UW-Eau Claire 6, UW-Stout 1 |
UW-Eau Claire 13, UW-Stout 4
EAU CLAIRE (April 27, 2022) - UW-Stout scored first, but was unable to hold off UW-Eau Claire Wednesday at Bollinger Fields and the Blugolds carried off two wins, 6-1, 13-4.
Stout (12-22, 2-10 WIAC) was able to strike immediately in the opener when Blue Devil lead-off hitter
Korin Hall smacked a single to left field. Second batter
Ashley Jacobson had twice as much fun, hitting a double left field to drive Hall home from first base and Stout led 1-0. The Blugolds (21-7, 7-3 WIAC) scored three runs in the bottom of the inning.
Stout threatened in the third, fifth, sixth and seventh innings, leaving one runner on in the third, two in the fifth, one in the sixth and one in the seventh. Eau Claire scored a single run in the fourth and two runs in the fifth.
Stout finished with six hits, three by Hall who was 3 for 4. The Blugolds finished with nine hits for the game, with Megan Patterson matching Hall's three hits.
In game two, the Blugolds scored six runs in each of the second and sixth innings and one run in the third.
Trailing 7-0, Stout scored three runs in the fourth inning.
Lexy Kupczak hit her league-leading seventh home run of the season in the fourth inning, a two-run blast to left center field.
Shannon Jones followed up with a double and pinch runner
Katelyn Belleau, advanced to third on
Kate Funk's ground out to second and scored on
Alexa Anderson's ground out to second base.
Hall reached on an bunt single to third, then moved to third on Jacobson's double. Hall scored on an infield error.
Korin Hall
Stout was limited to six hits in the game, but three of the hits were extra-base hits, with doubles by Jacobson and Jones and the home run by Kupczak. Hall recorded two hits in the game.
Hall stole two bases in each game, running her conference-leading totals to 20 stolen bases. No Blue Devil has stolen 20 or more stolen bases in a single season since Kyncaide Diedrich stole 27 in 2019. Hall stole four bases all of last season and had nine total stolen bases coming into this season. Her 29 career stolen bases puts her eighth on the UW-Stout all-time list.
Kupczak's seventh home run is the most in a single season since Alison Gray hit nine and Sam Hastings hit seven in the 2013 season.
The Blue Devils will wrap up the regular season Friday, April 29 when they travel to UW-Stevens Point for a 3 p.m. start. The match-up was originally scheduled for April 15, but was first postponed to May 1. The April 29 date was made available when St. Benedict needed to cancel a non-conference contest with Stout to play a conference contest.
