Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The UW-Whitewater softball team, ranked seventh in the most recent National Fastpitch Coaches Association poll, dropped two games to twenty-fourth ranked Illinois Wesleyan University, 9-1 and 8-0, in two shortened games in Bloomington, Illinois Friday afternoon.

Game One
IWU posted all the runs they would need in the bottom of the second inning. A pinch hit followed an error on the sacrifice bunt attempt landed runners at the corners. A ground ball fielder's choice in the next at bat brought one run in. Back-to-back singles with two outs for IWU scored the second run putting the Spartans ahead 2-0.

Emily Epifanio (Park Ridge, IL/Maine South) notched her third home run in two games with a solo shot in the top of the sixth to halve the IWU lead.

Illinois Wesleyan came back in the bottom of the sixth with seven runs off of six hits and two Warhawk errors to end the game by the run rule, 9-1.

UW-W struggled at the plate with Amanda Mertes (Des Plaines, IL/Elk Grove) and Epifanio recording the only Warhawk hits of the game.

Junior righty Katie Boyle (Greendale/Thomas More) took the loss on the mound for Whitewater, her first of the season, pitching 5.2 innings while allowing 12 hits and striking out three.

Molly McCready picked up her sixth win of the season for IWU allowing just two hits while striking out ten.

Game Two
IWU posted a run in the bottom of the first after back-to-back singles and a one out RBI fielder's choice combined for the first score of the game. That would be all the offense that IWU would need in the game.

IWU added three more in the bottom of the second, another in the third and three more in the bottom of the sixth to make the score 8-0 and end the game early by virtue of the run rule.

The UW-W offense continued to struggle in the second game, recording just two hits, one from Epifanio and the other off the bat of Samie Seamon (Antioch, IL/Antioch) in the nightcap.

Amy Christopher (Lafayette, CO/Holy Family) and Bekka Houda (Lisle, IL/Lisle) had a combined effort on the mound for Whitewater allowing eight runs on 10 hits while striking out three and walking three. Christopher registers the loss, her first of the season to make her record 4-1.

The Warhawks are now 15-3 this season. IWU improves to 16-3.

Whitewater is set to host UW-Oshkosh in a double header Wednesday, April 11 with the first game starting at 3:00 pm at van Steenderen Field.

For additional information please contact head coach Brenda Volk