gale: 1-4, 2B, RBI, R
• Jordan: 1-4, RBI
• Schloop: 1-4, 2B
• Fantin: 1-4, RBI

GAME TWO HIGHLIGHTS

• Northwood continued their offensive rallies into game two. In the second, back-to-back doubles from Jordan and Gale gave the Timberwolves the early 1-0 lead.
• Jillian Krawczak's sac bunt put runners on second and third for Karlie Moore to drive Gale home with a groundout to the pitcher, 2-0 NU
• NU capped the second with an RBI double from Schloop to plate Elexia Fuentes for the 3-0 lead.
• Steimel kept the momentum in the Timberwolves favor. An RBI double scoreed Ziel all the way from first following her leadoff single, 4-0 NU.
• A Jordan sac fly plated Steimel to extend the NU lead to 5-0.
• The Eagles would not go quietly. Ashland rallied in the fourth for four runs to bring it within one. Two walks and a double gave them two before a single and fielder's choice made it a 5-4 game.
• Gale pushed the lead back to two with a sac fly the score Ziel in the fifth, 6-4 NU.
• The Timberwolves held on for the 6-4 victory as Emily Cox went the distance to pick up her 13^th win of the season.

GAME TWO STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors: Northwood 6/10/2, Ashland 4/3/0
• Runners left on base: Northwood 5, Ashland 4
• Winning Pitcher – Emily Cox (13-3),7 IP, 3 H, 4 R (3 ER), 3 BB, 4 K
• Losing Pitcher – D. Lis (3-7), 2.1 IP, 6 H, 5 R (5 ER), 1 BB, 0 K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Gale: 2-3, 2 2B, 2 RBI, R
• Jordan: 2-3, 2B, RBI, R
• Ziel: 2-4, 2B, 2 R
• Steimel: 2-4, 2B, RBI, R
• Schloop: 1-3, 2B, RBI

UP NEXT

• Northwood is back in action Wednesday (April 17) as they host Ferris St. in a doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m. in Midland at Fisher Stadium.