quirk
1
Quincy QU 10-13, 4-5 GLVC
2
Winner Missouri S&T MST 13-17, 5-4 GLVC
Quincy QU
10-13, 4-5 GLVC
1
Final
2
Missouri S&T MST
13-17, 5-4 GLVC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 R H E
Quincy QU 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 0
Missouri S&T MST 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 1

W: English, Avery (7-8) L: Quirk, Meghan (1-2)

7
Quincy QU 10-14, 4-6 GLVC
13
Winner Missouri S&T MST 14-17, 6-4 GLVC
Quincy QU
10-14, 4-6 GLVC
7
Final
13
Missouri S&T MST
14-17, 6-4 GLVC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Quincy QU 0 5 0 0 1 0 1 7 18 1
Missouri S&T MST 0 0 1 2 2 8 X 13 16 0

W: Viets, Kati (7-8) L: Griskell, Emily (7-6)

Game Recap: Softball | | Brendan Bittner

Miners Win In 11 Innings, Take Doubleheader From QU

QUINCY, Ill. – The Quincy University softball team dropped a heartbreaker in Game 1, 2-1 in 11 innings, before losing the nightcap, 13-7, in a Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader against Missouri S&T in Rolla on Saturday (April 1) afternoon.
 
The 11-inning game was the Hawks' first defeat in four extra-inning games this season. The doubleheader defeat also snapped a string of five straight splits in twinbills.
 
In Game 1, the Hawks (10-14, 4-6 GLVC) got an outstanding pitching performance from junior Meghan Quirk (Minooka, Ill.), who threw a complete game, giving up just two runs on eight hits in 10 2/3 innings. She struck out seven and walked five.
 
The Hawks, who left the bases loaded in the first inning, broke a scoreless tie in top of the fifth with a two-out rally. Senior Kaylee Jones (Muscatine, Iowa/Muscatine CC) and junior Abby Burton (Springfield, Ill./Glenwood) each singled and senior Lindsey Greene (Ottawa, Ill.) drove in Jones for the first run of the game.
 
Quirk did not allow a hit until the fifth, but pitched around that leadoff single. The Miners (14-17, 6-4 GLVC) tied the score in the sixth on an RBI single by Kelly Heckemeyer.
 
Quirk and S&T starter Avery English kept each lineup in check until the bottom of the 11th when English helped her own cause with a game-winning RBI single to the gap in left-center that scored Carley Hamann.
 
English (7-8) earned the win, scattering 12 hits over 11 innings. She walked one and struck out eight. Quirk (1-2) suffered the tough-luck loss.
 
Burton led the QU offense with three hits. All 20 combined hits in the game were singles.
 
The second game started off promising for Quincy, which scored five times in the second inning and the entire rally coming with two outs. Greene ripped a two-run single to center field to give the Hawks a 2-0 lead. Sophomore Jackie Farbak (New Lenox, Ill./Lincoln-Way) followed with an RBI infield single and sophomore Kylie Powers (Oak Forest, Ill.) tacked on a two-run single to give QU a 5-0 advantage.
 
Junior starter Emily Griskell (Oak Forest, Ill./Carl Sandburg) kept the Miners in check in the first two innings, but the hosts scored a single run in the third and two runs in the fourth to make it 5-3.
 
Quincy got a run back in the fifth as freshman Kay Bettendorf (Ballwin, Mo./Parkway South) hit a lead-off double and eventually scored on a passed ball.
 
The Miners cut it to 6-4 in the fifth with a two-out rally and then scored eight times in the sixth to take the lead and then put the game out of reach. Greene's RBI single in the seventh capped the scoring.
 
The teams combined for 34 hits in the nightcap, but just one of the Hawks' 18 knocks went for extra bases. Greene was 3-for-5 with three RBI and a run. Bettendorf was 4-for-4 with two runs scored while Farbak went 3-for-5 with an RBI.
 
Griskell (7-6) tossed a complete game, but took the loss. Kati Viets (7-8) earned the complete-game win for the Miners.
 
The Hawks will return to the field on Sunday (April 2) to take on Drury in Springfield, Mo. first pitch is set for noon.
 
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