ROCHESTER,
Minn. - In their first two games of the season, the
Concordia University Wisconsin softball team went 1-1 inside the
Rochester Dome on Saturday evening, defeating University of
Wisconsin-Stout 6-3 before falling 8-6 to Bethel University.
In the first game
against Stout, CUW broke the game open with a four-run third
inning, providing head coach Steve Crook and the Falcons with all
they would need to secure the victory.
Senior pitcher Danielle
Burke (Burlington, Wis.) threw 4.2 innings, allowing three runs on
six hits. Sophomore Jamie
Schuh (Freedom, Wis.) pitched the remaining 2.1 innings, and
allowed only one base runner while striking out a pair.
Sophomore third baseman
Mariah Giesseman (Sturgeon Bay, Wis.) went 2-4 with three RBI,
while junior second baseman Holly Zinnecker (Roscoe, Ill.) went 2-3
and scored two runs.
In the later game
against Bethel, the Falcons had a 5-4 lead going into the 7th
inning, but allowed four runs in the final frame to let the win
slip away. "We did a lot of pre-season experimenting and that lack
of experience cost us in the second game," explained Coach
Crook.
Schuh started the game
for CUW, giving up four runs, three of them earned, on four hits in
five innings of work.
Senior centerfielder
Sarah Cochran (Bloomington, Ill.) went 2-2 and scored two runs.
