Purdue University Northwest Sports Update, March 28, 2017

PNW-Bailey-Leads-Purdue-Northwest-on-Day-1-at-TPC-Deere-Run-InviteBailey Leads Purdue Northwest on Day 1 at TPC Deere Run Invite Freshman Lauren Bailey led the way for the Purdue University Northwest women’s golf team on Day 1 of the TPC Deere Run Invitational at the Midwest Collegiate Championships Monday.

Bailey (Wanatah, Ind./Lacrosse) shot an 86 (tied for 34th) to pace the Pride, who stood in 16th place with a team score of 397 after 18 holes at the event hosted by William Penn University.

Classmate Darian Smith (Muskegon, Mich./Mona Shores) shot a 97 (tied for 78th), Meaghan Spalla (Crown Point, Ind./Boone Grove) recorded a 103 (90th), and Jenna Gericke (Highland, Ind./Highland) posted a 111 (100th) to round out PNW’s team score.

Sophomore Allison Banasiak (Highland, Ind./Highland) added a score of 115 (tied for 102nd) to round out the Pride’s competitiors.

Cumberlands led the team field with a 307, led by current first-place individual Cassidy Scantland, who shot a field-low 70.

The two-day tournament kicks off again Tuesday at 9 a.m. CT.

TPC Deere Run Invitational at the MW Collegiate Championships

Day 1 Team scores – 1. Cumberlands 307; 2. Campbellsville 314; 3. Northwestern Ohio 318; 3. Lawrence Tech 318; 5. Bethel 322; 6. William Penn 324; 7. Briar Cliff 347; 8. William Penn B 352; 8. Morningside 352; 10. St. Francis (IL) 354; 11. Bethel 359; 12. Aurora 360; 13. Viterbo 364; 14. Aquinas 384; 15. Missouri Baptist 386; 16. Purdue Northwest 397; St. Ambrose 413.

PURDUE NORTHWEST (397) – t-34. Lauren Bailey 86; t-78. Darian Smith 97; 90. Meaghan Spalla 103; 100. Jenna Gericke 111; t-102. Allison Banasiak 115.

Monday's Contests Versus Grace Canceled Monday’s originally scheduled home contests between the Purdue University Northwest baseball team and Grace College have been canceled.

A makeup date has not been set at this time.

The Pride, who picked up two Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference victories over Robert Morris Illinois Friday, will return to league action Wednesday, March 29, with a doubleheader at Trinity International.

Game 1 is set for a 1 p.m. CT start.

For the latest updates on all PNW schedules, check out PNWathletics.com.

Earns Pair of Victories over Robert Morris Friday The Purdue University Northwest Pride earned a pair of wins against Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference opponent Robert Morris University in the Pride’s first CCAC games of the season.

The Pride (9-7, 2-0 CCAC) defeated the Eagles (11-14, 0-2 CCAC), 7-2 in Game 1 before picking up the 5-4 victory in the nightcap.

Jake Lindeman (Crown Point, Ind./Crown Point) led the Pride at the plate going 5-for-7 with three RBI and three runs scored while Tyler Kenjic (Hobart, Ind./Hobart) finished the day with four hits, two RBI and one run scored.

Game 1: PNW 7, Robert Morris 2

The Pride struck early in the first inning, after an infield single from Lindeman plated Larry Crisler (Gary, Ind./Bishop Noll) to make it 1-0.

PNW would tack on two more runs in the bottom of the third, thanks to back-to-back RBI-singles from Lindeman and Kenjic which gave the Pride a 3-0 lead.

Cody Moskovsky (St. John, Ind./Bishop Noll) would plate Lindeman in the bottom of the fifth, followed by a 2 RBI-double from Brock Crews (Manteno, Ill./Manteno) which gave the Black and Gold a 6-0 advantage.

RMU would score a pair of runs in the top of the sixth, but the Pride would add one more run in the bottom half of the inning, leading to the Pride’s 7-2 win.

Senior Matt Sandoval (Highland, Ind./Bishop Noll) picked up his third win on the mound for the Pride, pitching five scoreless innings with five strikeouts.

Brody Kutch (La Porte, Ind./ La Porte) came in relief to finish the game strong with two innings of work, allowing two runs and striking out two.

