Bulldogs Ride Sophomore Pitcher to 3-0 Start

Last year, GMLOK softball won four games.  Through three games this year, behind sophomore pitcher Lily Hughes’ 42 strikeouts, the Bulldogs (now in the SEC) are 3-0.  On back-to-back nights, John Fenske’s girls downed Southland and then Alden-Conger/Glenville-Emmons.  The Rebels fell 12-5.  Hughes went the distance (7 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 13 Ks, Win).  Sophomore Zoe Scrabeck had GMLOK’s biggest hit (2-3, HR, 2 RBI, 2 R).  Liz Jacobsen (2-4, 2B, RBI, R) also had two hits.   Masie Voigt (1-3, 2 RBI, 2 R) and Sydney Eickhoff (1-4, 2 RBI, R) each drove in two.  All nine Bulldog starting hitters scored, and seven had an RBI.   A-C/G-E then fell 3-0, as Hughes authored her best career varsity effort (7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 15 K, Win).  GMLOK had just seven hits.  Hughes (2-4) and Lydia Voeltz (2-3, R) each had two.  Eickhoff (1-3, 2 RBI, R) drove in two runs.   The senior lead-off Voigt (1-1, 2B) had four quality at bats (2 BB, Sac).  The Knight-Wolverines had previously beaten what should be a quality Mabel-Canton squad 6-4.  The wins moved GMLOK’s records to 3-0, 3-0 (in their first SEC season).