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WAUKESHA, Wis. - The Illinois Wesleyan softball season ended on a high note with two wins at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wis., on Tuesday, May 3.
The Titans won by scores of 3-2 and 11-0 in a five-inning contest and finish with a 21-15 record. The Pioneers' record fell to 13-20 with the losses.
In the opener, freshman pitchers
Molly McCready and
Victoria Whitaker scattered six hits. Starter McCready (7-4) struck out seven in her four innings and finished the season with 106, ninth most in an IWU single season and the most by a Titan freshman pitcher.
Illinois Wesleyan freshman second baseman
Erin Sweeney drove home a pair of runs with a double in the second inning to stake the team to a 2-0 lead.
The Titans tacked on the eventual winning run in the sixth when senior first baseman
Kris Lee led off with a double. Freshman pinch runner
Amanda Fazzari went to third on a sacrifice by freshman designated hitter
Kaity Crane and scored on an RBI single by junior third baseman
Kayla Mahoney.
In game two, sophomore
Katie Bruins (5-2) allowed only two hits in four innings and sophomore
Alyssa Vorel allowed one hit in one inning of relief in the shutout win. Bruins also helped her cause with a solo home run.
The Titans had 13 hits, including a two-run home run in a six run third inning from Mahoney and doubles from sophomore second baseman
Lauren Vorel, freshman rightfielder
Sara Daley and sophomore leftfielder
Jaci Forsythe.
TITAN NOTES: McCready set an IWU single-season record with 9.16 strikeouts per seven innings and her total of 106 is No. 14 all-time at Illinois Wesleyan...Sophomore shortstop
Emma Clark finished the season with a team-high .396 average and tied the single-season record with 10 home runs, also done by Valerie Hackett in 2007. Clark hit her 10th home run of the year in game one of a doubleheader against North Central on April 14 and did not hit a round-tripper in her final 13 games after hitting 10 in her first 23 games. The 10 homers is tied for ninth in an IWU career. Hackett holds the career record with 21 in four seasons from 2006 to 2009.