Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Warhawk sophomore outfielder Samie Seamon (Antioch, IL/Antioch) drove in six runs in UW-Whitewater's 10-2 game one win over the University of Dubuque, and UD hung on with an 8-7 win in game two Thursday at van Steenderen Field in Whitewater.

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Dubuque took a 1-0 lead with a run in the top of the first in game one.  UW-W came back in the bottom half of the inning with three runs -- on one hit.  A one out single was followed by five straight walks to account for all three runs with just one batted ball. 

Dubuque scored again in the second to cut Whitewater's lead to 3-2, but Whitewater scored twice in its half for a 5-2 margin.  Seamon led off the third with a home run, her third of the season, for a 6-2 Whitewater lead.  Seamon tripled in two more runs in the fourth, making it 8-2.  And she wasn't done, plating two more runs with a double in the sixth that gave UW-W the eight run lead and ended the game on the run differential rule.

Seamon's six RBI's (she also had one with a walk in the first) is one short of the school record.  The record is held by Kathy McKibben versus UW-Madison in 1979 and Toni Breidenbach against Carthage College the same season.

Katie Boyle (Greendale/Thomas More) benefitted from Seamon's outburst, pitching five innings to raise her record to 8-1. 

The Spartans jumped in front again in game two, this time scoring three times on three hits, aided by a walk and a Warhawk error.  Lauren Eichenold's RBI single got one of the runs back in the bottom of the frame.

Dubuque pushed across run number four in the third, but Seamon (who else?) clubbed a two run homer in the bottom of the inning to narrow the Spartans' lead to 4-3.

A Paige Evangelista (Wheaton, IL/North) RBI single in the fourth knotted the score at 4-4.

Both teams scored once in the fifth, Dubuque combining four hits and Kelly McGrail (Tinley Park, IL/V.J. Andrew)'s double accounting for Whitewater's tally to remain tied, 5-5.

Still tied after a scoreless sixth, the first two Dubuque hitters in the seventh were retired.  The third batter hit a foul fly that a UW-W fielder dropped, and four hits later the Spartans led 8-5.  McGrail and Evangelista drove in runs for UW-W in the bottom of the seventh, but the game ended with the tying run on second.

McGrail went 4x4 for UW-W, and Evangelista added a 3x4 game to the offense.  Susan Danielewski, who was the Spartan's starting pitcher, and Jessica Nearad, who was the finishing pitcher, were both 3x4 for UD.  Nearad picked up the win, and Bekka Houda (Lisle, IL/Lisle), 6-2, who came on in relief of Amy Christopher (Lafayette, CO/Holy Family), took the loss for UW-W.

UW-Whitewater is at the midpoint of a stretch of eight games in five days.  UW-W swept a home doubleheader from UW-Oshkosh Wednesday, and the Warhawks will travel to the University of Chicago for two games Saturday.  UW-W will return home to host Cardinal Stritch College Sunday at 2:00 at van Steenderen Field.  Van Steenderen is located west of Perkins Stadium on the north end of campus.  Free parking is available in the stadium lot.

For additional information:  Brenda Volk, UW-W coach