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Hafermann’s walk-off helps Mustangs to Monday sweep

BARTOW, Fla. — After getting swept at Tampa (Fla.) in a Saturday doubleheader, the Southwest Minnesota State University softball team returned to form Monday with a sweep of Point Park (Pa.) and Lynn (Fla.). SMSU fell 5-0 and 3-1 to Tampa, but ran away with an 11-1 win over the Pioneers in six innings and walked off Lynn 1-0 with a Kaylee Hafermann walk off and a Jordyn Marsh shutout.

SMSU improves to 14-8 on the year and next takes on Southern Florida with a doubleheader in Lakeland, Fla. today at 4 p.m.

GAME 1

Tampa 5, SMSU 0

Ramsey Hopp held Tampa scoreless for the game’s first three innings, but a pair of runs in the fourth gave Tampa the lead and another three in the fifth added some insurance for Tampa’s 5-0 win.

Hopp gave up 11 hits and a walk over five innings of work, dropping her record to 3-6 on the season. Jordan Bussey also tossed a scoreless seventh inning of relief.

Riley Kramolisch, Aliza Acker and Hopp each singled in the game, though none advanced past first base.

On the mound for Tampa, Gwen McGinnis improved to 8-2 on the year with a complete-game shutout, limiting SMSU to three baserunners with a strikeout and no walks.

Cam Feast led Tampa’s offense with three hits, and Makiah Brumbelow-Neal, Karlee Salisbury and Hannah Yetter added another two each, including a triple for Brumbelow-Neal and Yetter.

GAME 2

Tampa 3, SMSU 1

A three-run third inning for Tampa was too much for SMSU to overcome in its second game of the day on Saturday, falling 3-1 as Marsh was charged with her first loss of the year for SMSU.

Marsh scored SMSU’s lone run of the day in the top of the second, doubling to center before scoring on a wild pitch to give the Mustangs the lead.

Tampa responded in the fourth with a Kinnah Kreidler double and a Feast triple to tie it, and a Salisbury single and Abbey Johns double brought the score to 3-1.

Marsh pitched all six innings for SMSU, giving up three earned runs on four hits and a walk with four strikeouts. She now sits at 9-1 on the season.

Koda Travers threw a complete game for Tampa, giving up one earned run on three hits and a walk over seven innings.

Marsh’s double was SMSU’s lone extra-base hit of the day. Kramolisch also singled twice while Kenna Bretschneider walked, but Tampa out-hit SMSU 4-3 with three extra-base hits.

GAME 3 (6 inn.)

SMSU 11, Point Park 1

The Mustangs rallied ahead early in its Monday matchup against Point Park, taking the lead on a Grace Anderson solo home run to center field and adding another pair of runs in the frame on a Paris Van Dyke double to claim a 3-1 lead that it never relinquished.

Anderson led SMSU in the game with two hits, two walks and three RBIs. Van Dyke and Bretschneider each contributed another pair of hits, two RBIs and a walk and Kramolisch and Carley Stych each singled with a pair of walks.

Hopp brought her record to 4-6 on the season by pitching all six innings of the win, limiting Point Park to three hits with no walks and three strikeouts.

Jordan Bussey also pitched relief for the Mustangs but did not get an out. Leading 8-0, she walked Payton Halle on four pitches and threw a wild pitch before Hopp re-entered the game. Halle went on to score, charging a run to Bussey.

Acker hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth to give the Mustangs a 4-0 lead, but SMSU pulled ahead in the fifth with four more runs to double its lead. An RBI double from Lexi Ingalls, an RBI single from Kramolisch and a two-run single from Anderson brought the gap to 8-0.

SMSU added three more insurance runs in the sixth on a Bretschneider two-run single and an Ava Rud walk with the bases loaded and two outs.

Emma Henry took the loss for Point Park, falling to 0-2 on the year after surrendering six earned and two unearned runs on 10 hits with five walks. Ava Hubble gave up another three earned runs on a hit and six walks while getting two outs, and Makaila Cohen struck out the lone batter she faced.

Mia Arndt singled twice to account for two of Point Park’s three hits, and she drove in the lone run.

GAME 4

SMSU 1, Lynn 0

Marsh led off the bottom of the seventh with a single and was replaced on first by pinch runner Kenna Bretschneider. A Van Dyke sacrifice bunt advanced Bretschneider to second and an error on the play moved her over to third, where Hafermann drove her in on a ground out to walk off with the win.

SMSU and Lynn were locked in a scoreless tie through the game’s first six innings. Ellis Savan singled to put the go-ahead run on base after Marsh struck out Teagan Riley, but Marsh came up with another strikeout and induced a pop out to get out of the running unscathed and set the stage for SMSU to go ahead in the bottom of the frame.

Marsh struck out six batters over seven innings for SMSU, limiting Lynn to four hits with no walks. The win brings her record to 10-1 on the year.

Kramolisch and Marsh were the lone batters to reach base twice for SMSU, Kramolisch on a pair of singles and Marsh on a single and a walk. Anderson doubled for the game’s lone extra-base hit.

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