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Wayne State Takes
Two From Eagles Softball Team |
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Detroit is known as the Motor City. Wednesday (Apr. 23), in the shadows of Ford and General Motors, the Ashland University softball team stalled out thanks to Wayne State. Two of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference’s three nationally-ranked softball teams squared off Wednesday when Ashland, ranked 21st, met Wayne State, listed 15th, in a GLIAC doubleheader. The first game went to the Warriors, 2-1. The home team followed that up with a 1-0 triumph. WSU is 31-9-1, 12-2 in league play. AU is 35-13, 11-5 in the conference. Wayne State scored once in the third and once in the sixth in the first game. The first of those runs was unearned, the Eagles dropping a fly ball to shortstop to let in the game’s first score. The second run scored on a single by Natalya Natyshak, who was 2-for-3. AU’s run came in the top of the seventh on a sacrifice fly by junior pitcher Josie Nelson. Nelson pitched a complete game in taking the loss. She’s 21-5. Nelson allowed seven hits, walked one and struck out nine. Meghan Misiak got the win, improving to 20-5. She doled out five hits to go with two walks and three strikeouts. Nicole Place, a sophomore, and junior Colleen Devery each went 2-for-3. In the second game WSU’s Sue Verbeem homered to left in the sixth inning for the only run of the contest. That four-bagger made a loser out of junior Leslie Eberhardt. Eberhardt allowed just four hits. She didn’t walk a batter and struck out four while falling to 14-8. The Eagles had four hits off of Misiak, now 21-5. The WSU hurler walked one and struck out three. AU’s only extra base hit was a double by Nelson. |