Sweet 16: Bulldogs Continue Winning Streak with Sweep of Saints

Game 1: Truman 12, Maryville 0 (5 innings) || Box Score
Game 2: Truman 5, Maryville 1 || Box Score

2014 Schedule || 2014 Season Stats || Career Stats

ST. LOUIS - - The Truman softball team won its 15^th and 16^th straight games on Saturday afternoon, dispatching Great Lakes Valley Conference West rival Maryville 12-0 and 5-1 to open a four-game, two-site weekend of play.

The Bulldogs (18-3, 10-0 GLVC) continued their winning ways in GLVC action, maintaining its unblemished record against a Saints (6-10, 2-2 GLVC) squad that put the Bulldogs behind in a game for the first time in more than a month of action during game two. Truman's 16 straight victories increases the second-longest winning streak in program history, trailing only an 18-game win streak from Feb. 25 – March 23, 2004 for the program's top mark.

Senior outfielder Kelsey Bollman took home top hitting honors as part of a team .404 effort from the plate on the day, as the Maquoketa, Iowa-native went 6-for-8 with a double, a home run, four runs and five RBI. Fellow senior outfielder Danielle Lewellen added four hits and a stolen base, while juniors Cate Simon and Andrea Klipsch notched three hits apiece.

Truman faces its stiffest test of the 2014 season thus far on Sunday afternoon, as it visits No. 13 Missouri-St. Louis for a noon doubleheader. The Tritons have won seven straight en route to a 14-2 overall (4-0 GLVC) record entering Sunday's play. UMSL, the reigning GLVC champions, run-ruled Quincy twice – 11-2 and 9-1 – at home on Saturday.

Game 1 Recap – Truman 12, Maryville 0 (5 innings)
Sophomore Kindra Henze carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning, and the Bulldog offense scored in four out of five times at the plate on the way to a 12-0 game one victory against the Saints.

The Bulldogs touched home twice in the first thanks to a pair of Saint miscues, building a 2-0 lead before Alexis Van Nostrand homered to right-center in the second to push the lead to 3-0. She added an RBI in the third, as did Lewellen, and Klipsch (2) to move the lever to 7-0, while Bollman (2), Jessica Van Nostrand, Liz Leath, and Whitney Richardson tallied fifth inning RBIs to ensure a run-rule victory.

Henze, meanwhile, ran her scoreless innings streak to 49 by not giving up a base hit until one out in the home half of the fifth. She finished the day with four strikeouts and allowed just two hits and a walk to improve to 10-1 on the year.

Game 2 Recap – Truman 5, Maryville 1
The Bulldogs trailed for just the first time in 35 days, but the bats woke up just in time to help push Truman to a 5-1 victory in the nightcap. Bollman went 4-for-4, while Kelsea Dorsey fanned 10 in the circle.

Neither team could produce much offensively until the fourth, when Maryville's Kelsey Kapitzke homered to stake the host Saints to a 1-0 lead.

However, Truman came alive in the sixth, as Klipsch, Bollman, Simon, and J.Van Nostrand all recorded base hits to start the inning and push across two runs. Leath then added a sac fly to give Truman a 3-1 cushion.

Dorsey then worked around a second and third with one out predicament in the home half – getting a pop-up and a strikeout to escape, before Bollman phoned in some insurance with a two-run blast – the 20^th of her career – in the top of the seventh.

Bollman rose her season batting average to .493 with her four-hit outing, while she and Simon each tallied two RBI. Dorsey, meanwhile, allowed just four hits while striking out 10 to move to 8-2 on the season.

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