The Red Raider softball team swept a GPAC doubleheader from Nebraska Wesleyan on Saturday by the scores of 2-0 and 2-0. Northwestern improves to 18-14 overall, 8-6 in the GPAC with one week left in the regular season. The visiting Prairie Wolves fall to 19-13 overall and 9-9 in the GPAC.
Lexy Determan earned shutout wins in both games and improved to 13-7 overall with six shutouts. In game one, the freshman gave up two singles, one in the fourth and one in the final inning. Determan did not walk a batter and struck out 14 Nebraska Wesleyan batters. In game two, Determan allowed just three hits, all singles, in earning the complete-game win. She walked four NWU hitters and recorded 11 strikeouts. Determan leads the GPAC with 173 strikeouts and needs just 15 more to break the Northwestern single season record, set by Megan McHugh in 2007, of 187.
Offensively in game one, the Red Raiders scored one run in the second inning on an RBI double by Determan which scored pinch runner Jenny Otto. Northwestern went up 2-0 in the fifth inning on a solo home run by Amy Larson, her first of the season. Rachel Harris went 2-2 with two doubles and Lizz Swanson, Stacey Godfrey and Lara Vonnahmen all had one hit apiece.
Coach Mason's squad recorded four hits in game two, one each by Michelle Van Duyn, Swanson, Godfrey and Determan. The Red Raiders scored one run in the third inning on an RBI single by Michelle Van Duyn, scoring Jenny Otto from second with two outs. Northwestern went up 2-0 in the third inning on a lead-off, solo home run by Swanson, her ninth of the season.
Northwestern travels to Mitchell, S.D., to play Dakota Wesleyan in a GPAC doubleheader this evening (Monday, April 21) beginning at 5:00 pm.
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