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Box Score 2 MILWAUKEE, Wis. – The Edgewood College softball team was looking to end the year on a high note, but could muster only one run in two games on Saturday afternoon. The Eagles lost a 7-1 contest in game one before Wisconsin Lutheran snuck past Edgewood College in game two 1-0 on a walk -off walk.
The Eagles (18-19, 8-14 NACC) had a hard time containing Wisconsin Lutheran in the first game as the Warriors plated a score in the first three innings. Edgewood College tallied two hits in both the first and third and three in the fourth, but could not push across any runs. The Eagles finally got on the board in the fifth inning as Carlene DeCoster led off with a single. Back-to-back groundouts moved DeCoster to third and then Dylan Bahrke scored her with a RBI single down the left field line.
Up 3-1, Wisconsin Lutheran (26-14, 16-6 NACC) broke open the game in the bottom of the fifth. The Warriors loaded the bases with just one out and after an Edgewood College error, the first run scored. Mindy Schalinske scored another with a single to center and two more scored on a Brittney Blazich single to make the score 7-1. The Eagles had two more innings to rally back, but went 1-2-3 in the sixth and seventh.
DeCoster went 3-for-4 at the plate while Bahrke and Taylor McLean each tallied a pair of hits. Jackie Diesch and Rachel DeJongh each pitched three innings, with Diesch taking her first loss of the season.
Hits were hard to come by in game two as Karlie Klossner and Wisconsin Lutheran's Kendra Thomas were locked in a pitcher's duel. Klossner shut down the Warriors in three straight innings before Wisconsin Lutheran tallied their first hit. Kylie Clark and DeCoster registered back-to-back hits in the first, but then Thomas did not surrender another base knock the rest of the game.
In the bottom of the seventh, an Eagle error allowed the Warriors to reach. After a hit and a walk, Wisconsin Lutheran had the bases loaded with just one out. DeJongh got the next batter to fly out, but then Emily Sievert drew a walk to score the game's first run and send the Warriors to a 1-0 triumph.
Klossner allowed just one hit in four innings and struck out three while DeJongh took the loss even though the lone run was unearned.
The Eagles finish their season 18-19 overall, their most wins since 2009 when Edgewood College finished with 19. Edgewood College's 81 stolen bases this season rank fifth all-time and are the most since the Eagles tallied 85 in 1995.