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9
Truman State TSU 26-9
11
Winner NW Missouri State NWMSU 20-19
Truman State TSU
26-9
9
Final
11
NW Missouri State NWMSU
20-19
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Truman State TSU 0 0 2 2 1 0 1 1 2 9 13 2
NW Missouri State NWMSU 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 1 4 11 15 1

W: Vitosh,Abbie (1-4) L: Dorsey, Kelsea (13-2)

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Winner Truman State TSU 27-9
8
NW Missouri State NWMSU 20-20
Winner
Truman State TSU
27-9
9
Final
8
NW Missouri State NWMSU
20-20
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Truman State TSU 2 0 3 0 0 4 0 9 17 0
NW Missouri State NWMSU 0 0 0 4 2 2 0 8 13 0

W: Henze, Kindra (14-7) L: Vitosh,Abbie (1-5)

Game Recap: Softball | | Tyler Madsen, Athletics Communications

Bulldogs and Bearcats Split Wild Doubleheader

Game 1 Box Score (Northwest Mo. State, 11-9; 9 inn.)
Game 2 Box Score (Truman, 9-8)
 
MARYVILLE, Mo. - - The Truman softball team batted a collective .441, hitting six home runs and adding four doubles, but a ferocious late rally in game one by Northwest Missouri State prevented the Bulldogs from a sweep on Tuesday afternoon.
 
The Bulldogs (27-9) stepped out of conference play and split a pair of games against former-MIAA rival Northwest Missouri State (20-20) in Maryville. A back-and-forth game one favored the last at-bat of NWMSU by an 11-9 score in nine innings, before Truman rallied and then held on for a 9-8 win in game two.
 
As a team, Truman went 30-for-68 at the plate, with senior Liz Leath and sophomore Lex Van Nostrand each recording six hits on the day. The duo, along with senior Andrea Klipsch, each hit two home runs in the doubleheader.
 
Junior Kindra Henze pitched in both games of the twin-bill, earning a win in 7.2 innings of total work, as she struck out eight and walked just one.
 
Truman hits the road for the final time during the 2015 regular season this Saturday and Sunday when the purple and white visit Bellarmine and nationally-ranked Southern Indiana for a pair of games. Saturday's first pitch at BU is set for 11 a.m. (CDT) in Louisville, Ky.
 
Game 1 Recap
The game saw just two zeroes on the board for a half-inning from the third inning on, as Northwest Missouri used a walk-off two-run homerun to defeat Truman 11-9 in nine innings in the opening game on Tuesday.
 
Truman led 5-1 through the top of the fifth inning, before NWMSU rallied to even the score at 5-apiece through six complete. Each team scored one in the seventh, before doing the same with the international tiebreaker (a runner placed on second base to start the inning) in effect in the eighth. The Bulldogs cashed in with a two-run home run by Van Nostrand in the top of the ninth to build a 9-7 lead, before Northwest singled home a run with two outs to cut Truman's lead to 9-8. A single, a double, and a home run later, the ball game was over, as the Bearcats rallied for the extra-inning victory.
 
The Bulldogs had 13 hits in the game, including a 4-for-4 game with four RBI for Van Nostrand. Leath, senior Ally McReynolds, and freshman Jamie Fowle linked with Van Nostrand for a combined 11-for-16 line from the top four in the batting order. Henze started and pitched five innings, before being relieved by junior Kelsea Dorsey, who took just her second loss of the season after giving up four earned runs in 3.2 innings of work.
 
Game 2 Recap
For the second straight game, an early Truman lead evaporated, but this time, a four-run sixth put the Bulldogs on top for good in a 9-8 win to salvage a split in Maryville.
 
Truman wasted no time jumping on NWMSU in game two, as Klipsch and Van Nostrand homered in succession in the top of the first to go up 2-0. However, after Northwest rallied to take a 6-5 lead through five, another big inning – centered around Klipsch's second round-tripper of the game – pushed Truman ahead by a 9-6 score.
 
The Bearcats would draw to within two, but Henze, who came on in relief of Kadie Orenstein, closed the door with 2.2 innings of relief work to earn win No. 14 on the season.
 
The top half of the Truman lineup was dynamite for the second straight game, as the top five hitters – the four from game one along with Klipsch – combined to bat .590 (13-for-22) with four home runs, three doubles, eight RBI and eight runs scored.
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