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SUNDAY'S GAMES: Sunday morning's snow and impending precipitation throughout the day have forced postponement of the UW-River Falls/UW-Whitewater and the UW-Stout/UW-Oshkosh games at Don and Nona Williams Stadium. The games have not yet been rescheduled.
THIS WEEK'S GAMES: UW-Stout (18-6, 6-2 WIAC) were scheduled to host first place UW-Eau Claire (16-3, 4-0 WIAC), Thursday, April 18, but poor weather forced that game to be rescheduled for Thursday, April 25 at 4 p.m. This weekend, the Blue Devils will host a cluster-type tournament when UW-River Falls brings their schedule to Don & Nona Williams Stadium. Stout will host UW-Whitewater, Saturday, April 20 at 11 a.m., while the Falcons will host Oshkosh at approximately 3 p.m. On Sunday, April 21, the Falcons will host Whitewater at 10 a.m., and Stout will host the Titans at 2 p.m.
THE BLUE DEVILS: The Blue Devils have been delivering the home run ball this season, and especially on artificial field surfaces. Stout has played their last four games at Williams Stadium and have hit at least one home run in each game and eight over the last four games. Count the four the Blue Devils hit at Pioneer Stadium in Platteville last week, three against Macalester in the West St. Paul Dome and five against St. Olaf in the Irish Dome, and that adds up to 20 of the teams' 26 home runs this year have been on artificial grass. Stout is second in the WIAC in home runs. The Blue Devils are looking to play at least their next six games at Williams Stadium.
Alison Gray and
Sam Hastings are leading the team in home runs with seven apiece.
Taylor Workman has four, including two against River Falls on Tuesday.
Hannah Sweet and
Erin Moss each have three home runs. The Workman sisters lead the everyday players in average with Tori hitting .449 (22-49) and Taylor hitting .442 (23-52) with 24 RBI. Moss is hitting .442 with a team-high 10 stolen bases. Gray has driven in 24 runs and Hastings has plated 28 runs.
Tori Workman has an 11-5 overall record in the circle with 44 strikeouts.
Laura Vanderhoof has a 7-0 record with 37 strikeouts. |
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BLUE DEVILS LAST TIME OUT: UW-Stout handed UW-River Falls a pair of losses Tuesday, a 13-2 decision in the opener where
Taylor Workman crushed back-to-back home runs to tally five RBI and Stout punched out 17 hits in the contest.
Sam Hastings hit a two-run shot in the first inning of the second game and the Blue Devils went on to an 8-1 win over the Falcons.
Erin Moss stole five base over the two games and also laced a home run in the second game.
UW-WHITEWATER: The 10th ranked Warhawks were picked to finish first in the WIAC in a preseason survey. Senior Emily Epifanio secured WIAC Position Player of the Year accolades last season after placing third in the conference with 32 RBI, fourth with eight home runs, fifth with a .651 slugging percentage and 50 hits, and sixth with a .388 batting average. She ranks fourth in UW-Whitewater's career chart with 23 home runs and seventh with 102 RBI. Senior Amanda Mertes had a league-leading 30 stolen bases a season ago and is six away from breaking the school career record.
WARHAWKS LAST TIME OUT: The Warhawks were swept by UW-Oshkosh, 3-2, 2-0, April 16 in Oshkosh. The Titans' Taylor Loew, Lindsey Luedke and Jill Vondrakwere the heroes as UW-Oshkosh booked two wins over UW-Whitewater on Monday at YP.com Softball Park. The Titans, playing their first home game of the season, won the opener 3-2 on Loew's two-out, walk-off single during the eighth inning. Vondrak then retired the first 17 batters to gain a 2-0 victory in the second contest. Luedke connected for a clutch home run in each game.
LAST TIME THEY MET: The first game was more of a pitchers' duel, the second a hitters' game, but the result were the same as UW-Whitewater swept a pair of games from UW-Stout Saturday, 3-2, 14-8. In the opener, UW-Stout scored in the first and seventh innings, but UW-Whitewater got just enough in between to defeat the Blue Devils 3-2 in the first game of the doubleheader Saturday.
Alison Gray hit a two-out double in the first inning, then came home on
Hannah Sweet's to give Stout a 1-0 lead, a lead they held until the fourth inning when Whitewater's Emily Epifiano tied the score with a solo home run. Laura Eichold unloaded a two-run double in the fifth inning to give the Warhawks a 3-1 lead. Stout's
Jessica Behnke hit her first career home run in the seventh inning to pull the Blue Devils to within 3-2, but the final two batters flied out. Behnke was 2-for-3 to lead Stout. In the second game, Stout took the lead in the first inning on
Erin Moss' RBI single. But the 15th ranked Warhawks exploded for eight runs in the bottom of the second inning, sending 12 batters to the plate. Stout immediately responded with four runs in the top of the third. Gray sliced an RBI single, freshman
Taylor Workman drove in two runs witha single and
Sam Hastings had a sacrifice fly. Stout added two more runs in the top of the fourth to pull to within 8-7 when Moss hit a two-run home run, her second as a Blue Devils It was just about all Warhawks after that as Whitewater scored one run in the fourth, three in fifth and two in the sixth. Stout's Sweet added a solo home run in the seventh to close out the scoring. Moss finished the game hitting 2-for-3 with two runs scored and three RBI. Richardson scored three runs and was 2-for-3. Paige Evangelista had two home runs for the Warhawks, going 2-for-5 with five RBI. Kelly McGrail was 3-for-3 with three RBI and Morgan Krisch was 2-for-3 with three RBI.
