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HU softball team wins 2 of 3 on final day in Arizona

On their fourth day of games in Tucson, AZ, the Huntington University softball team went 2-1, with a 6-0 loss to NAIA fifth-ranked Dickinson State to begin the day followed by a 12-4 win over Cardinal Stritch and a 10-4 victory over Mayville State.

In the first game, HU managed just four hits against Dickinson State and committed two errors that led to three unearned Blue Hawk runs.

Dickinson scored once in the second and fourth and then took control of the game with three runs in the fifth.

Lauren Ward went the distance for HU in the loss, allowing six runs on seven hits and two walks while striking out six.

In their second game of the day, the Foresters used a seven-run fourth inning to earn the come-from-behind victory over Cardinal Stritch.

Stritch had a big first inning, scoring four runs, but it was to be all they would get.

HU got one back in its half of the first and pulled within one with a pair of runs in the third. The Foresters then broke the game open with their fourth inning onslaught.

HU took advantage of six singles, three walks and two passed balls to score the seven runs, and then held Cardinal Stritch scoreless the final two and a half innings.

Molly Long picked up the win for the Foresters in relief of Ashley Scally. She threw three and a third scoreless innings and allowed just one hit while striking out five.

Jeanine Vaszari went 3-4 at the plate to lead HU, and Ashley McCann drove in a game-high three runs.

The Foresters' final game of the day was a rematch with Mayville State and they earned the sweep with the 12-4 win in five innings.

HU scored three in the first, but the Comets battled back to take a 4-3 lead with a pair of runs in the second and third. Brita Kuiper put the Foresters back on top for good with a two-run home run to left in the bottom of the third.

HU put together seven hits, including a leadoff homer by Ward, for five runs in the fourth and then ended the game early with two more runs in the fifth.

Long notched her second win of the day. She threw all five innings and allowed four runs on six hits while striking our four.

Vaszari and Kuiper both had three hits in the contest for HU, and Brittany Gower had two hits, including a triple, and a team-leading three RBI.

HU is 6-3.