Alverno College Athletics - Home of the Inferno

MILWAUKEE -- Too few hits and several costly errors contributed to a pair of losses by the Alverno College softball team to Aurora University, as the Inferno fell 12-2 in the first game and 9-1 in the second game of the Northern Athletics Conference doubleheader at Alverno Field.

Senior pitcher Jessica Goetz (Milwaukee, Wis./Greendale Martin Luther), who threw all 10 innings in both games, and Alverno's defense were able to hold off Aurora through the first two innings of the first game until they exploded for four runs on four hits in the third inning. The visiting Spartans continued to pile on the hits and elevate the score throughout the remaining two innings, claiming 15 hits from Goetz in the first game.

WAUKESHA, Wis. -- Alverno College split a nonconference doubleheader with host Carroll University today at Kilgour Field today, losing 1-0 on a walk-off homer in extra innings in game one before winning 6-3 in the second game of the twin bill.

The heartbreaking loss in game one was one that could have been avoided. "We had a critical running error in the sixth that took us out of the inning," Alverno head coach Kristin Kosobucki said.

With one out in the top of the sixth inning and runners on second and third, freshman second baseman Roxanne Kresmer (South Milwaukee, Wis.) hit fly ball to right field attempting the sacrifice fly, but senior pitcher Jessica Goetz (Milwaukee, Wis./Martin Luther) was also called out on the play for leaving the base early.

"We also left a good amount of runners on base," Kosobucki said, referring to the eight stranded in the game. "We just couldn't get them across the plate. Bases were loaded in the third with no outs, and we just couldn't get a hit there."

LISLE, Ill. -- Alverno College could only muster seven hits while the host Eagles of Benedictine University connected for 20 in a doubleheader sweep of the Inferno this afternoon at the Sports Complex in Lisle by scores of 8-0 and 9-2.

The first game remained scoreless until the Eagles (15-4, 4-0 NAC) exploded for eight runs in the bottom of the fourth inning on six hits and one costly error by the visiting Inferno.

Benedictine began the inning with just their second hit of the game at that time, a lead-off double to center field. The next batter reached on an infield error and that started the scoring which led to eight runs, only two of which were earned to senior pitcher Jessica Goetz (Milwaukee, Wis./Martin Luther).

MILWAUKEE -- The Alverno College softball team was all business at the plate in a pair of convincing Northern Athletics Conference victories over Maranatha Baptist Bible College, shutting out the Crusaders, 17-0, on 14 hits in the first game and picking up the 17-6 victory off 10 hits in game two at Alverno Field with both games concluding after five innings.

The Inferno (7-11, 2-2 NAC) cruised to a smooth shutout victory in the first game behind the arm of senior pitcher Jessica Goetz (Milwaukee, Wis./Greendale Martin Luther), who retired four batters and gave up just one hit on a close play at first base in three innings in the circle. However, the second game did not come quite so easily for the host squad.