Sports

Ladyjacks gaining late momentum

By Matthew Semisch

04/21/2015

Heading into the final week of the regular season, Dakota College at Bottineau’s (DCB) softball team has found itself on a bit of a roll.

The Ladyjacks currently sit at 7-17, but six of those wins came in the past week. DCB is in a busy stretch that will see them play 14 games in eight days, but the Ladyjacks are holding up well.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, DCB split a pair of doubleheaders in a home-and-home set against Lake Region State. In Tuesday’s twin bill, high winds boosted the scores: 30-25 to DCB in Game 1 - including an 11-run third inning for DCB - and 12-11 to the Lady Royals in the rematch.

The following day, DCB traveled to Devils Lake to face LRSC twice more and again split. The Lady Royals took Game 1 by an 11-8 count before four sixth-inning runs saw the Ladyjacks finish the two-days series with an 8-4 victory.

DCB followed that up on Thursday by sweeping a two-game set against Northland in Thief River Falls, Minn. Ladyjacks pitcher Taylor Glass struck out four Northland batters in a 4-0 shutout before another four-run sixth inning in Game 2 helped DCB run away with an 8-7 victory in the rematch.

Sixth-inning heroics were required again on Saturday for DCB in the first game of a four-outing weekend set against Bismarck State. The Ladyjacks used six runs in the penultimate inning of Game 1 at Bottineau’s Tommy Turtle Park to rocket to an 11-10 victory before the Mystics won the rematch 7-2.

The teams then played two more games on Sunday in Bismarck. That, too, ended in a split with DCB winning Game 1 5-2 before dropping the rematch by a 5-3 count.

The Ladyjacks will wrap up their regular season on Tuesday and Wednesday with home twin bills against North Dakota State College of Science.