VERONA, Wis. – The weather was so nice, the Edgewood College softball team thought they would play 17 innings today. The Eagles won game one over Concordia Wisconsin 4-3 in 10 innings before falling 5-2 in game two.

The Falcons and Eagles found themselves in a back-and-forth pitching duel with Rachel DeJongh and Melissa Perkins trading punches. Concordia Wisconsin scored one in the third, but Edgewood College tied it in the fifth and grabbed their first lead in the sixth. The Falcons responded with the tying run in the seventh and extra innings was inevitable. After a bases loaded walk brought in another Concordia Wisconsin run, Carlene DeCoster scored on a Falcon error to again tie the ballgame. The Falcons threatened again in the ninth, but Karlie Klossner came in relief to halt any chance of runs.

Jackie Diesch singled to open the 10th and after Alyssa Schulting laid down a sacrifice bunt to move her to second. Dylan Bahrke then laced the first pitch she saw to the left center gap and Diesch scored with ease to seal the victory.

DeJongh tossed 8.2 innings while giving up only two earned runs. The sophomore registered 141 pitches in the outing. Klossner came in to earn the win, throwing 1.1 scoreless innings. Bahrke had two hits while seven others registered at least one.

Game two started with a scoreless first inning, but then Concordia Wisconsin took advantage of four hits and an Edgewood College error in the second. The Falcons scored four runs before Klossner got Jessica Liszka to groundout. In the fourth the Eagles put runners on second and third with one out, but consecutive groundouts ended the threat to score. Concordia Wisconsin tacked on one more in the fifth before Edgewood College got on the board in the bottom half of the inning. With runners on second and third, DeCoster hit a single to the right side and beat out the throw for an infield single. Both runs scored to cut the deficit to 5-2, but Edgewood College was shutout from there on out and the Falcons took game two.

Klossner threw her second complete game of the year and out of the five runs allowed, just one was earned. DeCoster tallied two hits while Bahrke, Taylor McLean, and Kylie Clark made up for the other three.

The Eagles will be back in action tomorrow with a doubleheader at MSOE. First pitch is scheduled for noon in Milwaukee.