Stenger homers as St. Ambrose earns split with Trinity Christian
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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St. Ambrose | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
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Trinity Christian | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 5 | 8 | 1 |
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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St. Ambrose | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
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Trinity Christian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 2 |
Kayla Stenger homered and Erica Ralfs earned her 13th win by allowing just one run over five innings as St. Ambrose won the first game of a doubleheader at Trinity Christian 6-5 Monday afternoon. The Trolls captured the second game 5-3.
Ralfs broke a scoreless tie with her two-run home run in the third inning. Shai Erdrich added an unearned run in the fifth when she scored on an error.
The Trolls (10-16-1, 5-5 CCAC) battled back with a run in the bottom of the fifth and another in the sixth to cut the score to 3-2.
SAU added some what proved to be much-needed insurance runs in the top of the seventh. Olivia Wells slashed a two-run single into right and pinch runner Kaylee King came around to score on an Alyssa Schumacher triple to push the lead to 6-2.
Those extra runs were just enough as Trinity Christian answered with three runs in the bottom of the seventh. With the potential tying run on first, Alyia Oliver got a flyball to close out the win.
Oliver pitched the final two innings after Ralfs surrendered six hits and one run over five innings. She struck out two.
Stenger and Schumacher each had two hits and Cassie Sprout scored a pair of runs in the win. Aleah Wight, Brittany Rabe and Sophia Delgado each also had a hit.
A slow start prevented the Bees from getting the sweep. Trinity pushed across three runs in the bottom of the first inning on their way to a 5-3 win in the second game.
The deficit was 4-0 before St. Ambrose got on the board in the fifth. Delgado scored on an error before Kaitlyn Sandora came in on a Wight sacrifice fly to cut the margin in half.
The Trolls extended their lead to 5-2 before the Bees put together a final charge in the seventh. Schumacher came through with a two-out single to score Olivia McClintock, and SAU had runners on the corners before TCC escaped with the win.
Oliver was charged with the loss. Maria Provenzano worked the final five innings, giving up just four hits and two runs.
McClintock, Erdrich and Delgado each had two hits.
St. Ambrose, now 23-6 overall and 7-3 in the CCAC, will play its fourth doubleheader in four days at St. Francis (Ill.) Tuesday at 5 p.m.