SCORE: GM 1 – IT 8, CUAA 5; GM 2 – IT 3, CUAA 11 (5 inn.)
RECORDS: Indiana Tech (12-25, 1-15 WHAC), Concordia (Mich.) (13-10, 7-5 WHAC)
LOCATION: Ann Arbor, Mich.
 
BRIEF: The Indiana Tech softball team snapped a 14-game skid on Sunday afternoon, earning their first Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference victory against Concordia, 8-5. Tori Simper got the win and Katie Bird got the save as the offense exploded for six runs in the fourth inning.  The Cardinals took game two, 11-3 in five innings.
 
FLOW:
GAME 1
The Warriors scored in the first inning for the third consecutive game as Jamie Kilps singled with one out, advanced to third on Hannah Foltz single and scored on a sacrifice bunt from Jessica Cotton. After two scoreless half innings, the Cardinals tied the score in the second on two hits and an error.
 
Bailey Dembinski led off the third with a triple and scored two batters later on a double play to take the 2-1 lead.
 
Tech broke the game open in the fourth, scoring six runs on three hits and a pair of Cardinal errors. Concordia got two quick outs in the inning, but Tori Simper reached on an error and the next two batters reached before Dembinski singled to center, scoring two runs. A strikeout should've again ended the frame but another Concordia error allowed the Warriors third run of the inning.  A pair of walks plated another run and Juliaclare Plezbert drove in two with a single to center for a seven run lead.
 
In the bottom of the inning, Concordia got three runs back on three hits and a pair of errors. Two singles and a fielder's choice put two on with one out, but a Cardinals triple plated two and an error allowed the batter to score to make it 8-4.
 
The Warriors left the bases loaded in the sixth and back-to-back hits and a pair of errors in the bottom of the inning allowed Concordia to cut the lead to three, 8-5. The home team made it interesting in the seventh with a pair of two out singles, but Bird induced a groundball to end the game.
 
GAME 2
The Cardinals scored in every inning including three, three-run innings while the Warriors offense went quite, scoring just three runs on five hits.
 
Concordia got a run in the first and three in the second before the Warriors got on the board in the third. Sofia Johantgen and Bailey Dembinski each reached with one out and Foltz drove them in with a two our single to center to cut the deficit in half.
 
The Cardinals added a run on two hits in the bottom of the frame and a three-run home run in the fourth to put them ahead 8-2. A walk, a hit and an error in the fifth allowed the Warriors to score another run as Foltz drove in Dembinksi, but that's all the offense got as CUAA added three runs on four hits in the bottom of the inning to end the game.
 
HIGHLIGHTS:
GAME 1
Dembinski finished 3-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI…Kilps went 2-for-4 with two runs scored…Cotton drove in two runs without a hit…Simper improved to 5-5, allowing five runs, three earned, on nine hits with one walk and two strikeouts over 5.2 innings…Bird earned her first save with 1.1 scoreless innings of relief, allowing just two hits.

GAME 2
Dembinski drew two walks and scored twice…Foltz was 2-for-3 with all three RBIs…Cotton, Alexis Vargo and Johantgen had the other three hits for Tech…Vargo took the loss, allowing four runs on five hits over 1.2 innings
 
UP NEXT: The Warriors wrap up WHAC play with a doubleheader on Wednesday, Apr. 22 against Aquinas. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Michigan Fuller Park in Grand Rapids, Mich.
 
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Softball Contact: Zachary Shore | 260.422.5561 x. 2492 | zrshore@indianatech.edu
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