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HU softball team dominates Bethel in DH sweep

Amber Klopfenstein, a freshman on the Huntington University softball team, sends the ball flying in a game against visiting Bethel College on Friday, April 28. The Foresters swept the Pilots, 8-1, 11-1.
Amber Klopfenstein, a freshman on the Huntington University softball team, sends the ball flying in a game against visiting Bethel College on Friday, April 28. The Foresters swept the Pilots, 8-1, 11-1. Photo by Steve Clark.

The Huntington University softball team extended its win streak to seven games with a sweep of visiting Bethel College on Friday, April 28.

The Foresters dominated the Pilots, winning 11-1 and 8-1 to improve to 27-16-1, 22-12 in Crossroads League play.

Huntington got lights-out pitching from its pair of freshmen hurlers, Lairen Miller and Camille Furrow. The first game, which ended after five innings due to the run rule, saw Miller yield just three hits and an unearned run. She registered five strikeouts and issued no walks to improve to 16-8. In the second contest, Furrow limited Bethel to three hits and an earned run in seven frames. The rookie, picking up her 12th win against eight defeats, fanned three while walking one.

Miller helped her own cause in the opener with two hits, a run batted in and two runs scored. Freshman Joelle Beals chipped in a hit, an RBI and two runs scored for the Foresters, who finished with eight hits in all.

Huntington scored once in the first, three times in the second, once more in the third and countered a fourth-inning solo tally by Bethel with five runs in its half of the frame to cap the tilt’s offense.

Just as Miller did in the previous game, Furrow supported her own effort in the circle with a nice game at the plate. The freshman banged out three hits and as many RBI. Freshman Karley Blankenship logged two hits and as many RBI while sophomore Marty Harris produced a pair of hits, an RBI and two runs scored. Sophomore Sabrina Bethel, junior Audra Klopfenstein and senior Natalie McGuire, playing in her final regular-season home games, rounded out the team’s offensive effort with an RBI each.

Huntington, which finished with 12 hits for the game, took a 4-0 lead in the first inning, then countered a Bethel solo tally in the third with a trio of runs before rounding out the game’s scoring with an insurance run in the sixth.

The Pilots finish the season 2-45, 2-34 in league play.