Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score
SOMERS, Wis.- The University of Wisconsin-Parkside Softball team hammered three home runs and scored in every inning in defeating Judson University, 11-2, in game two of a doubleheader on Friday afternoon. The win gave Head Coach, Laura Fillipp, her 249th career victory at UW-Parkside. The Eagles took the opener of the twinbill, 5-4. The Rangers are now 10-26 on the season while Judson moves to 29-13. The games were part of the team’s Third Annual Pink Day to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Game one was scoreless until the fourth inning when Judson broke through with a big swing. With two outs Haley Secor hit her first home run of the year, a three-run shot that just cleared the wall, and gave the Eagles a 3-0 lead. They added two more in the top of the fifth when a bases loaded pop-up with two away was misplayed to make it a five-run game.
The Rangers started their comeback in the bottom half of the inning when Kirsten Luevano doubled in Christine Holthus with Parkside’s first run. Krista Kelly followed with a double of her own and the score was 5-2.
It remained that way until the seventh when the Rangers made things interesting. With two down, Kelly and Meg McCormick gave up with back-to-back big flies, the sixth for the Kelly and second for McCormick, and the lead was trimmed to one. But Sarah Boyer came back to strike out the final hitter and Judson held on for the 5-4 win.
Kelly and McCormick each contributed two hits in the loss. Jill Vondrak absorbed the defeat allowing three earned runs in five innings of work.
Game two got off to an inauspicious start with Judson scoring a first inning run without the benefit of a hit. However, from that point on it was all Rangers.
McCormick delivered a big two-out hit in the bottom of the first, driving in two runs with a single to give Parkside its first lead of the day.
Holthus knocked in Erin Schneider with a single through the right side to add a run in the second. Luevano followed with a booming three-run homer to left center and it was 7-1 in favor of the Rangers.
Starting pitcher Kristin Kleinmeyer helped her own cause with her first career home run in the third. Her solo blast gave Parkside an 8-1 lead.
They slammed the door in the fourth adding four more runs. Luevano plated Holthus with a one-out single. Two batters later McCormick hammered her second home run of the day, this one a three-run shot, giving the Rangers an 11-1 lead.
Judson put together three straight hits to score a run in the seventh but Kleinmeyer retired the next three hitters to seal the deal.
McCormick and Luevano provided the offensive production in game two combining for nine runs batted in. McCormick was 2-for-3 with five RBI while Luevano went 2-for-3 with four RBI and two runs score. Holthus went 2-for-2 with three runs scored and one driven in.
Kleinmeyer went the distance in notching her third win allowing two runs on four hits.
The Rangers will get back into conference play on Saturday when they head to Indiana to take on Saint Joseph’s College.