WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – The No. 14 Wartburg softball team swept Alma Thursday.
Ella Link hit a walkoff single to claim the first game 4-3, and the Knights won the finale, 9-2.
Game One:
- Alma took the early 1-0 lead in its first at-bats.
- This remained the score until the fifth when the Scots plated two on a two-run homer.
- The Knights got on the board in the fifth and tied it at three all.
- Alma was retired in order in the sixth and seventh to give Wartburg one more trip to the plate
- Hannah Happ drew a walk, moved to second on Sydney Illg's single and scored on Link's single.
- Sydney Fellows was 3-3 with two doubles
Game Two:
- Wartburg took the 4-0 lead in the top of the second
- Alma plated one in the bottom of the third on a solo home run
- The Knights added one run in the fourth, fifth, and sixth to extend the lead to 7-1
- Lauren Frerichs hit a solo roundtripper in the fifth
- The Scots would tally their final run in the sixth
- Kailey Maksim hit a two-run single in the seventh for the final runs of the day
- Kaylie Springer went 3-5 with two RBIs
- Illg was 3-3 with a run scored
- Fellows and Alexis Larson went 2-4
- Frerichs was 2-2 with two runs scored and two RBIs
- Reegan Deputy was 2-3
Next events
The Orange and Black return to the field tomorrow against Moravian at 9 a.m. ET and Cabrini at 11:30 a.m. ET.
