Stingy Pitching Leads to IHCC Sweep

Ottumwa -- Indian Hills pitchers Kylee Coughlin and Hannah Washburn combined to allow only four hits and one run as the Warriors cruised to a pair of wins against visiting North Cental Missouri at Hellyer Field on Thursday.

Coughlin allowed only two hits and one run in a 7-1 game-one win; Washburn fired a two-hit shutout in the second game as the Warriors completed the sweep with a 9-0 blanking.

North Central scored their only run of the day to take a 1-0 lead in the 3rd inning of the opener. The Warriors quickly answered with four runs in the bottom of the inning. Morgan Powers drove in the tying run with a groundout. Nicole Steinle then followed a Tory Beaver infield single with a two-run homer to left field. Cortney Wood added an RBI double in the inning.

Powers had a run-scoring single in the 4th and a sacrifice fly in the 7th for a three-RBI game.

Coughlin struck out seven and walked three in gaining her 6th win against 5 losses.

Washburn upped her record to 7-2 in the second game, fanning seven.

For the second straight game, IHCC took control with a four-run 3rd. Powers had another RBI with a double and Jenna Wolfe added an RBI single. Lindsay Evans doubled the lead with a two-run double.

A five-run 5th ended the game early. Jordan Grell started the uprising with an RBI single. Sydney Hallbauer and Kylee Homewood each singled in a run and Sarah Wilcox finished off the Lady Pirates with another RBI hit.

Grell, Wood, Homewood and Wolfe all had four hits apiece in the twinbill.

Indian Hills is now 18-10 and goes to Overland Park, Kansas this weekend for four games in a tournament hosted by Johnson County (KS).