Lauryn Etienne throws a pitch straight at the camera at Robin Roberts Field with the batter and umpire waiting.
Matt Ammerman
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Black Hawk College Black Hawk College 0
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Winner Madison College Madison College 0
Black Hawk College Black Hawk College
0
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Final
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Madison College Madison College
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Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Black Hawk College Black Hawk College 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 1
Madison College Madison College 0 0 0 1 2 0 X 3 6 0

W: Etienne, Lauryn (8-2) L: Camryn Carter (0-1) S: Golembiewski, Sophie (1)

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Winner Black Hawk College Black Hawk College 0
5
Madison College Madison College 0
Winner
Black Hawk College Black Hawk College
0
11
Final
5
Madison College Madison College
0
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Black Hawk College Black Hawk College 0 0 0 3 4 4 0 11 13 3
Madison College Madison College 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 5 6 3

W: Camryn Carter (1-0) L: Lewis, Gretta (5-3)

Game Recap: Softball |

Madison College nets key win, splits doubleheader with Black Hawk

Etienne, Golembiewski combine for seven K's, Brooks produces with extra base hits

MADISON, WISC. - In a matchup with one of the top teams in Region 4, the Madison College softball team put together one of their best performances of the season in getting a split Saturday at Robert D. Goodman Softball Field against Black Hawk College. The WolfPack posted a 3-2 victory in the opener before falling late in an 11-5 setback to close out the day. Madison College maintains a 16-7 edge in head-to-head meetings with the Braves.

Game #1: Madison College 3, Black Hawk College 2

The first game was an absolute pitchers' duel, with hardly any hitters making their way onto the base paths. Black Hawk College twice left two runners stranded in the early goings, and it took until the bottom of the fourth inning for a runner to cross the plate. Freshman centerfielder Kelsey Meverden led the inning off with a double to center, and sophomore catcher Hayden Schabel brought her home with a single back up the middle.

The next inning saw second year Bailey Mester's hot bat kick things off with a single. A bunt from Dalana Trumpy advanced Mester over to second before designated player Shelby Brooks drove a triple to center, allowing Mester to score. Brooks then scored on a sacrifice fly from freshman Cathryn Zegadlo to make it a 3-0 WolfPack lead. 

Black Hawk College made the Pack sweat out the win as they pulled within a run with a pinch-hit, two-run homer off reliever Sophie Golembiewski. Fortunately, the freshman recovered and recorded a fielder's choice ground out and a strike out to end the game with the tying run on base.

Sophomore starter Lauryn Etienne (8-2) threw four shutout innings, scattering two hits and two walks, while striking out four batters. Golembiewski notched her first career save despite letting up a pair of run on four hits. The lefthander from Monroe, Wisconsin, did record three punch outs.

Brooks, a native of Plover, Wisconsin, was 2 for 2 with a run scored and a run batted in out of the leadoff spot. Mester, a former Belmont HS athlete, also went 2 for 2 with a run scored. Meverden and Schabel each had a hit, with Meverden scoring a run and Schabel driving in one.

Game #2: Black Hawk College 11, Madison College 5.

Game two was a little more back-and-forth, with the WolfPack jumping out to an early lead. Second baseman Cathryn Zegadlo's hard grounder up the middle in the first inning was the third hit of the frame for Madison College, and resulted in freshman Sadie Svendsen crossing home. Svendsen, a Huntley, Illinois, native, then delivered a run-scoring ground ball to center that scored sophomore Jeneya Marquez Perez to put the home team ahead 2-0. 

A three-run fourth inning for Black Hawk College (37-9) put the visitors on top. The Braves used two hits, including a two-run double, and two walks to earn their first lead of the day. However, Madison College had an answer in the bottom of the frame. Bailey Mester reached on an error and Shelby Brooks drew a walk, placing two runners on base for Svendsen. Facing a 1-2 count with two outs, she roped a triple to right field and cleared the bases, giving the WolfPack a 4-3 advantage.

But the Braves countered with back-to-back four-run innings in the fifth and sixth. Miscues and errors led to the four runs in the fifth, which included an error as part of a round tripper. A hit party of six base knocks led to the four runs in the sixth being scored in succession as the visitors expanded their lead to 11-5.

Svendsen did hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the sixth to score Mester and cap the scoring for Madison College (17-13).

Brooks and Svendsen, hitting number one and two in the WolfPack lineup, both went 2 for 3 in the game. Svendsen drove in a team-leading four runs for her second-highest RBI total in a game this season, while also scoring once. Brooks also scored a run. Zegadlo finished with a hit and a run batted in, with Mester scoring two runs and Marquez Perez one run despite neither registering a hit.

Gretta Lewis (5-3) took the loss after allowing seven runs, four of which were earned, on seven hits and two walks. She did strike out one batter. Sophie Golembiewski made her second appearance of the day as she worked the final two innings and was tagged for four runs on six hits.

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