griskell
Mathew Kirby
2
William Jewell WJC 19-20, 9-10 GLVC
4
Winner Quincy QU 13-22, 7-14 GLVC
William Jewell WJC
19-20, 9-10 GLVC
2
Final
4
Quincy QU
13-22, 7-14 GLVC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
William Jewell WJC 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 5 1
Quincy QU 0 0 0 0 1 3 X 4 8 0

W: Griskell, Emily (9-11) L: Biondo, Anna (13-6)

1
Winner William Jewell WJC 20-20, 10-10 GLVC
0
Quincy QU 13-23, 7-15 GLVC
Winner
William Jewell WJC
20-20, 10-10 GLVC
1
Final
0
Quincy QU
13-23, 7-15 GLVC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
William Jewell WJC 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 5 1
Quincy QU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3

W: Lewis, Sarah (6-6) L: Quirk, Meghan (2-7)

Game Recap: Softball | | Brendan Bittner

Hawks Pitch Their Way To Split Against Cardinals

QUINCY, Ill. – The Quincy University softball team got a couple quality pitching performances and snapped a seven-game losing streak, splitting a GLVC doubleheader with William Jewell on Saturday (April 15) afternoon at the Mart Heinen Softball Complex. The Hawks won Game 1, 4-2, but were shut out in the finale, 1-0.
 
Junior Emily Griskell (Oak Forest, Ill./Carl Sandburg) toed the rubber in Saturday's opener. She stranded three runners on the bags in the top of the first before keeping the Cardinals (20-20, 10-10 GLVC) hitless over the next three innings.
 
The game was scoreless until the fifth when the Cardinals broke through on a two-run double by Madi Giles.
 
The Hawks (13-23, 7-15 GLVC) cut the deficit in half in the bottom of the inning. Sophomores Dana Walsh (Wonder Lake, Ill./McHenry) and Jackie Farbak (New Lenox, Ill./Lincoln-Way) both reached base, and with two outs, Giles misplayed a ball off the bat of senior Kaylee Jones (Muscatine, Iowa/Muscatine CC) in center field, allowing Walsh to score an unearned run charged to starter Anna Biondo.
 
The Cardinals nearly added an insurance run in the sixth, but Walsh threw out Emily Hoover trying to score on a sac fly attempt to center field to end the inning.
 
The Hawks still trailed 2-1 heading into the bottom of the sixth. Junior Raigen Schwartz (Walnut Hill, Ill./Centralia/Kaskaskia CC) led off with a single, but two strikeouts followed. Walsh then singled and junior Abby Burton (Springfield, Ill./Glenwood) loaded the bases with a walk. Farbak followed with a two-run, go-ahead single that gave QU a 3-2 lead. An RBI single by Jones made it 4-2.
 
Griskell kept the Cardinals off the board in the seventh despite a two-out single, getting Madesen Gage to ground out to end the game.
 
Griskell (9-10) earned the win by allowing just two runs on five hits with three walks and three strikeouts in a complete game effort. Biondo (13-6) took the loss with four runs allowed in six innings.
 
Farbak, Jones and Walsh had two hits each as Quincy out-hit Jewell, 8-5.
 
Junior Meghan Quirk (Minooka, Ill.) twirled a gem in Saturday's finale. She allowed just a home run to WJC pitcher Sarah Lewis to lead off the fourth inning.
 
Quirk (2-7) stranded the bases loaded in the first inning and allowed only five hits in the game. She walked two and struck out four in the defeat.
 
Lewis (6-6) kept the QU offense off-balance all game, surrendering just three singles while striking out four and walking none. Only once did a QU runner reach third base. That came in the fourth, but Lewis induced a ground out to get out of the inning.
 
Schwartz had two of the Hawks' three hits in the game.
 
The Hawks will now hit the road on Wednesday (April 19) to play Lincoln in a nonconference doubleheader. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m. in Jefferson City, Mo.
 
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