UW-OSHKOSH: UW-Oshkosh returns five players who started at least 31 games last year, including junior Tess Fadness, who has started all 80 games of her career. Sophomore Katie Koepsel led the squad with a .370 batting average and nine home runs, while topping the conference with a .739 slugging percentage. Senior Courtney Wautier has appeared in 86 games over the past three years, compiling a 33-26 record and 4.00 ERA with 289 strikeouts over 387 innings. During the 2012 campaign, UW-Oshkosh belted 32 home runs, while its pitchers gave up 11.
TITANS LAST TIME OUT: The Titans took a pair of games from UW-Whitewater, April 16, winning the first 3-2, and the second, 2-0.
LAST TIME THEY MET: UW-Stout used an 8-hit, 9-run fifth inning while sending 13 to the plate on their way to a 13-5 second game win over UW-Oshkosh Sunday. In the opener, Oshkosh scored two runs in both the fifth and sixth innings to take a 4-3 win. Trailing 5-1 heading into the fifth,
Courtney Richardson got things going with a lead-off single and, following a fly out, the flood gates opened for Stout as consecutive singles up the middle by
Hannah Sweet,
Taylor Workman and
Sam Hastings drove in runs.Stout continued to load the bases and
Jessica Behnke drew a walk to bring in a run. Pinch hitter
Lynzi Knudtson drove in a run and
Erin Moss (Jr, Munster, Ind) and
Alison Gray each drove in two runs to conclude the scoring and Stout led 10-5.
Laura Vanderhoof, who entered the game in the third inning trailing 5-0, scattered three hits throughout her 4.2 innings of shutout ball, striking out two and walking one to record the win. While Vanderhoof continued to keep the Titans scoreless, Stout added two runs in the sixth inning on Richardsons' two-run double and a single run in the seventh on Hastings' single. As a team, Stout collected 18 hits, one short of the school single game record. The last time Stout pounded out 18 hits was April 19, 2007, a 13-9 win over UW-Superior. Gray finished the game hitting 4-for-5 with three RBI and a run scored. Sweet was 3-for-5 and Richardson was 3-for-4. Moss, Hastings and Jessica Nicolwere all 2-for-5. The Blue Devils opened game one with a three-run second inning. Workman sliced a one out single through the left side and Hastings moved Knudtson, who was pinch running for Workman, to second base. Nicol drove in Knudtson with a single to left center and Behnke brought home Nicol and Hastings with a single to right field to give Stout a 3-0 lead. The Titans threatened in the bottom of the second, but stranded two runners and did not get a runner on again until the fifth inning. Emily Mallek hit a two-out, RBI double to cut Stout's lead to 3-2. Oshkosh took the lead when Julia Burns hit a two-run single in the sixth inning. Stout did get a runner on with two outs when
Sam Stout reached on an infield single in the seventh inning, but Kimberly Lohre came to the circle to fan the only batter she faced to pick up the save.
UW-EAU CLAIRE: The Blugolds are currently setting on top of the WIAC, the only team with an unblemished conference record. Eau Claire has been idle since April 7, having had several games cancelled or postponed. The host of the 2013 NCAA Division III Softball Championships, Eau Claire was picked to finish second in the WIAC. The Blugolds are led by Jenny Hess with a batting average of .475 (29-61) and 17 stolen bases in 17 attempts. But Ness has been topped in the stolen base category by Amanda Fischer who has 20 thefts in 22 attempts. Sarah Fern leads the Blugolds in RBI with 21. Fern was named the Louisville Slugger/NFCA DIII National Player of Week on March 27 after driving in 11 runs on 10 hits during the team's Florida trip. She is hitting .455 (25-55).Taylor Pierce has drvien in 19 runs and Casey Arnold, 15. The Blugolds uses a balanced pitching attack with Emma Wishau, Laura Reflik, Zana Lorbetske and Emily Ruegemer. Raflik has worked 44 innings with and ERA of 2.07 and a record of 6-1. Lorbetske leads the team in strikeouts with 28, has an ERA of 2.24 and a record of 4-1. Wishau is 3-1 with an ERA of 1.55 and Reugemer is 3-0 wtih an ERA of 3.57. |
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BLUGOLDS LAST TIME OUT: Eau Claire defeated UW-Stevens Point, 8-3, and UW-Superior, 8-0, April 7 in Platteville.
LAST TIME THEY MET: The Blugolds took both games last spring in Eau Claire, winning 3-0 and 9-3. Emily Mueller hit a three-run home run in the opener and Nikki Bromelkamp hit a three-run blast in the opening inning of the second game to pad a two-run advantage in the first inning.
AWARDS AND HONORS: Taylor Workman was selected at the WIAC and the UW-Stout athlete of the week after going 8-of-r9 against UW-Platteville, April 7...
Alison Gray was selected as the WIAC position player of the week and the UW-Stout athlete of the week after the Blue devils got off to a 12-4 overall start...
Erin Moss was named the UW-Stout Athlete of the Week after the Blue Devils started at a 3-1 overall record.
COACHES: Blue Devil coach
Chris Stainer (264-351, overall; 246-326, at UW-Stout) enters her 15th season at Stout and her 16th season overall.
ON DECK: Stout is scheduled to travel to Northwestern College, Wednesday, April 24 in a make-up game from early April then will host UW-Eau Claire, Thursday, April 25 at 4 p.m.
