NIACC drops pair to Iowa Western
Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
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Iowa Western Community College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
North Iowa Area Community College | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Final (8) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | R | H | E |
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Iowa Western Community College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
North Iowa Area Community College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
MASON CITY - The NIACC softball team dropped a pair of ICCAC contests to Iowa Western Saturday on the windy NIACC campus.
Iowa Western (37-19 overall, 22-18 in the ICCAC) won the first game 2-1 and the Reivers also took the second game 2-1 in eight innings.
In the first game, Iowa Western scored a single run in the seventh inning on a squeeze bunt by Myla Beckstrom, who plated AJ Gregory with the go-ahead run. Gregory led off the seventh inning with a triple to right-center field.
The Reivers' Brook Melnychuk struck out the first two NIACC batters in its half of the seventh inning, allowed a single to Macy Alexander and coaxed McKinzey Johnson into a ground out to first for the final out of the contest.
NIACC scored its lone run in the second inning when Johnson plated Kennadi Colbert with a double to left-center field.
NIACC's Laken Lienhard scattered four hits with a career-high 13 strikeouts and one walk.
Melnychuk struck out 13, walked two and allowed three hits.
In the second game, the Reivers scored a single run in the fourth inning and took the lead in the top of the eighth inning on a one-out, inside-the-park home run by Logan Corcoran.
NIACC's lone run was a solo home run by Lienhard leading off the sixth inning. It was Lienhard's 12th home run of the season, which ranks third on the school's single-season home run list.
In the seventh inning, NIACC's Bri Notermann tripled down the right-field line with one out. The Reivers were able to strand Notermann at third base and then scored their go-ahead run in the top of the eighth inning.
NIACC's Kayla Sproul struck out three and did not walk a batter.
NIACC (14-26, 12-26) and Iowa Western wrap up their 4-game series Sunday. The first game is slated to start at 11 a.m.