Yellowjackets report: UWS softball sweeps final home series
Apr. 27—Wisconsin-Superior finished off the home portion of its softball schedule with three UMAC wins over the weekend against Crown. It was a busy week at NBC Spartan Sports Complex that started with Northwestern taking two out of three games against the Yellowjackets on Wednesday and Thursday.
On Saturday, the Yellowjackets earned a doubleheader sweep over Crown, 9-0 and 13-3. In the first game, pitcher Abby Mitchell pitched a five-inning three-hit shutout, while Larissa Snyder had an RBI triple and a two-run homer in a three-RBI game. Game 2 featured homers and four-RBI games from Delaney Johnson and Kylie Zwak (Duluth East) in a 13-hit UWS attack.
Friday, UWS opened the series with a 14-5 home win in which MyKenzie Leccia drove in four runs and Snyder three. Both were among five UWS players that had two-hit games. On Wednesday, the Yellowjackets split with Northwestern, losing the opener 4-1 and winning Game 2 5-4.
Sophia Otto's three-run homer in the bottom of the fourth inning of Game 2 game UWS the lead again after Northwestern scored four in the top half of the inning to erase an early 2-0 UWS lead. In Game 1, UWS was being no-hit through six innings before breaking up the shutout on Johnson's RBI single with two out. UWS (20-13, 10-5) finishes the regular season with a nonconference doubleheader at St.
Scholastica on Wednesday, April 29 before a UMAC trip to Minnesota Morris on Friday and Saturday. Wisconsin-Superior extended its win streak to eight games, six of them in UMAC play, with four wins over the weekend. After defeating local rival St.