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Pointer softball ends season with sweep
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On April 27, 2008, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point softball team won both games in a doubleheader against UW-Superior.
The Pointers took an early lead in the top of the first inning in the first game when Chelsea McIlquham hit a grand slam over the right field fence. In the bottom of the first, the Yellowjackets answered back with a three-run shot of their own over the left field fence making the score 4-3.
Undaunted, the Pointers scored two runs off an RBI single off the bat of Korryn Brooks in the second inning. Brooks then stole home in a double steal attempt, making the score 7-3.
Both teams remained scoreless until the bottom of the fourth when the Yellowjackets scored a pair of runs cutting the Pointer lead to two.
Hope Krause received the win; she pitched a complete game with three strikeouts.
Again, the Pointers scored early in the second game with back to back home runs. Laura Van Abel hit a solo home run to centerfield which gives her a career total of 14 home runs, breaking a school record for total home runs. Kim Liegel hit her first career home run to center field, advancing the score to 2-0. An RBI double off the bat of McIlquham to extend the Pointer lead to 3-0.
The Pointers continued to score as Liegel hit a two-run single with bases loaded to make the score 5-0. A wild pitch and a sacrifice fly gave the Pointers a 7-0 lead. The Yellowjackets scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the second putting them on the board for the first time. A Yellowjacket home run in the bottom of the third cut the lead with a score of 7-3.
Both teams were scoreless until the sixth inning when the Pointers scored three runs off an error and two-run single from the bat of McIlquham advancing their lead to 10. The rest of the game would remained scoreless as the Pointers finished their season with a 10-3 win.
Kayla Kastenmeier reveived the win with seven strikeouts in five innings.
The Pointers end the season with a 23-9 overall record and 8-6 conference record. The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is scheduled to take place at Zenoff Park May 3 and 4 beginning at 9:00 a.m. Due to large number of cancellations of conference games this season, the WIAC will poll all the conference coaches tonight and decide on the seeding for the conference tournament by noon May 1.
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