seniors softball
Jill Suellentrop
6
Saint Joseph's (IN) SJC 13-35, 6-23 GLVC
7
Winner Quincy QU 17-28, 10-19 GLVC
Saint Joseph's (IN) SJC
13-35, 6-23 GLVC
6
Final
7
Quincy QU
17-28, 10-19 GLVC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Saint Joseph's (IN) SJC 0 0 0 2 3 1 0 6 10 3
Quincy QU 0 1 1 4 0 0 1 7 12 1

W: Griskell, Emily (12-12) L: Demuth, Sara (1-8)

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Winner Saint Joseph's (IN) SJC 14-35, 7-23 GLVC
3
Quincy QU 18-28, 10-20 GLVC
Winner
Saint Joseph's (IN) SJC
14-35, 7-23 GLVC
9
Final
3
Quincy QU
18-28, 10-20 GLVC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 R H E
Saint Joseph's (IN) SJC 0 0 2 2 1 4 9 13 1
Quincy QU 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 7 2

W: Masters, Morgam (5-11) L: Quirk, Meghan (4-10) S: Whitaker, Ashley (1)

Game Recap: Softball | | Brendan Bittner

Hawks Walk Off In Opener, Split With Pumas on Senior Day

QUINCY, Ill. – The Quincy University softball team sent its senior class out with a split on Sunday (April 30), a day that saw just enough of a weather window in between downpours to (almost) play two full games. The Hawks beat Saint Joseph's, 7-6, in walkoff fashion in the opener, before falling, 9-3, in the nightcap, which was called in the sixth inning.
 
The games concluded the regular season for the Hawks (18-28, 10-20 GLVC) and they were the final games in SJC's program history.
 
Freshman Kay Bettendorf (Ballwin, Mo./Parkway South) got the Hawks started in the second inning with a one-out homer to the opposite field. It was her first career home run.
 
The Hawks made it 2-0 in the third as senior Kaylee Jones (Muscatine, Iowa/Muscatine CC) doubled and scored on an RBI single by senior Samantha Goble (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Mt. Pleasant).
 
The Pumas (14-35, 7-23 GLVC) tied the game in the fourth on Ashley Whitaker's two-run double.

Quincy looked to take command in the bottom of the inning by scoring four runs. Bettendorf plated the first run with an RBI double and sophomore Jessica Poore (Grover, Mo./Eureka/SIUE) followed with a run-scoring single. Poore went to third on two wild pitches and scored when Jones lined out, but the SJC second baseman threw the ball away trying to double off sophomore Jackie Farbak (New Lenox, Ill./Lincoln-Way) at first. Greene's RBI double scored Farbak from first to cap the inning.
 
Saint Joseph's shortstop Briana Wagner socked a three-run homer in the fifth to cut Quincy's lead to 6-5 in the fifth inning. Amanda Melzoni's RBI knock in the sixth tied the game at 6.
 
QU starter Emily Griskell (Oak Forest, Ill./Carl Sandburg) retired the Pumas in order in the seventh to keep the score tied.
 
Goble led off the bottom of the inning with a double to the gap and went to third on a bunt single by junior Raigen Schwartz (Walnut Hill, Ill./Centralia/Kaskaskia CC). Sophomore Dana Walsh (Wonder Lake, Ill./McHenry) followed that up with a grounder to second, but Goble beat the throw home for the win.
 
Griskell (12-12) evened her season record, allowing six runs on 10 hits. She struck out four and walked two in her 18th complete game. Sara Demuth (1-8) suffered the loss, allowing one run on four hits in 2 1/3 innings of relief.
 
Jones, Greene, Goble, Schwartz and Bettendorf each finished with two hits as the Hawks out-hit the Pumas, 12-10.
 
In Game 2, Wagner opened the scoring in the third inning with a two-run homer. SJC tacked on two more in the top of the fourth to make it 4-0.
 
The Hawks scored twice in the bottom of the fourth as Greene and Goble singled and moved into scoring position on a sac bunt. Walsh then singled in a run to put runners on the corners Walsh and Goble then executed a double steal to make it 4-2.
 
SJC got a run back in the fifth on Amber Antczak's RBI single before junior Meghan Quirk (Minooka, Ill.) escaped a bases-loaded jam to keep the score at 5-2.
 
The Hawks tacked on a run in the bottom of the fifth to make it 5-3, but the Pumas blew the game open with four runs in the top of the sixth, two coming on Wagner's double and two more on a homer by Antczak.
 
A heavy rainstorm moved in during the bottom of the sixth, forcing the umpires to call the game.

Quirk (4-10) suffered the loss while Morgan Masters (5-11) earned the win. Whitaker pitched the final 1 1/3 innings to earn her first save.
 
Greene was the only QU player with two hits as the Pumas out-hit the Hawks, 13-7.
 
Jones, Greene, Goble, Krista Reese (O'Fallon, Mo./Living Word Christian), Tiffany Harbison (Waterloo, Ill.) and Brianna Chapman (St. Louis, Mo./Incarnate Word) were all recognized prior to the games for Senior Day.
 
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