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UW-Stout 4, Buffalo State 0 |
UW-Stout 5, Plattsburgh State 0
CLERMONT, Fla (March 21, 2014) - UW-Stout closed out their 10-game trip to Florida by keeping their final two opponents scoreless at the National Training Center College Games Friday. The Blue Devils blanked Buffalo State, 4-0, and Plattsburgh State, 5-0.
Kaitlin Stark (So, Hastings, Minn) was a combined 5-for-8 on the day with two doubles, a triple and a pair of runs batted in. Relief pitcher
Caty Schloer (Fr, Lino Lakes, MInn) came on in the Buffalo game to notch her second collegiate win.
Tori Workman struck out four to run her record to 8-5 on the season, giving up three hits to Plattsburgh.
Stout (10-6) used big fifth innings in both games to record the win. Stout put together a three run fifth inning against Buffalo (0-1) and a four run fifth against Plattsburgh (2-8).
Stout loaded the bases in the first inning agsinst Buffalo, but came away empty-handed. Buffalo threatened in the third, and Schloer came on to strand two.
Stark gave Stout their first run of the game, that coming in the fourth innng whenshe drove in pinch runner
Liz Seipel (Fr, Nekoosa). In the fifth,
Sam Hastings (Sr, Waukesha) got things started with a lead off triple.
Taylor Workman (Jr, Prior Lake, Minn) singled and Nicole Roger (So, Brooklyn Center, Minn) hit a double to score both. Rogers moved to third on a wild pitch and came home on
Tori Workman's ground out.
Schloer struck out three and allowed only two hits to record the win. She walked one.
Against Plattsburgh, the Blue Devils loaded the bases in the fifth. Hastings lofted a sacrifce fly that was dropped and two scored.
Taylor Workman drove in
Lynzi Knudtson (Jr, Melrose), who had reached on a single and Hastings scored on a single by Hanna Sweet. The Blue Devils added a run in the sixth when Stark drove in
Jessica Behnke (Sr,, Bruce) with a left field double.
Tori Workman allowed three hits, three walks and stranded five Cardinal runners.
Stark was pounding the ball around pretty well in Florida, hitting at a .424 clip, going 14-for-33. The lead-off hitter scored 10 runs, had six doubles and drove in six runs. She was 4-for-4 in stolen bases.
Heather Bol (Fr, Woodville) hit .385 (5-13 with three RBI. Knudtson hit .375 (12-of-32) and four sacrifice hits.
Taylor Workman led Stout with seven RBI, while Sweet drove in six.
Tori Workman went 5-3 in Florida, pitching 47.2 innings, striking out 35 to raise her season strikeout total to 72, only seven short of all of last season. Workman finished the Florida excurion with an ERA of. 1.32. Schloer pitched 17.1 innings and went 2-0, stirking out nine in 17.2 innings pitched. As a team, Stout went 7-3, winning seven of their last games on the trip.
Stout returns to action the weekend of March 28-29 when they are scheduled to play four games at the Augstana, Ill, Tournament.
