Wayne State 6 Northern State 1

Wayne State 9 Northern State 1

            The Wayne State College softball team picked up two more conference wins on the season as they swept their doubleheader with Northern State. The Wildcats are now 14-6 overall this season and 5-1 in conference play while the Wolves fall to 11-13 overall and 3-3 in the NSIC.
            The Wildcats wasted little time jumping on the Wolves as WSC posted four runs in the first inning. The big hit of the inning was a three run bomb by Sam O’Brien to bolster the Wayne State lead to 4-0. Northern State would score one run in the third inning to cut their deficit to 4-1 but Wayne State scored one run in the fourth inning and tacked on another run in the seventh inning to preserve the 6-1 win. The Wildcats outhit the Wolves 9-6 in the contest.
            Wayne State was led at the plate by Kylee Simpson who went 3-4 with one RBI and scored three runs. Sam O’Brien posted three RBI’s while Kaiti Williams had two RBI’s on 2-4 hitting. Kelcie Bormann was in the pitching circle for WSC and improved to 5-2 on the season as she went 6.2 innings with three strikeouts while allowing four hits and one run (zero earned).
            Game two saw WSC take the game in six innings as the eight run mercy rule came into play during Wayne State’s 9-1 victory. Wayne State scored two runs in the first inning and one run in the second inning to take an early 3-0 lead over NSU. Northern State posted one run in the third inning before Wayne State scored six runs in the sixth inning to finish the game. All six runs in the inning were scored after the Wolves had got two outs on the Wildcats and the inning was capped by a three run homer by Megan Hagemann to put Wayne State up 9-1. NSU couldn’t score in runs in their half of the sixth inning and Wayne State posted the 9-1 win. WSC outhit Northern State 15-6 in game two.
            Megan Hagemann swung the hot bat in the game for Wayne State going 3-4 with three RBI’s and one run scored. Kylee Simpson, Jordan King, Kelcie Bormann, Kaiti Williams and Sam O’Brien had two hits each for WSC. Pitcher Sara Scheffert went five innings for Wayne State and improved to 7-3.
            Wayne State returns to action on Tuesday hosting Upper Iowa in a Northern Sun Conference doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. at the Pete Chapman Softball Complex in Wayne.