Wayne State 5 Slippery Rock 2

            Senior second baseman Jordan King went 4 for 4 at the plate with three RBI's while senior Sara Scheffert made her first start of the season and worked four innings to earn the win as Wayne State topped Slippery Rock of Pennsylvania 5-2 Wednesday afternoon at the National Training Center Spring Games in Clermont, Florida.  The Wildcats improve to 9-2 on the season while Slippery Rock drops to 2-5.
            WSC opened the scoring in the first when King doubled and scored when Sam O'Brien reached on an error. 
            The Wildcats took a 4-0 lead in the second as King produced a two-run single that scored Megan Hagemann (single) and Alyssa Schropp (error) while Lexie Loos singled and later scored on a wild pitch.
            Slippery Rock scored in the top of the fourth to make the score 4-1, but WSC got the run back in the bottom of the fourth when Schropp singled and King came through with another run-scoring single that scored pinch-runner Jalyn Zeiss to put WSC in front 5-1.
            Slippery Rock closed out the scoring with one run in the seventh to make the final score 5-2.
            WSC had seven hits in the game to five by Slippery Rock.  King was 4 for 4senior second baseman Jordan King go 4 for 4 at the plate with three RBI's while senior Sara Scheffert made her first start of the season and worked four innings to earn the win as Wayne State topped Slippery Rock of Pennsylvania 5-2.
            WSC opened the scoring in the first when King doubled and scored when Sam O'Brien reached on an error. 
            The Wildcats took a 4-0 lead in the second as King produced a two-run single that scored Megan Hagemann (single) and Alyssa Schropp (error) while Lexie Loos singled and later scored on a wild pitch.
            Slippery Rock scored in the top of the fourth to make the score 4-1, but WSC got the run back in the bottom of the fourth when Schropp singled and King came through with another run-scoring single that scored pinch-runner Jalyn Zeiss to put WSC in front 5-1.
            Slippery Rock closed out the scoring with one run in the seventh to make the final score 5-2.
            WSC had seven hits in the game to five by Slippery Rock.  King was 4 for 4 with a double and three singles to lead Wayne State at the plate while Loos, Hagemann and Schropp each added singles with Loos extending her hit streak to start the season to 11 games in a row.
            Wayne State will conclude play on Thursday at the National Training Center Spring Games in Florida with games against Shippensburg (Pa.) at 9 am and Mercy College of New York at 11 am.