Big Inning Dooms Wisconsin in Loss to Indiana
April 22, 2006 | Softball
A six-run fifth inning was too much for the Wisconsin softball team to overcome as it dropped its series finale with Indiana 9-1 Saturday afternoon at the IU Softball Field.
Eden Brock (14-9) suffered her second straight loss, giving up six runs on seven hits with four strikeouts in 4.1 innings in the circle. Freshman Leah Vanevenhoven came on in relief, throwing 2.2 innings, allowing three runs on four hits.
Indiana's Mariangee Bogado (14-8) earned her second win in as many days and struck out (four) in 3.2 innings without allowing a hit. Megan Roark started in the circle for the Hoosiers and surrendered one run on five with six strikeouts hits in 3.1 innings.
The Badgers (18-18, 3-7) took an early lead with two down in the first inning after Theresa Boruta legged out an infield bunt single and moved into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt from Katie Hnatyk. Joey Daniels stepped up next and delivered the clutch RBI double into right-center.
Daniels' third double of the season accounted for her second two-out RBI in as many days, giving her 14 on the season.
The Hoosiers (23-21-1, 5-8) responded in the top of the second when Lauren Hines took Brock's 1-0 offering over the wall in left-center to even the score at 1-1. The leadoff homer was Hines' ninth long ball of the season.
Wisconsin threatened to break the1-1 tie in the third when Katie Hnatyk reached on an infield single and moved around the bags with her fourth stolen base of the year and a passed ball. Up again with two outs and a runner in scoring position, Joey Daniels hit a hard line drive into left field, but was retired by Heather Hohs.
Indiana grabbed the lead in the top of the fifth when Janetta Deaven led off the frame with a home run to center field. The dinger was Deaven's first of the year and marked the third time this season Brock gave up two homers in a game.
The Hoosiers put five more on the board in the inning when Jennilee Huddleston ripped a single into right field to score Hohs and Bogado with one out. After forcing Brock from the game, Indiana got three more insurance runs in the form of Rachel Terry's second home run of the year, coming off Vanevenhoven.
Terry gave the Hoosiers two more runs in the seventh with a double to right-center, scoring Julia Hamilton and Richards to set the score at the 9-1 final.
The Badgers next travel to Purdue to take on the Boilermakers in a doubleheader Sunday starting at 11 a.m. CT in West Lafayette, Ind.
