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Yellowjackets Drop Two in Season Finale

Nicolle Gross
Box Score 1 | Box Score 2


The Yellowjackets entered the final day of competition with a lot of mileage under their belt.  In the finale of a five-day road trip, the Yellowjackets play on the field resembled a lot of exhaustion.  Traveling from hotel to hotel the past week got the best of the Yellowjackets during the final day of the season as they dropped a pair of games to UW-Oshkosh 17-3 and 13-3.
 
UW-Oshkosh 17, Yellowjackets 3
 
The Titans carved apart the Yellowjackets from begin to end, which started when Hayden Krueger doubled in the first inning.  Katie Koepsel followed that with an RBI-double that scored Krueger to give the Titans a 1-0 lead.  Tess Fadness later knocked home Koepsel with a single to left to make the score 2-0. 
 
The Yellowjackets cut the lead in half in the second inning when Sarah Hendrickson (Duluth, Minn./Denfeld) walked and ended up at third base on Kristen Haider (Dassel, Minn./Dassel-Cokato)'s sacrifice bunt.  Hendrickson later scored on Elle Niemela (Cokato, Minn./Dassel-Cokato)'s ground out to make the score 2-1. 
 
That was the closest things got as the Titans exploded with a five-run second inning.  Emily Mallek scored when Taylor Loew reached on an error to extend the Titan lead to 3-1.  Things got worse when Haley Bayreuther hit a solo home run to make the score 4-1.  The Titans closed out the scoring for the inning when Koepsel, Fadness, and Kassie Krueger came up with RBI hits to widen the score to 7-1. 
 
The Yellowjackets added two more runs in the second inning when Nicolle Gross (Coleraine, Minn./Greenway) hit a two-run home run to narrow the scoring margin to 7-3.  However, that was all the Yellowjackets were able to come up with.
 
Things got from bad to worse for the Yellowjackets in the sixth inning when the Titans struck with ten runs.  Koepsel fueled the Titans in the sixth with a pair of doubles that scored three runs.  Kassie Krueger, Hayden Krueger, and Balke also helped the Titans with RBI hits to help extend their lead to 17-3.
 
Hendrickson took the pitching loss for the Yellowjackets.  She gave up ten runs (six earned) on 16 hits in 5 1/3 innings of work.
 
UW-Oshkosh 13, Yellowjackets 3
 
The Titans carried their energy over into game two as they dominated from start to finish in their 13-3 rout of the Yellowjackets.
 
Bayreuther continued her strong day at the plate for the Titans when she led off the first inning with a double.  This set up Hayden Krueger's two-run home run to give the Titans a 2-0 lead.  
 
The Yellowjackets tied the game 2-2 in the second inning when Elle Niemela (Cokato, Minn./Dassel-Cokato) and Sally Linzmeier (Valders, Wis./Valders) led off with back-to-back singles and advanced a base on Haley McNeil (Hill City, Minn./Hill City)'s sacrifice bunt.  A wild pitch scored Niemela to make the score 2-1 while Linzmeier advanced to second.  Anna Morgan (South Range, Wis./Northwestern) later knocked in Linzmeier on an infield single to knot the game at two runs apiece. 
 
The third inning saw the Titans add a pair of runs when Bayreuther singled and came around to score on Hayden Krueger's double to give the Titans a 3-2 lead.  Fadness later drove in Krueger with a single to extend the UW-Oshkosh lead to 4-2. 
 
The Titans made things worse in the fifth inning with nine runs to make the score 13-2.  Fadness paced the Titans with a three-run home run followed by a Hayden Krueger double that drove in a pair of runs.  Koepsel, Loew, and Mallek each produced an RBI hit for the Titans in the sixth inning. 
 
The Yellowjackets added their final run of the game in the bottom of the fifth inning when Linzmeier reached on a fielder's choice and came around to score on McNeil's double to make the score 13-3. 
 
Gross pitched a complete game for the Yellowjackets.  She gave up 13 runs on 14 hits in the process.
 
The Yellowjackets close the 2014 season with a 20-17 (3-13 WIAC) record. 
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