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Softball Topples Rosati-Kain in First Win of the Season

By Sam Dare
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Updated: 09/04/2015

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Set to make a statment after a season opening loss, senior Wildcat, Annie Backs, began the scoring with an RBI groundout scoring sophomore Izzi Clawson in the second AB of the game.

After a scoreless inning, Erin King, sophomore, hit an RBI double that scored Brooke Lemp, junior, in the second inning. King advanced to third on a passed ball. In the same at bat, Clawson, the lead off hitter, advanced to second on a walk with superb hussel. Both runners scored on Backs’ second and third RBIs of the game. The fourth run of the inning came off the bat of, senior, Megan Wibbenmeyer who scored Backs on a fielder’s choice.

Sophomore, Maddie Voldingand, and King each scored off of back to back errors forced by dueling bunts and heads up base running.

Rosati-Kain recorded their first hit in the third on a bunt. After a wild pitch, single, and consecutive passed balls, Rosati-Kain put up their first run of the game, but a Sweet strikeout ended the threat.

After another scoreless frame, Backs collected her third hit of the game to leadoff the inning. Advancing to second on a groundout, she took third on a passed ball, and scored on senior Taylor Dorsey’s RBI triple, making it an 8-2 ballgame. Five walks, a passed ball, and an Annie Backs fourth hit of the night, plated all that was neccisary in securing the Wildcats’ first 2015 victory, 16-5.