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Bryanna Heckel goes three-for-three with two RBI in the first Wheaton game

Carthage Softball Sweeps Wheaton (Ill.), 6-0 and 5-2, on April 12

Lady Reds Travel to No. 25 Augustana (Ill.) on Sunday

4/12/2013 4:54:00 PM

By: By Steve Marovich, Sports Information Director
Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Carthage College softball team (17-5, 4-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) swept a Friday, April 12 doubleheader from CCIW-opponent Wheaton College (Ill., 12-9, 1-3 CCIW), 6-0 and 5-2, at the Carthage Softball Field in Kenosha, Wis.
 
Carthage took a 1-0 lead in the first inning of the opener on an RBI-single by Katie Morman.  The Lady Reds scored again in the second on an RBI-single by Heckel.  Heckel singled in another run in the fourth to pout Carthage up,  Heckel singled in another run in the fourth to put Carthage up, 3-0.  Abby Hanson lifted a two-run home run to left in the fifth, and the Lady Reds led, 5-0.  Corinne Sheley scored on a stolen base and two throwing errors in the sixth for the final run. 

Krystina Leazer (Sr., Des Plaines, Ill./Elk Grove) upped her record to 10-2 by limiting the Thunder to no runs on one hits and three walks over seven innings with five strikeouts.  Danielle Schmidt (7-4) took the loss.  Carthage's Bryanna Heckel (Jr., Kenosha, Wis./Salem-Westosha Central) went three-for-three with two RBI, and Abby Hanson (Jr., Winthrop Harbor, Ill./Zion-Benton Township) had two hits in three trips, also with two RBI.
 
In the second game, Carthage scored twice in the second inning on a pair of wild pitches from Thunder hurler Katie Thornton.  Bryanna Heckel singled in a run in the fourth, and Carthage led, 3-0.  An RBI-grounder off the bat of Olivia Scott and an RBI-single by Alyse Mikolas in the fifth inning made it 5-0.  The Thunder scored twice in the bottom the fifth to close out the scoring at 5-2.  Krystina Leazer entered the game in relief of Tina Campbell in the fifth, and the second run of the inning was charged to Leazer.
 
Tina Campbell (Jr., St. Petersburg, Ill./Lakewood, 7-3) was the winning pitcher, with Katie Thornton (4-4) taking the loss.  Vicki Pyan (Jr., Crystal Lake, Ill./South) had two hits in four trips to the plate for Carthage.  The Lady Reds travel to Rock Island, Ill., on Sunday, April 14 to take on conference-opponent and No. 25 Augustana College (Ill., 19-7, 4-2 CCIW) in a 1 p.m. doubleheader at Carver Field.
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