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Henze15_NU1
6
Winner Truman TSU 5-4
1
Ferris State FSU 2-15
Winner
Truman TSU
5-4
6
Final
1
Ferris State FSU
2-15
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Truman TSU 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 6 9 0
Ferris State FSU 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 0

W: Dorsey, Kelsea (4-1) L: Cara DeLange (0-0)

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Northwood NU 0-7
9
Winner Truman TSU 6-4
Northwood NU
0-7
1
Final
9
Truman TSU
6-4
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 R H E
Northwood NU 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 5 0
Truman TSU 0 1 0 0 3 5 9 12 0

W: Henze, Kindra (2-3) L: Vanessa Ewing (0-0)

Game Recap: Softball | | Tyler Madsen, Athletics Communications

Softball Smashes Path to Two More Florida Wins

CLERMONT, Fla. - - A well-rounded team effort helped the Truman softball team match a season-best watermark of two games above .500, as the bats supplied eight home runs, and the pitching staff gave up just two runs in 13 innings in a pair of victories on Monday afternoon.
 
The Bulldogs (6-4) won two key regional contests, downing Ferris (Mich.) State 6-1 in the opener before dropping Northwood (Mich.) 9-1 in the nightcap.
 
Truman will close its time at the Florida Invitational with two games on Tuesday, facing Lynn (Fla.) at 3 p.m. (EDT) and Millersville (Pa.) at 7 p.m. (EDT).
 
Game 1 (Truman 6-1)
After falling behind 1-0 in the second inning, Truman got a pair of two-run shots from Andrea Klipsch and a two-run blast from Liz Leath to break open a 6-1 win against Ferris State.
 
Ferris got on the board with a sacrifice fly on a full pond in the top of the second, but in the top of the third, the Bulldogs took the lead on Klipsch's first home run of the season. Then, in the seventh, Truman burst open the floodgates, as Klipsch went deep for another two-run blast before Liz Leath belted her third of the year two batters later for two more runs and a 6-1 lead.
 
Truman finished with nine hits, getting two apiece from Klipsch, Leath, and Jamie Fowle, while Kelsea Dorsey tossed a complete game for her fourth win of the season in five decisions. She struck out seven and walked just one. Alexis VanNostrand reached base three times and recorded three stolen bases.
 
Game 2 (Truman 9-1; 6 inn.)
A knotted game at one-all was detonated in the fifth, as a Bulldog barrage of homers led to a walk-off run-rule decision for the Bulldogs in a 9-1 final.
 
Devin Gudehus got things going in the second inning, when her RBI single scored Ally McReynolds – who reached via a base on balls following a nine-pitch at-bat. Northwood countered in the top of the third when an RBI double of its own, bringing the score even at 1-1.
 
The game progressed to the fifth when, after Jamie Fowle singled with one out, Klipsch sent her third blast of the day over the fence for a 3-1 Truman lead. Two batters later, Leath added a solo home run to push Truman's edge to 4-1.
 
Following a 3-up, 3-down top of the sixth by Bulldog starter Kindra Henze, the 'Dogs went back to work in the bottom half, as Haley Wells' lead-off fly ball hit the top of the fence, bounced straight up in the air and landed on the outside for a 5-1 lead. After a pair of strikeouts, Fowle singled, and Klipsch walked to put two on for VanNostrand. VanNostrand then knocked her third home run of the year out to left, pushing the lead to 8-1, and preluding Leath's second home run of the game, third of the day, and fifth of the year for a game-ending 9-1 score.
 
VanNostrand accounted for three of Truman's 12 base hits and added two more swipes, while Fowle and Leath added second-straight multi-hit games.
 
Henze struck out four and gave up just five hits in her second win of the season.
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