By Marissa VanWingen, The Times-Citizen

Iowa Falls, IA – On the road at Northeast Community College, Ellsworth Community College in a back and forth one-run contest in the first and then shut out in game two. 

Scheduled to play on Saturday, the contests were moved up to Friday due to pending weather as the Hawks recorded a 10-9 and 9-0 sweep.

The two were in a battle for the first game. ECC (9-11, 0-2) scored the first five runs of the game in the opening frame before the hosts came back and cut the deficit to 5-3. A big second frame lifted Northeast to a 9-6 advantage. The visitors were able to knot the score one more time at 9-9 but a seventh inning run by the Hawks (14-15, 2-2) gave them the win.

The Panthers had just five hits in the game with Ella Garstang going 3-5 with a stolen base and an RBI. Taryn Petty and Julissia Arias were the other two with knocks. Otherwise, the Northeast pitching staff walked 12 batters to give ECC opportunities to score runs. 

Hailey Sheaffer took the loss in the circle, going 5.2 innings and allowing five hits, one run, walking two and fanning four. Angelica Agro started the game but gave up eight hits, nine runs (six earned) walked three and struck out two in 1.1 innings.

The bats fell quiet in game two as the Panthers had just one hit, a single by Garstang. They reached on one base on balls   Alli Paulsen. 

ECC had to use three different pitchers in the contest. Arias took the loss going one inning and giving up three hits, five runs, five earned runs, walked three and the Hawks had a round tripper in the frame. Kaitlyn Mick threw two innings and allowed five hits, four runs, three earned and walked one. Peytin Clemensen saw the final four batters.

Depending on the weather, the Panthers are scheduled to go to seventh-ranked DMACC on Monday.

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