Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 La Crosse, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse softball team, ranked 23rd on this week's National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Top-25, split a pair of games with UW-Stevens Point Saturday afternoon at North Campus Park. The Eagles took the opener, 8-5, before dropping the nightcap, 4-2. UW-L moves to 25-11 overall and 10-4 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) while the Pointers are 14-23 overall and 4-10 in the conference. The Pointers now lead the all-time series, 40-34, with UW-L.
 
In the opener, Katie Klein (6-1) earned the win for the Eagles, pitching 5.0 scoreless innings, allowing two hits with four strikeouts. Megan Nelson started the game for UW-L and went 2.0 innings, allowing five runs on seven hits and two walks while striking out two.
 
The Pointers jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning on a two-run home run by Jordon Schreiner that scored Sam Raddant.
 
UW-L responded in its half of the first inning with five runs on four hits to take a 5-2 lead. Nelson hit an RBI single to rightfield to score Emily Holldorf to cut the lead to 2-1. Alecia Faber drove in Nelson with a single up the middle to tie the game and Mary Kate Pryor's double to right centerfield with the bases loaded scored Faber, Kendra Brown, and Greta Gumness for a 5-2 lead.
 
The Eagles added a run in the second inning to extend their lead to 6-2 off a Emilie Wiltzius' RBI single to score Brittany Baldwin.
 
UW-Stevens Point cut the deficit to 6-5 in the top of the third with three runs on three hits including another Schreiner two-run home run.  UW-L added two insurance runs to make it 8-5 in the bottom of the fifth as Pryor drove in Gumness and Faber with a two-out single.

Pryor went 2-for-3 with a career-high five RBI for UW-L while Faber and Wiltzius went 2-for-3 and Nelson went 2-for-4 for the Eagles.
 
Miranda Morrison (6-10) suffered the loss for UW-Stevens Point, pitching 1.0 inning, allowing five runs on four hits and two walks. Bre Ellison came in relief and pitched the final 5.0 innings, allowing three runs on five hits and one walk.  Schreiner went 2-for-3 with two home runs and four RBI for the Pointers. Raddant finished 2-for-4 with two runs and Paige Allen went 2-for-3 with one un.
 
In game two, it went three scoreless innings until the Pointers scored two runs in the top of the fourth on an Eagles' throwing error and a sacrifice fly by Ellison to plate Schreiner and take a 2-0 lead.  UW-L tied it up at 2-2 in the bottom of the fifth inning off Holldorf's two-run single to score Erin Maletzke and Brooke Baldwin.

UW-L had the go-ahead run on third base in the sixth inning, but a failed bunt attempt turned into the runner getting picked off third base.  Bailie Sheahan hit a go-ahead two-run double in the top of the seventh for the Pointers to take a 4-2 lead.

Kelli Anderson doubled and Katrina O'Keefe singled in the bottom of the seventh inning for UW-L, but Holldorf lined out to third to end the game.

Klein (6-2) suffered the loss for UW-L, pitching 2.2 innings, allowing two runs on two hits and one walk with three strikeouts. Jessie Carignan started the game and re-entered for the final out in the seventh inning. Her final line was 4.1 innings, allowing two runs, two hits and one walk and three strikeouts.

Faber finished 2-for-2 for the Eagles while Anderson went 2-for-3 and Holldorf 1-for-4 with two RBI.

Sydney Gorges (6-10) earned the win for UW-Stevens Point, pitching acomplete game.  She went 7.0 innings, allowing two runs and  nine hits with two strikeouts.

Raddant finished 2-for-4 with a double and one run scored while Sheahan went 1-for-4 with two RBI.

UW-L returns to action Sunday, April 26 hosting UW-Oshkosh in a doubleheader at noon.