By Becky Walz,
With a 4-0 conference record, the South Winn softball team (5-3 overall) is one of three teams sitting at the top of the UIC after taking two games from Postville Monday. The Warriors added another tally to the win column with a non-conference victory over Nashua-Plainfield Tuesday.
Sweeping the Pirates
The Lady Warriors took care of business early Monday, defeating Postville (0-4, 0-4 UIC) on the road, 13-0 and 18-5.
While in the pitcher’s circle for only three innings, SW junior Eryn Luzum threw a no-hitter with six strikeouts for the win. Offensively, the Warriors pounded out 13 hits included triples by Mary Frana and Alison Heying. Luzum helped her cause with a pair of doubles and two RBI.
South Winn ran away with game two as well with a pair of seven-run frames in the third and fourth to finish the game early once again. This time the Warriors connected for 16 hits and had 12 stolen bases.
R H
S. Winn 5 6 2 x x x x 13 13
Postville 0 0 0 x x x x 0 0
Eryn Luzum (WP) – 3IP, 2BB, 6K
3B – Mary Frana 1; Alison Heying 1; 2B – Luzum 2; Ruthie Frana 1; 1B – Morgan Kriener 2; Heying 2; R. Frana 1; Morgan Kleve 1; Avery Humpal 1; Emma Houdek 1; RBI – Kriener 3; Kleve 3; Luzum 2; Heying 2; Humpal 2; Liz Engelhardt 1; SB – Heying 3; M. Frana 1; Kriener 1; R. Frana 1; Kleve 1; Houdek 1; Lindsey Thuente 1; Hailey Riehle 1
R H
S. Winn 2 2 7 7 x x x 18 16
Postville 1 0 2 2 x x x 5 1
Kleve (WP) – 2IP, 1R, 1H, 1BB, 5K; Heying (RP) – 2IP, 4R, 4BB, 4K
3B – Heying 1; Houdek 1; 2B – Heying 2; R. Frana 1; Houdek 1; Janessa Zweibahmer 1; 1B – R. Frana 2; M. Frana 1; Kriener 1; Luzum 1; Heying 1; Zweibahmer 1; Izzy Kipp 1; Isabella Opperman 1; RBI – R. Frana 5; Heying 4; Houdek 4; Opperman 2; Luzum 1; Kleve 1; Kipp 1; SB – Kriener 2; M. Frana 1; R. Frana 1; Luzum 1; Heying 1; Kleve 1; Ella Willey 1; Zweibahmer 1; Kipp 1; Thuente 1; Opperman 1
On the road
Stepping out of the UIC, the Warriors finished Tuesday’s contest strong with a 10-run seventh to take the game from Nashua-Plainfield (2-9) 13-7.
“Our top of the order had a great night. We had a few base-running mistakes and ran out of a couple innings early, but adjusted well to the pitching after the first time through the order. We have a lot of growing as a team to go but the girls are putting in the work to get better as a team and as individual players,” said Coach Ken Buchheit.
Striking out seven, Luzum picked up the win. Mary Frana knocked out four doubles in her five at-bats to drive in five runs for SW. Alison Heying knocked out a triple, had two RBI and had four stolen bases.
R H
S. Winn 0 0 1 0 2 0 10 13 13
N-P 2 1 0 1 5 2 0 7 10
Luzum (WP) – 7IP, 7R, 3ER, 10H, 2BB, 7K
3B – Heying 1; 2B – M. Frana 4; 1B – Houdek 2; Humpal 2; Heying 1; Luzum 1; Kleve 1; Kriener 1; RBI – M. Frana 5; Heying 2; Houdek 2; Humpal 2; R. Frana 1; SB – Heying 4; Riehle 1
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