The Northwestern College softball team dropped a GPAC doubleheader against Mount Marty, 4-3 and 10-0 (5 innings), played today in Yankton, S.D. The Raiders fall to 12-8 in the conference, 25-13 overall, with four games left in the regular season.

    Game One: 4-3 loss

• The Lancers scored a run in each of the first and third innings off Northwestern starting pitcher, Kameryn Etherington, to take a 2-0 lead
• Northwestern broke through with a run in the fourth; Jessica Mouw led off with a single, stole second and scored off a single by Emily Strasser
• The Raiders took the lead with a two-run, four-hit fifth inning
  • Bri Giordano singled and courtesy runner, Lily Anderson advanced to third on double by Jordyn Kramer; Anderson scored on a bunt single by Madysn Grotewold
  • Kramer later scored the go-ahead run on a ball hit by Jennifer Boeve
• Mount Marty tied the game with a run in the sixth on an RBI single by Bailey Kortan
• The Lancers won it on a walk-off single by Kelly Amezcua, scoring Emma Burns
• By the Numbers:
  • Sydnee Isom (L: 2-1) 1.2 IP, 2 hits, run
  • Kameryn Etherington (ND): 4.1 IP, 5 hits, 1 earned run
  • Northwestern totaled six hits, Mouw 2/3, run scored; Strasser 1/3, RBI
  • Maureena Vornhagen (W: 7-3) 7 IP, 6 hits, 3 runs, 9 K's
  • Lancers with eight hits, two each by Bailey Kortan and Emma Burns

    Game Two: 10-0 loss (5 innings)

• The Lancers pushed five runs across in the bottom of the first inning, three in the second and one each in the third and fourth
  • Kelly Amezcua contributed an RBI double, Sarah Hart a two-run double in the first
  • Amezcua (RBI double) and Karlee Arnold (RBI triple) had the big hits in the second inning
• Northwestern totaled just three hits, all singles; one each for Jessica Mouw, Alayna Bakke and Jennifer Boeve
• Sydnee Isom (L: 2-2), 2/3 IP, 5 hits, 5 runs
• Samantha Ubben (ND) 3.1 IP, 7 hits, 5 runs
• Amezcua 3/3, 2 RBI, 2 runs; Arnold 3/3, 2 RBI, 2 runs
• Jill Orwig (W: 7-7) 5 IP, 3 hits, 2 K's