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Hailey Duwa hit her first three home runs of the season this weekend, one in each of WIU's three games versus IUPUI.
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IUPUI Jaguars IUPUI 15-24
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Winner Western Illinois WIU 18-23
IUPUI Jaguars IUPUI
15-24
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Final
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Western Illinois WIU
18-23
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
IUPUI Jaguars IUPUI 3 0 0 2 1 0 0 6 9 2
Western Illinois WIU 1 2 6 1 0 1 X 11 15 3

W: Stulga, Brooke (6-7) L: Nickole Finch (9-10)

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Winner IUPUI Jaguars IUPUI 16-24
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Western Illinois WIU 18-24
Winner
IUPUI Jaguars IUPUI
16-24
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Final
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Western Illinois WIU
18-24
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
IUPUI Jaguars IUPUI 0 0 0 0 2 8 0 10 10 0
Western Illinois WIU 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 5 11 0

W: Erica Tharp (7-12) L: Stulga, Brooke (6-8)

Game Recap: Softball | | WIU Athletic Communications

Softball Splits Doubleheader with IUPUI Saturday, Wins Series 2-1

The Leathernecks took game one 11-6 before dropping game two 10-5

MACOMB, Ill. – Western Illinois softball split its doubleheader with IUPUI on Saturday (April 15), taking game one 11-6 before dropping game two 10-5.
 
The Leathernecks won the series, 2-1, and sit first in The Summit League standings at 9-3. WIU has won each of its four league series played this season. IUPUI, who entered the weekend atop the league standings, now sits second at 6-3.
 
"I was really proud of everyone. We knew we needed to come out today and at least win the series, and that's our goal… to win the series every weekend," said head coach Holly Van Vlymen. "I was very proud of how our team came out and played today. The first game was hard fought… a constant battle. IUPUI is such a good team and they were constantly putting pressure on us offensively and with their pitchers, so I was very proud of our girls."
 
GAME ONE: Western Illinois 11, IUPUI 6
 
After IUPUI grabbed a 3-0 lead in the top of the first, the Leathernecks responded and scored nine runs in the first three innings to grab the lead and eventually held off the Jaguars for an 11-6 victory.
 
The Jags loaded the bases with nobody out in the top of the first with Brooke Stulga in the circle using a pair of singles and a walk. Maggie Good then walked to score a run and Maggie Armstrong singled to right, giving IUPUI an early 3-0 advantage.
 
Western then proceeded to score nine runs in the bottom half of the first three innings to grab a 9-3 lead.
 
In the first, Kelsey Marlow singled to reach base and was eventually driven in on an RBI single up the middle by Aly Compton. Halle Hollatz hit a 2-run home run, her second of the season, in the second to tie the game up at 3-3.
 
WIU then scored six runs in the third thanks to four hits and an error. Compton and Hailey Duwa each walked to leadoff the inning. Stulga then drilled a 3-run home run to center field to clear the bases, her second of the year. Taylor Messer then doubled and eventually scored on an error a throwing error, Marlow hit an RBI double and Hoelting hit a sacrifice fly to plate WIU's sixth run of the inning and put the Leathernecks up 9-3.
 
The Jags then tacked on two unearned runs in the fourth with a pair of RBI singles to cut their deficit to four, 9-5.
 
Western's Duwa hit her second home run of the season and of the series in the fourth, a solo shot, but IUPUI was able to get a run back in the top of the fifth thanks to a sacrifice fly and keep it a four run game at 10-6.
 
WIU added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth when Nina Maggio hit an RBI single up the middle, making it 11-6, which proved to be the final score.
 
10 Leathernecks scored at least one run, eight different Leathernecks recorded at least one hit and seven different Leathernecks finished with at least one RBI.
 
Maggio went 4-for-5 at the plate with an RBI and one run scored. Messer finished 3-for-4 with a team-best two runs scored.
 
Stulga, who finished with a team-high three RBIs, picked up the win in the circle. She started the game, pitching the first 3.2 innings and the last 2.0 innings. She gave up five runs (three earned) on six hits and had five strikeouts. Payton Abbott pitched 1.1 innings in between Stulga's two appearances.
 
Alyssa Matson led IUPUI offensively who finished 3-for-4, including one RBI and a run scored. Starting Jaguar pitcher Nickole Pinch suffered the loss, giving up six runs on six hits.
 
GAME TWO: IUPUI 10, Western Illinois 5
 
The Leathernecks kept things rolling in game two by grabbing an early lead, but a huge sixth inning from IUPUI halted WIU's chances of sweeping the Jags and propelled IUPUI to the 10-5 victory.
 
In the bottom of the first inning, WIU jumped out to a 3-0 lead. Marlow kicked off the scoring when she hit an RBI triple to left center, her fourth of the year, sending Maggio home from first. Hoelting then ripped a single through the left side to plate Marlow. Ira later hit a 2-out, RBI double to center sending Hoelting home.
 
WIU added another run in the fourth to make it 4-0 when Rachel Beatty hit a leadoff single, stole second base and was driven in by an RBI double from Hoelting.
 
Ira, who had cruised through the first four innings only giving up a run and only two hits in the circle for WIU, gave up a leadoff single in the top of the fifth and followed by a 2-run home run to cut the Leathernecks' lead to 4-2.
 
After Duwa led off the fifth with a solo home run extending Western's lead back to three runs, IUPUI's bats came alive in the sixth when they scored eight runs on four hits, stealing the lead from the Leathernecks for good and taking game three, 10-5.
 
Duwa, who finished 3-for-3 with a home run, an RBI and a run scored, and Hoelting, who finished 3-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored, led Western offensively.
 
IUPUI's Erica Tharp picked up the win, going 6.0 innings in relief. WIU's Stulga, who replaced Ira in the fifth inning with the bases clear and 5-4 lead, suffered the loss.
 
Western Illinois continues league play and wraps up it's home slate next weekend when the North Dakota State Bison come to town for a 3-game series on April 22-23.

 
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