Game 2: PNW 5, Robert Morris 4

The Eagles would score all 4 of their runs in the top of the first inning, but the Pride would battle back, scoring a run in the bottom of the first on an RBI-single from Alex Batistatos (Hobart, Ind./Hobart) which cut the deficit to 4-1.

Batistatos continued to stay hot at the plate with a 2-RBI single in the bottom of the fifth inning, which made it 4-3.

Lindeman kept the inning a live with an RBI-single, followed by another RBI-single from Kenjic that gave the Pride a 5-4 lead.

After Jimmy Skiff (Dyer, Ind./Andrean) pitched five innings of work, Josh Arnold (Lowell, Ind./Lowell) threw two innings in relief striking out three batters keeping the score at 5-4.

Fabian Del Real (Calumet City, Ill./T.F. North) would throw a scoreless eighth inning, setting up Brett Shoults (Oxford, Ind./Benton Central) to earn his first save of the season in the ninth inning to finish off the Eagles and earn the Pride a 5-4 win.

Skiff earned his first win of the season striking out six batters in five innings of work and allowing four earned runs.

PNW will return to action Monday, Mar. 27, when they host Grace College in a doubleheader starting at 2 p.m. (CT).

PNW Splits with Aquinas; Payne Has Big Offensive Day Kyleigh Payne saved her sixth home run of the season for a clutch moment in Friday’s nightcap, when her two-run swing tied the game against visiting Aquinas (Mich.) College in a two-game split for the Purdue University Northwest softball team.

Payne (Bourbonnais, Ill./Bishop McNamara) belted a two-run shot over the center field fence in the bottom of the seventh inning of Game 2 to tie the game at 3-all and send it into the eighth, where both teams would score a run before the game was called a 4-4 tie due to darkness.

The Pride (10-11-1) dropped the first decision, 3-1, to the Saints (20-1-1) of Grand Rapids, Mich.

Purdue Northwest — who was forced to postpone its conference opener with St. Ambrose originally scheduled for Saturday due to inclement weather — will return to action Tuesday, March. 28, with a road Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference pair at Judson in Elgin, Ill.

GAME 1: AQUINAS 3, PNW 1 Senior Allyson Leach (Demotte, Ind./North Newton) led the way in the day’s opening game for PNW, going 2-for-3 with two doubles at the plate and score the Pride’s lone run, which came in the fifth.

Aquinas opened the contest with all three runs in the third inning, capitalizing on a PNW error and then adding two more unearned runs on a Anna Kenny double and Brooke Senkbeil single.

Leach would cross the plate in the fifth when PNW sophomore Olivia Sardella (Dyer, Ind./Lake Central) doubled through the left side after Leach doubled in her at-bat.

Sardella, Taylor Kotzo (Munster, Ind./Munster), and Haley Loden (Crown Point, Ind./Lake Central) added hits for PNW in the opener. Senior Caroline Brown (Minooka, Ill./Minooka Community) pitched a gem despite the loss, as the right-hander didn’t give up an earned run and scattered seven hits, striking out five.

GAME 2: PNW 4, AQUINAS 4 (8 innings) Aquinas opened the game with a 3-0 lead heading into the fifth, but the Pride responded with a run in the bottom of the frame on a Kyleigh Payne RBI single to center field that scored Hannah Lopez (Granada Hills, Calif./Bishop Alemany).

Trailing 3-1 in the bottom of the seventh, it was Payne to the rescue again with a two-out, two-run home run to dead center that tied the game and sent the game into extra innings. Sophomore Lauren Maynard (Griffith, Ind./Griffith) gave the Pride the chance to tie it with her inning-opening single and pinch runner Samantha Oppenhuis (Munster, Ind./Illiana Christian) scored the run on Payne’s big hit.

With the international tie-breaker in effect and a runner on second, Aquinas answered with Emma Adams’ RBI-single up the middle to take a 4-3 lead, but PNW would tie it again in the bottom of the eighth on a Saints’ error that would score Holly Pagan (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett).

The game was called a 4-4 tie at the conclusion of the eighth due to darkness.

Payne finished the game 3-for-4 at the plate with three RBI, a home run and a double. Teammates Pagan, Tessa Steffens (Litchfield, Ill./Litchfield), Caroline Brown (Minooka, Ill./Minooka Community), Hannah Lopez and Maynard added hits for the Pride.

Audrey Headley (Lafayette, Ind./McCutcheon) went the distance in the circle, scattering nine hits, allowing three earned runs and striking out one.