Hastings College Softball v. Concordia 2024 // HC Bronco Athletics
HASTINGS – The Hastings College softball team picked up Great Plains Athletic Conference win No. 1 on Wednesday evening out at the Smith Complex by defeating Concordia 15-2 in game two after dropping game one 2-0.
Kyleigh Boever took to the mound in game one and did well to hold the Bulldogs in check while the offense was able to produce hits and base runners early on but couldn’t come up with the clutch hit to get on the board.
The Lady Broncos stranded two runners in the first, one in the second, another in the third and two more in the fourth. CUNE then took the lead on a solo home run from Kylie Shottenkirk in the fifth when Lexie Mudloff would get robbed of a RBI double on a diving catch by Delanie Voshell in right field.
HC would strand another in the bottom of the fifth and Concordia pushed another run home in the sixth to go up 2-0. Hastings had runners on again in the sixth but a strikeout ended that threat and then HC went down in order in the seventh to drop game one 2-0.
Hastings would go on to leave nine runners stranded in the game one loss while Boever pitched 7.0 innings giving up two runs on six hits.
Game two was a completely different story as the Lady Broncos bats took no time to come to life after CUNE took the early 1-0 lead. Isabel Tanabe started by reaching via an error and then Sam Skinner singled to second followed by a walk to Lauren Schneider to load the bases. Mudloff then reached on an error by the second baseman to tie the game 1-1.
Elana Gerhard then gave the Lady Broncos the lead when she reached on a fielder’s choice to plate Tanabe. Macie Mays then ripped a RBI double to right to make it 3-1 in favor of HC. Taylor Stuhr then singled home Gerhard followed by a RBI single from Katyn Kappler to make it 5-1.
Concordia did pick up a run in the third to make it a three run game but the flood gates opened up in the bottom half of the inning as Tanabe and Skinner started things off with RBI singles. Schneider forced a run home on a fielder’s choice, then Mudloff and Gerhard picked up RBI singles as HC was now leading 11-2. Stuhr came back in with a runner on and belted her first home run on the season depositing the ball over the left field fence to put the Lady Broncos up 13-2.
Hastings would tack on two more in the fourth and run away with game two 15-2 in five innings.
Angelina Lockhart had another solid outing throwing 5.0 innings giving up just two runs on three hits to pick up her fourth win of the year.
Skinner led the way in game two going a perfect 4-for-4 with a RBI. Mudloff, Gerhard and Stuhr each finished with two hits while Stuhr led the way with three RBIs.
Hastings is now 13-15 (1-5) on the year and will be back in action Saturday Apr. 6 hitting the road to take on Mount Marty for a doubleheader
