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03/13/06
Women's Softball - vs. Schreiner University #2
Saints open Texas trip with split at Schreiner
Senior Laura Heise pitched a dominant game in the opener of a twinbill at Schreiner University (TX), shutting down the host school as her team pushed 7 runs across the plate in a shutout win to begin their Texas swing. But 5 unearned runs against sophomore Rilee Dawson and Heise in game two sunk the Saints as they fell 7-6 and settled for a split in the doubleheader.
Heise was overpowering from the start in game one, striking out three in the 1st, then two each in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th innings. The first hit she allowed was a harmless single in the 5th, and not until the 6th was Schreiner able to move a runner past first base.
While the Saints offense jumped to a 2-0 lead that grew to 5-0 after 5 innings, Heise faced her first jam when Schreiner hit three consecutive singles with one out in the bottom of the 6th. But she curbed the threat with a strikeout for the second out and then got the final out on a fly ball to center field.
Heise finished her 7-inning gem with 14 strikeouts while allowing 5 hits and surrendering only 1 walk.
Offensively, Heise was 2 for 4 with a run and RBI. The Saints gathered only 10 hits in the game but manufactured a number of runs on the basebaths, successfully stealing 6 bases in 7 attempts.
Game two was a much different story for the Saints as Schreiner jumped out to a 7-2 lead after 3 innings. Only the initial two runs scored by Schreiner in the bottom of the 1st were earned, an error in the 2nd, then another in the 3rd inning cost the Saints 5 unearned runs.
St. Scholastica rallied with an unearned run themselves in the top half of the 4th and pushed 3 more across in the top of the 5th, all keyed in some way by freshman Amy Jensen.
Jensen led off the 4th and reached first base on an error, eventually coming around to score to cut the lead to 7-3. In the 5th, her two-out double scored Katie Brown and Kelly Cordie, and she later came around to score on a Joann Juten single, the lead now cut to 1.
After a one-out double in the 6th, Sara Kneisl was left stranded when Schreiner closed out the inning with a pair of long, fly-ball outs.
The Saints had one last chance in the top of the 7th with Brown and Jansen reaching on walks. With two outs, Missy Erickson singled but Schreiner was able to get the final out as Jansen was tagged at third before Brown could cross the plate.
Dawson took the loss but only allowed 3 runs -- 1 unearned -- on 3 hits with 2 walks and 2 strikeouts. On in relief, Heise had 4 strikeouts and 1 walk with 4 unearned runs in her 4 1/3 innings of work.
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