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 Junior Robyn Haig had a walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh. |
April 23, 2007
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. - The 25th-ranked Wayne State University softball squad won its 30th game of the season in dramatic fashion at Lake Superior Monday evening. Junior Robyn Haig (Waterloo, Ont.) smacked a three-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh snapping a 10-10 deadlock.
The Warriors have won at 30 games for the second straight season and for the sixth time in the last seven years.
The Lakers scored 10 runs in the first three innings including a seven-run third inning with nine of the runs coming against WSU starter Nicole Abel (Kitchener, Ont.).
WSU trailed 1-0 after the top of the first, 3-2 after 1 1/2 innings and 10-5 after 2 1/2 innings but kept battling as the Motown crew scored two in the first, three in both the second and third innings, two more in the fourth.
Neither team was able to score in the fifth or the sixth.
In the bottom of the seventh, Sarah Berry (Acton, Ont.) reached on an error and Meredith Boxberger (Canton, Mich.) drew a walk setting up Haig's dramatic walk-off home run.
Sarah Ytsma (Chatham, Ont.) relieved Abel in the third and allowed one run on three hits in three innings. Molly Yetman (Cambridge, Ont.) entered in the top of the sixth with the go-ahead run on second and two outs and promptly struck out all four batters she faced.
The two wins move Wayne State into a tie-for-third with Gannon (who WSU swept) and Mercyhurst (split). The Warriors are a game behind Ferris State and three games behind Grand Valley.
WSU entertains Northern Kentucky for a non-league doubleheader on Wednesday before hosting six league games this weekend with twinbills against Ashland (Friday), Findlay (Saturday) and Ferris State (Sunday).
