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 Jordan Sinclair drove in the game's only run at Ferris. |
April 28, 2006
Big Rapids, Mich. - The Wayne State University softball team (28-20 overall, 14-3 GLIAC) moved closer to the 2006 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) regular-season title with a 1-0 triumph at Ferris State (24-23 overall, 8-9 GLIAC) Friday afternoon in the first game of a league doubleheader.
The GLIAC regular-season title is based on conference wins (not winning percentage). WSU leads with 14 league victories and controls its own destiny since Northwood, who is second with 13 wins, has only two league games remaining.
WSU senior pitcher Meghan Misiak (Livonia, Mich./Churchill) tossed her third shutout in 10 days (and fourth of the season) limiting the Bulldogs to just two hits. Misiak struck out six and walked four. Only one FSU runner advanced to third the entire game and that was with two outs in the sixth.
Misiak recorded 12 ground outs, one fly out, six strikeouts, plus had a caught stealing and a sac bunt. FSU had only five at-bats with runners on base.
Ferris hurler Sarah Mueller only allowed seven Warrior hits and an unearned run in suffering the defeat.
In the top of the third, sophomore outfielder Laura Guzman (Royal Oak, Mich./Bishop Foley) reached on an FSU error and was sacrificed to second by senior shortstop Sue Verbeem (LaSalle, Ont./Sandwich S.S.). Senior third baseman Jordan Sinclair (Chatham, Ont./Chatham Kent S.S.) followed with an RBI single up the middle scoring Guzman with game's only run.
Freshman second baseman Lisa Seymour (Davison, Mich.) led the WSU offensive attack with two hits, while five other Warrior batters had one hit apiece.
Notes:
Meghan Misiak recorded her second 1-0 win of the season, her first was on April 15 against Saginaw Valley.
Jordan Sinclair extended her hitting streak to six games and is nine-for-23 during the streak.
Misiak has not allowed an extra-base hit over her last six appearances (33 innings).
Over the last 10 days, Misiak has shutout Northern Kentucky (four-hitter), Indianapolis (three-hitter) and Ferris State (two-hitter).
Wayne State entered the week eighth in the nation in double plays per game (0.42) and turned one in the fourth inning, its 20th of the season.
