The Dordt Defender softball team split its games at the GPAC Tournament Midland Pod and survive to play an elimination game scheduled for Friday, May 2 at noon in Fremont against the host. Dordt lost its first game, a contest with Morningside that was suspended from Wednesday, 6-2 and the bounced back with eight unanswered runs to win an 8-1 decision over Hastings to end the day.
VS MORNINGSIDE BOX SCORE (PDF)
VS HASTINGS BOX SCORE (PDF)
MORNINGSIDE
The Mustangs scored two in the first before steady rain forced a suspension of the game and when it resumed
Julia Bremer reached on an error, allowing
Taylor Schneider to score.
Morningside added a pair of runs in the third and two in the fourth on a homerun. Dordt cut one run off the difference with
Ashtyn Grissom reaching on an error to get
Annabelle Hensley across. The game ended with Morningside prevailing 6-2.
THE NUMBERS
Dordt| 2R | 4H | 2E | 7LOB
Morningside | 6R | 5H | 2E | 5LOB
Dordt Leaders
Chloe Kreuz | 1-4 | 6ip | 4er | 4k
Lauren Steenstra | 1-3 |
Julia Bremer | 1-3 | 1rbi |
Peyton Whipple | 1-3 |
HASTINGS
The Hastings Broncos scored first and had the bases loaded with no one out but a double play and a strikeout ended the threat.
Dordt evened the score with a
Kacie Karsak single that scored
Annabelle Hensley in the second inning. Dordt then got four runs in the third inning with a
Chloe Kreuz sacrifice fly followed by a Hensley double down the rightfield line that scored
Brooklynn Cox and
Brooke Rule.
Ashtyn Grissom's single put Dordt up 5-1.
Dordt added a run in the fourth on a Cox single and
Kyleigh Reiter's double ended the scoring , getting
Brynn Torrenga and Karsak home for an 8-1 lead and eventual win.
Hastings did have a threat in the sixth with no outs and the bases loaded but a double play and a fly out ended the inning with Hastings getting no runs.
THE NUMBERS
Hastings | 1R | 4H | 0E | 6LOB
Dordt | 8R | 12H | 1E | 7LOB
Dordt Leaders
Brooke Rule | 2-4 | 2r
Booklynn Cox | 2-3 | 1r | 1rbi
Annabelle Hensley | 3-3 | 2r | 2rbi | 2b
Kacie Karsak | 2-2 | 1rbi | 2b
Kyleigh Reiter | 2-3 |1r | 2rbi | 2b
Alexa Kopaska | 5ip | 1er | 2k | 4h
NEXT
Dordt is scheduled to face Midland at 12pm on Friday, May 2 in an elimination game. The winner will advance to face Morningside in the first championship game at 2pm. A second championship game, if needed, will be played at 4pm. The winner of the Midland Pod will face Northwestern in a two out of three series on Saturday, May 3 at Orange City.
