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Bluejay Softball Team Drops Twin Bill to Dubuque
Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score
ELMHURST, Ill. - The Elmhurst College softball team was swept in a doubleheader by Carroll College, falling to 12- 23 on the season. The Bluejays dropped game one 6-5 in 10 innings and fell in the night cap 5-3.
DUBUQUE 6, ELMHURST 5 - Elmhurst rallied from a 3-1 deficit to force extra innings, but fell in 10 innings 6-5.
After Dubuque struck for three runs in the sixth to take a 3-1 lead, the Bluejays evened the score at 3-all by scoring a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh.
Both teams scored a run in the eighth inning and Dubuque scored again in the ninth to take a 5-4 lead. Elmhurst had a chance to win the game in the ninth, but ran themselves out of the inning. With one out and a runner at third, Michelle Fournier (Oak Lawn/Richards) tripled to right center to tie the game, but Fournier was gunned down at the plate trying to score on an inside the park home run. Lauren Ventrella (Orland Hills/Andrew) and Becca Zumpf (Frankfort/Lincoln-Way East) followed with singles, but Beth Cann (Peotone/H.S.) flied out to center to end the threat.
Dubuque scored the game-winning run in the top of the tenth.
Ventrella and Maureen Roderick (Alton/H.S.) had three hits apiece to lead the Bluejays' offense. Fournier drove in three of Elmhurst's five runs in the loss.
Jaci Hall (Naperville/Waubonsie Valley) suffered the loss. She allowed only eight hits and three earned runs in 10 innings of work. She walked three and fanned four.
DUBUQUE 5, ELMHURST 3 - Dubuque (14-20) outhit Elmhurst 8-6 while completing the doubleheader sweep with a 5-3 win in game two.
Vanessa Kalal (Montgomery/Oswego) recorded two of the Bluejays' six hits in the loss. Cann and Fournier each drove in a run in the loss.
Kalal took the loss from the circle. She worked seven innings and allowed eight hits and three earned runs. She walked four and struck out three.
Elmhurst wraps up the 2008 season by hosting the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater on Tuesday, April 29, at 3:00 p.m.
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