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Halted Game Box Score
 
Non-Conference Box Score

SOMERS, Wis. (Apr. 13, 2016)-- The University of Wisconsin-Parkside softball team finished off their halted game from March 29^th with a three-run walk-off homerun, winning 10-7 over Great Lakes Valley rival Lewis University, and in a follow up non-conference tilt, the Rangers fell 13-4.
 
The second game of Parkside's doubleheader against Lewis was halted after six and one half innings with a tie score of 7-7 on March 29 due to darkness.  The game started 15 days ago with the Rangers taking an early lead in the second inning after Cassie Walek hit a three-run blast to left field.  The Flyers took a run back the next inning with a solo homerun.  The Green and White tacked on four more runs in the fourth after two hits, two errors, and one batter hit by a pitch.  Lewis came back with a two run inning of their own including a homerun, cutting the Ranger lead to 7-3.
 
As darkness began to set in, the seventh inning got underway.  The Flyers put up four runs to tie the game, and the game was halted by the officials at 7-7.  The game continued more than two weeks later, but the Rangers wasted no time closing it out.  Courtney Ellingson lead off the resumed game with a double to right field, and Raegan Fingerman took her place at first base after taking a pitch into her upper back.  As Parkside's third batter of the inning, Alexis Simone cleared the bases with a no-doubter to left center field, and giving the Rangers the 10-7 conference win.
 
Amber Ramos picked up her first win of the season from the halted game, and Walek went 2-3 from the plate with 3 RBI's.
 
It was decided that the two teams would play again as long as the halted game ended within ten innings.  After a short break, the two teams played a full non-conference game.  Lewis came out swinging as their leadoff batter hit a double to left field, the first of eight doubles for the Flyers, and eventually scored the first of four runs in the first inning for the team.  Rachel Seefeldt got one back for the Rangers by hitting a frozen rope over the fence in left center in the bottom half of the first.  Lewis racked up two more runs, off of two more doubles, in the top of the second inning and expanded their lead to 6-1.  Parkside chipped away at the Flyers again in the second, after Paige Schmittling laid down a sacrifice bunt to score Ellingson from third.  In the top of the fourth, Lewis padded their lead with four more runs including two homeruns.
 
The Rangers continued to fight in the bottom of the fourth.  Caressa DeRossett led off with single to left, and Courtney Ellingson drove her home with a two-run homer to left center.  Parkside had cut the lead to 10-4.  Lewis proved to be too much by closing out the game with three more runs in the fifth, and collected the non-conference win 13-4.
 
The Rangers offense was led by Rachel Seefeldt, who went two for three including her solo homerun in the first.  Carly Dundee picked up the loss in the non-conference game.
 
The Rangers complete their home stand this weekend with doubleheaders against William Jewell College and Rockhurst University on April 16 and 17, respectively.  The first pitch is at noon both Saturday and Sunday.