Emily Chandler got her 200th career hit to highlight a doubleheader split for the Wayne State softball team on Saturday, winning a 9-1 nightcap after the Wolves took the opener 13-5 in Aberdeen, S.D.
Wayne State got off to a fast start in the opener, scoring four runs in the first inning. Chandler started the scoring with an RBI single that brought home Morgan Vasa. Abbie Hix followed with a sacrifice fly, scoring Kim Vidlak, and Ashley Hernandez hit a two-run homer to give the Wildcats the early 4-0 lead.
Northern came back with six runs in the third, one in the fourth and four in the fifth to take an 11-4 lead.
Chandler hit her milestone hit in the fifth with an infield single, becoming just the seventh player in Wayne State history to hit the 200-hit milestone. Wayne State would add their final run int he sixth before Northern came back to close out the first-game win.
Hernandez and Chandler each had two hits to lead a six-hit attack. Menard and Kamryn Sparks both added hits. Makenna Adkison took the pitching loss.
In the nightcap, the Wildcats broke out a seven-run fifth inning to take control of the game.
Trailing 1-0 in the fifth, the Wildcats came through with a big inning, started by Sparks’ two-run homer. Chandler and Taylor Menard both added two-run hits in the inning, and Chandler added a two-run homer in the seventh to cap the Wayne State win.
Menard was 4-for-4 and Chandler was 3-for-4 with four RBI’s to lead a 12-hit attack. Sparks was 2-for-3. Riley Vanderveen recorded the complete-game win.
Wayne State (12-29, 3-21 NSIC) hosts No. 7-ranked Winona State on Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the Chapman Complex.
