TIGER SOFTBALL SWEEPS STERLING IN DOMINATE FASHION TO KICK OFF THEIR SPRING BREAK TRIP

Sterling, Kan. – Dakota Wesleyan softball's sweep was fueled by hot bats and dominate pitching to kick off their weeklong road trip. Game one consisted of two triples, on nine total hits; while game two, had a double and four total hits.

The Quick Details

Game One Score:

DWU 8 – SC 2

Game Two Score:

DWU 3 – SC 0

How It Happened

Game One

• The Tigers jumped ahead quickly, after Reagan Grossi and Nora Nelson both batted a run in for the 2-0 lead.
• In the top of the second, DWU brough around five runs for their biggest inning in game one.
• Aubrey Garbarek tallied the first run of the inning as she scored on a wild pitch.
• Meghan Daffern connected for a line drive single to left field that scored Alyssa Burke.
• Nelson comes up big with a triple to right field clearing the bases as McKinnely Mull, Grossi, and Daffern come around to score putting the tigers up 7-0.
• Sterling tallied their first run of the game in the bottom of the second inning off a wild pitch by Tava Boone.
• The Tigers rebound in the third inning as Aubrey Garbarek finds a gap in left field for a triple that brings Peyton Bagley around for the 8-1 lead.
• After three scoreless innings in the fourth, fifth, and sixth; Sterling scored one run in the bottom of the seventh for the final run of the game at Dakota Wesleyan takes game one 8-2.
• Nelson recorded the hot hitting, going 2-for-4 with four RBI, and a triple.
• Daffern went 2-for-4 with one RBI, and one run.
• Burke and Bagley each tallied a stolen base, but Mull led the Tigers with two swiped bags.
• Tava Boone pitched a complete game allowing eight hits, two runs, one earn run, and striking out nine batters for the win.

Game Two

• Dakota Wesleyan and Sterling were scoreless in game two through the first four complete innings of play.
• DWU lit up the scoreboard first in the top of the fifth inning as Jaden Warner hit a single to right field bringing Garbarek and Burke in for the 2-0 lead.
• In the bottom of the inning, Sterling stranded one runner on base, then another runner was stranded on base in the bottom of the sixth inning as the Tigers were on top 2-0.
• DWU's last run of the game was on an error by the first basemen of Sterling as Burke laid down a bunt and Garbarek scored on the fielding error for the final run of the game.
• Warner came up big as a pinch hitter driving in two runs as she went 1-for-1.
• Garbarek was 2-for-3 in game two with two runs and a double.
• Burke and Daffern each tallied a stolen base.
• Daffern pitched a complete game allowing five hits and striking out two batters for the win.

Up Next

Dakota Wesleyan softball is back in action from Tucson, Arizona on Sunday, March 6. The Tigers will kick of the Tucson Invitational Games at 11 a.m. Sunday against Aquinas, then DWU will face William Penn at 1:15 p.m. to kick off their games in the desert.