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Box Score 2 UW-Stout 4, Oswego State 2 | UW-Stout 12, Manchester, Ind, University 0 (5 inn)
CLERMONT, Fla. (March 18, 2013) - It was two ends of the spectrum as the UW-Stout softball team swept a pair of games at the National Training Center College Games Monday, holding off Oswego State, 4-2, then blanking Manchester University, 12-0, in five innings.
Alison Gray (Sr, St. Cloud, Minn) had a pair of home runs to key the Blue Devils (7-3) win over Oswego State (2-6), but Stout still had to hold off the Lakers in the bottom of the seventh inning.
Gray started off a three-run sixth inning with a solo shot to right field and
Nicole Rogers (Fr, Brooklyn Center, Minn) would drive in
Kaitlin Stark (Fr, Hastings, Minn) and
Jess Nicol (Sr, Eau Claire) to put Stout up 3-0. The Blue Devils held Oswego scoreless for the sixth straight inning before Gray would give Stout a 4-0 with a home run to left field in the seventh.
The Lakers would rally, scoring two runs on a double by Alexandra McKay in the bottom of the inning.
Laura Vanderhoof (Jr, Mankato, Minn), who started the game, but gave way to
Tori Workman (Fr, Prior Lake, Minn), returned to preserve the win. Vanderhoof finished with five strikeouts.
In the nightcap, Workman started in the circle and drove in three runs to get her third win of the season. The Blue Devils tallied three runs in the first inning, then added five in the second. They put the game away with fiour runs in the bottom of the fourth.
Workman, Gray and
Sam Hastings (Jr, Waukesha) each finished the game with two hits. Manchester (3-3) was held to two hits.
Stout is off until Thursday, March 21 when they will face Trinity College of Connecticut and Allegheny College. Stout will close the week when they play the University of Dubuque and Ramapo College, Friday, March 22.
