Sioux Center, Iowa — The Dordt Softball team dropped both conference games Monday afternoon in Sioux Center.
The Mount Marty Lancers shut out the Dordt Defenders in game one of their doubleheader on Monday night in Sioux Center. The games were originally scheduled to be played on Tuesday but were moved due to an unfavorable forecast.
The Lancers scored two in the first with two outs, benefitting from a wind blown single in the process and the visitors scored the two runs on three hits.
The Lancers added a run in the second and another in the sixth for their four runs.
Dordt’s best chance came in the fifth inning when Hannah Sikkema singled to lead off the inning and advanced on a sacrifice bunt. Becky Pedersen worked for a walk but the next two batters were retired by strikeout to end the threat.
Sikkema’s single was the only hit of the game for the Defenders.
Abby Kraemer pitched and took the loss and was charged with four runs on seven hits and walked five with three strikeouts.
Dordt was issued three walks and Becky Pedersen had two of them.
Mount Marty’s Maureena Vornhagen got the pitching win and struck out 12 with one hit surrendered and she walked three.
Mount Marty got a sweep from the Dordt Defenders in GPAC softball play Monday night in Sioux Center.
The Lancers secured a 5-2 win in game two after surrendering the lead and scored three in the top of the seventh to get the win.
The Lancers scored one in the first and another in the fourth for a 2-0 lead. Both runs were unearned.
In the fifth inning Dordt got their first run of the day with Ivy Terpstra scoring on a Rachel Evavold ground out. The Defenders then knotted the score with a run in the sixth inning as Emma Veenstra knocked a sacrifice fly that scored Hannah Sikkema.
The Lancers came back with three runs on three hits in the seventh inning and then worked around a Jessica Oules single in the seventh inning to secure the 5-2 win.
Rachel Evavold took the loss and walked three with six strikeouts and surrendered 10 hits.
Oules was 3-4 at the plate and Evavold and Sikkema accounted for Dordt’s two other hits. Erin Bredemus had a pair of walks as did Ivy Terpstra in the loss.
Dordt is now 3-3 in league play and 14-14 overall while Mount Marty is 12-9 and 5-3 in the GPAC.
Dordt is scheduled to next face Northwestern on Wednesday night, March 31.
