Bearcats split with Jennies
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Northwest junior left fielder Kendle Schieber hits a pitch off the left-center field wall during the first game of Friday’s double-header against Central Missouri. The Jennies won the first game, 4-1, and the Bearcats bounced back to win game two, 2-1, as Schieber compiled a complete-game, two-hitter.
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Northwest’s Kendle Schieber threw another gem to lead the Bearcats to a split with MIAA-rival Central Missouri, which currently leads the conference at 15-5, Friday afternoon at Bearcat Field.
The junior hurler threw a complete-game, two-hitter in the nightcap, allowing the Bearcats to hold steady in the No. 7 spot in the MIAA standings.
The Bearcats went up early, when senior first baseman Stephanie Mark scored on an error in the second inning. Schieber helped her own cause in the sixth inning, singling up the middle to score freshman shortstop Rebecca Maher.
The Jennies got their lone run in the top of the seventh when pitcher Jakki Prater homered to center field. The only other hit Schieber surrendered was a sixth-inning single to second baseman Katie Glacone.
Schieber struck out 11 and walked none, picking up her eighth win of the season.
The two-hitter came on the heels of a 4-1 loss to the Jennies in the series opener.
Central Missouri scored three runs in the second inning off junior starter Sarah Baldwin.
Right fielder Madison Hood doubled in a pair of runs and shortstop Ali Jo Rogers drove in the third run on a single. Prater, who played second base in the opener, scored on a passed ball in the fifth to give Central (33-13) more than enough insurance.
Northwest (21-21, 13-9 MIAA) picked up its lone run in the bottom of the seventh on an RBI single by Maher, who was 2-for-4 in the contest.
Baldwin threw a complete game, giving up six hits and walking five, while also striking out four Jennies.
The Bearcats close out the regular season with a pair of MIAA double-headers next weekend against No. 17 Emporia State and Washburn. The two-game series with Emporia State begins at 2 p.m. Friday, April 24 and the regular-season finale begins with a 1 p.m. first pitch Saturday, April 25.
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Northwest sophomore third baseman Chantel Adams throws out a Central Missouri baserunner at first base during the first game of the Bearcats’ split with the Jennies Friday afternoon.
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Northwest junior pitcher Sarah Baldwin pitches during the first game of Friday’s double-header split against Central Missouri. Baldwin took the loss, throwing a complete game while giving up six hits and four runs.
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Northwest senior first baseman Stephanie Mark goes down in the strike zone to send a pitch out to left field during the Bearcats’ 4-1 loss to Central Missouri in the first leg of Friday’s double-header. Mark was a combined 2-for-6 in the split.
