Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 | Box Score 3 UW-Whitewater will have to play the waiting game.  The Warhawks swept a doubleheader at UW-River Falls Monday, winning 9-1 in five innings and coming from behind to take game two 7-5 -- but dropped a 1-0 decision in the continuation of a game with UW-La Crosse that was suspended due to weather April 15.  UW-W, thirteenth in the AFCA Division III poll, is 29-5 overall and 12-4 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.  UW-Eau Claire, 11-3, has a doubleheader versus UW-Oshkosh, 9-3, Tuesday, and Oshkosh has a doubleheader against UW-Stevens Point Wednesday.  The WIAC champion will host the league's postseason tournament Friday-Sunday.

Whitewater got on the board first In game one versus River Falls, scoring three runs, with the aid of two Falcon errors, in the second.  Laura Eichenold (Elmwood Park, IL/Trinity) singled in a run, Mimi Ramirez (Chicago, IL/Trinity) singled in the second, and the third came home on a UW-RF throwing error.

Falcon catcher Amber O'Connell hit her first home run of the season in the bottom of the second to make the score 3-1.

The Warhawks tacked on three more in the fourth.  Kelly McGrail (Tinley Park, IL/V.J. Andrew) singled in the first tally of the frame, and Ramirez added her second RBI of the game with another single. Amanda Mertes (Des Plaines, IL/Elk Grove)' double, Whitewater's only extra base hit of the game, made it 6-1.

One inning later UW-W scored three, for the third time, to make it 9-1.  McGrail knocked in two more with a single to right center, and Ramirez picked up her third run batted in with a one out single.

The game ended after five innings because of the run differential rule.

Ramirez went 3x4 to lead UW-W, with McGrail adding a pair of hits in Whitewater's total of eleven.  Katie Boyle (Greendale/Thomas More), 14-2, allowed four hits, walking two and striking out three while picking up the win.

Whitewater scored first, again, in game two, tallying twice in the first on Morgan Krisch (Plainfield, IL/Central)'s sixth home run of the season, tying her for the team lead.

That lead lasted until UW-RF piled up five runs in the fourth -- on just three hits, none of them for extra bases.  The Falcon offense had some help, with Warhawk pitchers issuing four walks in the inning as UW-RF took a 5-2 lead.

UW-W came back in their next at bat, matching the five spot to take the lead, and end the scoring, at 7-5.  Paige Evangelista (Wheaton, IL/North) brought in a run with a fielder's choice, Samie Seamon (Antioch, IL/Antioch) singled in one, two came in on an error, and McGrail continued her productive day with a RBI single to center to wrap things up.

Whitewater's Emily Epifanio (Park Ridge, IL/Maine South) led both teams with a 4x4 game at the plate, with Krisch and McGrail chipping in with two hits each.  Boyle picked up the win in relief, upping her mark to 15-2 with 3.2 innings of four hit, one run relief.


The winning run in the La Crosse game scored April 15.  Before that game was stopped by rain, Katie Fink led off the bottom of the fourth with a double, moved to third on a sacrifice and scored on a fielder's choice.  That one run stood up for two weeks.

In the three and a half innings played Monday, UW-W had a runner on second in the fourth, went 1-2-3 in the fifth, put a runner on first in the sixth, and had runners on first and second with one out -- and again with two outs, in the seventh, but couldn't push one (or more) across.

The Warhawk offense was limited to three hits, two by Emily Epifanio (Park Ridge, IL/Maine South), by Megan Nelson, 9-3, of La Crosse.  Bekka Houda (Lisle, IL/Lisle) earned a complete game for UW-W, giving up just five hits while walking one and striking out eight.  Houda is 14-3 for the Warhawks.

UW-Whitewater's doubleheader at Elmhurst College Tuesday has been cancelled.  The Warhawks' next action will be the WIAC Tournament. 


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