sb
Nicholas Kedzuch
7
Winner Saint Joseph's SJC 18-21, 11-14 GLVC
5
Quincy QU 18-27, 7-18 GLVC
Winner
Saint Joseph's SJC
18-21, 11-14 GLVC
7
Final
5
Quincy QU
18-27, 7-18 GLVC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Saint Joseph's SJC 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 7 12 0
Quincy QU 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 5 7 2

W: Cates, Jessica (6-4) L: Armstrong, Murphi (7-13)

0
Saint Joseph's SJC 18-22, 11-15 GLVC
3
Winner Quincy QU 19-27, 8-20 GLVC
Saint Joseph's SJC
18-22, 11-15 GLVC
0
Final
3
Quincy QU
19-27, 8-20 GLVC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Saint Joseph's SJC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3
Quincy QU 0 0 0 0 0 3 X 3 4 1

W: Harbison, Tiffany (5-7) L: Wagner, Briana (4-5)

Game Recap: Softball | | Brendan Bittner

Lady Hawks Send Out Seniors With Win

QUINCY, Ill. – The Quincy University softball senior class went out on a high note on Sunday (April 26) in the team's regular season finale at the Mart Heinen Softball Complex. The Lady Hawks blanked Saint Joseph's, 3-0, in Game 2 following a 7-5 extra-inning defeat in the day's opener.
 
The Lady Hawks sent out their eight seniors with a win as the team capped its season with a 19-27 overall record and an 8-20 mark in Great Lakes Valley Conference play.
 
Sophomore starter Tiffany Harbison (Waterloo, Ill.) fashioned a gem in Game 2, twirling a four-hit shutout with a career-high 11 strikeouts.
 
The right-hander recorded five strikeouts in the first two innings before running into trouble in the third. A single, an error and a walk loaded the bases with one out, but Harbison recorded a strikeout and induced a pop out to escape without damage.
 
Quincy, meanwhile, had trouble dealing with Saint Joseph's starter Briana Wagner, who took a no-hitter into the fifth before senior Jill Suellentrop (St. Peters, Mo./Fort Zumwalt East) broke it up with a one-out single. The Lady Hawks still failed to score and the game went to the sixth scoreless.
 
Senior Kelsey Ley (Quincy, Ill./Quincy Notre Dame) snapped the tie by sending out the first pitch of the bottom of the sixth for a home run to left-center. She is fourth on QU's all-time home runs list with 24.
 
Junior Rachel Scrum (Maryville, Ill./UT-Martin) reached on an error and alertly sprinted to second as Wagner failed to enter the circle and no one covered second base. She scored on an RBI single through the right side by senior Emma Topps (Downers Grove, Ill./South). Senior Jessica Grimes (St. Louis, Mo./Cor Jesu) would cap the inning with a two-out, two-strike single that scored Topps and gave QU a 3-0 lead.
 
Harbison (5-7) pitched around a one-out single in the seventh to preserve the shutout, recording her 11th strikeout to end the game. Harbison walked only one and needed 106 pitches to get her second career complete game shutout. Wagner (4-5) took the loss, allowing three runs (two earned) on three hits in five innings.
 
In Game 1, the Pumas took control early scoring four runs through the first four innings against QU senior Murphi Armstrong (Streator, Ill.).
 
The Lady Hawks got on the board in the fourth with a two-out rally as sophomore Lindsey Greene (Ottawa, Ill.) drew a walk and scored on a double by senior Mackenzie Fox (Beardstown, Ill./Heartland College).
 
Another two-out rally in the fifth cut the lead to 4-3 as senior Alanna Viken (Mazon, Ill./Seneca) singled before Ley ripped a line-drive homer to center field for her team-best 11th home run of the season.
 
In the sixth, Topps led off the bottom of the sixth to tie the game at 4-4. It was Topps' fourth home run of the season.
 
Meanwhile, Armstrong was cruising, retiring her eighth straight batter for the first out of the top of the ninth. The Pumas (18-22, 11-15 GLVC) then hit back-to-back singles before freshman Emily Griskell (Oak Forest, Ill./Carl Sandburg) came on to pitch. She immediately recorded the second out, but after a walk loaded the bases Kylie Hirchak ripped a two-run single. Emma Littrel stretched the lead to 7-4 with an RBI single before Griskell was able to get out of the inning with a groundout.
 
Greene led off the bottom of the ninth with her fifth home run of the season to trim the deficit to 7-5. Grimes then singled with one out, but reliever Jessica Cates ended the game by inducing a pop out and a ground out.
 
Armstrong (7-13) took the loss, allowing six runs on 10 hits in 8 1/3 innings. She walked three and struck out two. Cates (6-4) earned the win with 2 1/3 innings of relief, allowing one run.
 
Grimes was the only Quincy player with two hits while Greene went 1-for-3 with a homer, a walk and two runs scored.
 
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