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Southern Indiana (20-10, 11-5 GLVC): 1, 1
at Wisconsin-Parkside (3-27, 2-14 GLVC): 0, 4
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SOMERS, Wis.—The University of Southern Indiana softball team was held to a combined eight hits and two runs as it was forced to settle for a Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader split with the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Sunday afternoon. The Screaming Eagles won the first game, 1-0, but lost game two, 4-1.
USI (20-10, 11-5 GLVC) took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third inning of game one when freshman second baseman
Kara Werner drove in sophomore leftfielder
Kyla Gogel, who led the frame off with a double, with a single.
The run was all freshman pitcher
Brooke Harmening needed to record her team-leading fourth complete-game shutout of the season. Harmening (11-6), who fanned five batters, scattered five hits and a walk throughout seven innings of work to earn the victory.
UW-Parkside (3-27, 2-14 GLVC) capitalized on a leadoff single in the home half of the fourth inning to build a 1-0 lead in game two. The Rangers took advantage of an error and a two-run home run to score three times in the last part of the fifth inning and extend their lead to 4-0.
Gogel led the seventh inning off with a home run, but that was as close as the Eagles would get UW-Parkside pitcher Kristin Kleinmeyer retired the next three batters she faced to earn her first win of the year.
USI had an opportunity to strike first the top of the third inning when Kleinmeyer followed a walk by hitting two straight batters to load the bases with one out. The Eagles, however, failed to push a run across the plate as Kleinmeyer retired the next two batters she faced to keep USI off the scoreboard.
Junior shortstop/pitcher
Stephanie Bittner was pinned with the loss as she gave up four runs, one earned, off four hits in her first appearance in the pitcher's circle this season. Bittner walked two and struck out two in four-and-two-thirds innings of work.
USI returns to action Saturday at noon when it hosts No. 4 University of Indianapolis in a GLVC doubleheader at the USI Softball Field.
