Jensen Boger went 3-for-3 and drove in two runs and
Emma Schnell picked up her 12th consecutive win in leading Northwestern to a 6-4 game two win over Midland tonight in Fremont, Neb. The Red Raiders dropped game one 3-2 in eight innings and move to 8-2 in the GPAC at the midpoint in the conference schedule. They are now 23-6 on the year.
Schnell improved her record to 12-1 this season, giving up seven hits and one earned run in the full seven innings of game two. The freshman walked one and struck out three.
Boger paced the offense with three hits, including a key two-run double in the Red Raiders five-run third inning.
Jessica Sandbulte went 2-for-4 with two doubles and
Kayla Tindall added two hits, two RBIs and one run scored.
Scoreless after two innings, Northwestern put five runs across in the third on five hits and two Midland errors to pull ahead for good. Tindall smacked a two-run single for Nachtigall's squad, scoring both Sandbulte and
Amanda Everhart.
The Red Raiders added a run in the sixth on an RBI double by
Cheyenne Wilcke, scoring Boger.
Midland scored two runs in both the fifth and sixth innings and totaled seven hits. Jamie Phares led the Warriors at the plate, going 2-for-3 with four RBIs and Bobbie Singleton added two hits and scored a run. Madison Plummer was the losing pitcher, giving up nine hits and five earned runs in five-plus innings.
Game one featured a pitchers dual as Jaylee Hinrichs out-dueled
Kayla Tindall in the Warriors' 3-2 win in eight innings.
Hinrichs limited Northwestern to three hits and two runs, walked five and struck out 14 in picking up her 11th win of the season. Tindall (10-4) scattered 10 hits and allowed three runs to go with one walk and 10 strikeouts.
Trailing 2-1, Coach Nachtigall's squad sent the game into extra innings on a solo home run by Wilcke to lead off the seventh inning. Midland, however, scored the winning run when Andrea Cespedes hit a two-out double and came around to score after a single by Alexis Oden in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Wilcke went 1-for-3, hitting her team-leading ninth home run of the season.
Madison Beaver and Boger had the other two hits for the Red Raiders.
