Softball Sweeps Thomas More As Gregg Sauve Becomes All-Time Winningest Coach In Program History With No. 232

OVERVIEW – Thomas More

SCORES: Northwood 12, Thomas More 4 / Northwood 11, Thomas More 1

RECORDS: Northwood (20-14, 10-6 G-MAC), Thomas More (13-21, 1-13 G-MAC)

LOCATION: Thomas More Softball Field - Crestview Hills, Ky.

RECAP: Northwood softball earned a convincing series sweep at Thomas More on Sunday (April 13). With the 12-4 and 11-1 wins, Head Coach Gregg Sauve became Northwood's all-time winningest coach in program history with 232 wins.

GAME ONE HIGHLIGHTS

• Saylar Cuthrell's sac fly in the top of the second opened the scoring for Northwood, 1-0 NU. Abby Robinson came in to score on the play.
• A two-out, two-run single from Gabby Schloop put NU in front 3-0. Northwood tallied three runs on two hits and an error.
• Thomas More brought it within one with a two-run homer in the bottom of the second, 3-2 NU.
• Northwood added two more in the fourth. Cuthrell and Schloop came through yet again, going single, then an RBI groundout to put NU up 5-2. Gianna Fantin and Gage Lambert scored on the plays.
• Schloop tabbed her fourth and fifth RBIs of the game with a double to score Cuthrell and Chloe Cooper from second and third, 7-2 NU.
• Ashley Ziel doubled to bring home Schloop two batters later, 8-2 NU.
• NU added RBI doubles from Ashlyn Lundquist and Abby Robinson to put the game away in the seventh, 12-2 NU.
• Thomas More scored twice in the seventh to make it the final 12-4. With the win, Gregg Sauve tied the record for wins for a head coach at Northwood with 231. Suzanne Brown set the record during her tenure from 1993-2000. 

GAME ONE STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors: Northwood 12/11/0, Thomas More 4/7/2
• Runners left on base: Northwood 8, Thomas More 7
• Winning Pitcher – Brynn Polega (11-4) 4.1 IP, 6 H, 2 R (2 ER), 2 BB, 2 K
• Losing Pitcher – Olivia Dumm (0-4) 5 IP, 8 H, 7 R (4 ER), 3 BB

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Schloop: 2-3, 2B, 5 RBI, BB, 2 R
• Robinson: 2-4, 2 2B, 2 RBI, R, BB
• Cuthrell: 2-3, 2 RBI, R
• Cooper: 2-2, 2B, 3 R, BB
• Lundquist: 2B, 2 RBI, R
• Ziel: 2B, RBI

GAME TWO HIGHLIGHTS

• In game two, Northwood's offense started early, scoring twice in the first. Lundquist and Delanie Gale put NU's leadoff hitters on before a walk, then a sac fly from Fantin gave NU the 1-0 lead.
• Payton Schafsnitz walked in another run, scoring Gale from third. Northwood led 2-0 after one.
• Northwood blew the game open in the third, scoring six, beginning with Fantin's single to score Ziel from third, 3-0 NU.
• Gage Lambert followed Fantin with an RBI before a bases-loaded walk from Schloop two batters later brought her in, 5-0 NU.
• Ashlyn Lundquist's sac fly kept the third for NU going, scoring Schafsnitz. A walk to Gale brought Ziel up for the second time in the inning. Ziel capped the inning's scoring with a two-out, two-run single to bring home Schloop and Cuthrell, 8-0 NU.
• Thomas More added an RBI double in the third, scoring the Saints' only run of the game, 8-1 NU.
• NU put the run rule in effect with a double from Ziel in the fifth. Lundquist's lead-off walk came around to score on her RBI double, 9-1 NU.
• Northwood tacked on in the fifth. Carney Salo's bases-loaded walk brought in one before Delani Paulsell's first career RBI capped NU's scoring at 11.
• Brittani Mutter came in in the fifth to close out Northwood's 20^th win of the year. This is the fifth straight 20+ win season for the Timberwolves.
• The win marks the 232^nd win of Head Coach Gregg Sauve's tenure, becoming the all-time winningest coach in program history, surpassing Suzanne Brown (1993-2000).

GAME TWO STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors: Northwood 11/7/0, Thomas More 1/8/1
• Runners left on base: Northwood 8, Thomas More 8
• Winning Pitcher – Ashley Ziel (3-1), 4 IP, 6 H, 1 R (1 ER), 4 K
• Losing Pitcher – Avery Gottlieb (1-3) 2.2 IP, 5 H, 8 R (4 ER), 7 BB

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Ziel: 2-4, 2B, 3 RBI, 2 R
• Gale: 2-3, 2 R
• Schafsnitz: 1-2, RBI, 2 BB, R
• Fantin: 1-2, 2 RBI
• Robinson: 1-2, 2B, R
• Lundquist: RBI, 2 R, 2 BB

UP NEXT

• Northwood softball is back in Midland on Friday (April 18) to take on Ashland. Game times are set for 2 and 4 p.m. at Fisher Stadium.