April 18, 2023 at 2:51 p.m.
Huskies score 10 runs in first games of season
Break a tie with Alexandria to earn the win
The Albany girls softball team used a four-run seventh inning to break a tie and then shut down the Cardinals in their half of the inning to win 10-6 at Alexandria High School in Alexandria.
The Huskies took a 3-0 lead in the top of the first, but Alexandria came back in the third to go ahead 5-3 in the April 14 non-conference game.
Two runs in the fourth by Albany tied the game at 5-5, but a run in the fifth gave the Cardinals a 6-5 lead.
Albany knotted the game again in the sixth with a run, setting up its seventh inning rally.
Allie Thelen had the hot bat for the Huskies, going 3-for-4 with two doubles. She drove in three runs.
Alyssa Sand’s two hits included a home run.
Also getting two hits were Callie Holthaus, Lauren Nett and Sophia Schiffler. One of Schiffler’s hits was a double.
Shelby Horning and Carmen Eiynck had a hit each.
Emily McLachlan pitched the win for the Huskies, going the final four innings. She gave up one run and four hits.
Horning started for Albany and went three innings.
Albany 10, Holdingford 0
Horning pitched a two-hit shutout in a 10-0 six inning win over non-conference Holdingford April 12 at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph.
Horning struck out nine and walked just one behind a 10-run effort that included a three-run home run by Sand in the third inning.
Sand had a perfect day at the plate going 4-for-4 and driving in six runs.
Lead-off batter Savanna Pelzer scored Albany’s first run in the first inning. Albany tacked on four more in the second with Nett, McLachlan, Sand and Sara Eiynck (running for catcher Audrey Rieland) crossing the plate.
Sand’s home run drove in Nett and Pelzer in the third inning.
The Huskies scored a run in the fifth with Alexis Funk running for pitcher Horning as well as one in the sixth by McLachlan.
Holdingford had two hits, a single and triple, from Lauren Soltis.
For the Huskies, Nett and Thelen had two hits each, and Pelzer, Horning, Schiffler and Rieland had one each.
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