Enlow, Anna
Christy Warlow
6
Carthage CARTHAGE 20-21
21
Winner Millikin MILLIKIN 22-15
Carthage CARTHAGE
20-21
6
Final
21
Millikin MILLIKIN
22-15
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Carthage CARTHAGE 1 3 0 0 2 6 5 0
Millikin MILLIKIN 7 7 3 4 X 21 15 1

W: Warlow, Charly (14-7) L: Conway, Madd (9-9)

Game Recap: Softball | | Morgan Vogels

Softball Downs Carthage, Heads to Double Elimination Round against Illinois Wesleyan

The Big Blue softball team traveled to Illinois Wesleyan for the 2024 College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin Tournament on Thursday, May 9. Millikin took down Carthage in the opening elimination round 21-4.

After Carthage got on the board first, the Big Blue put up seven-spots in both the first and second innings to take a 14-4 lead after two.

In the first, Maddy Regan laid down a squeeze bunt to score Rylee Blake, then a bases loaded walk issued to Ava Zukowski plated Foreman. With the bases loaded, Lanie Chizmark delivered an RBI single up the middle, then Kendallyn Davison was hit by a pitch to score Katlyn Schraeder. Anna Enlow's single up the middle scored Chizmark and Zukowski, then the final run was scored on some trickery on the basepaths by Blake.

After Carthage tacked on three of their own in the top of the second, the Big Blue scored when Foreman went home on a passed ball. Chizmark approached the plate once again with the bases loaded, and in a deja vu moment sent one right back up the middle to score Schraeder and Regan. An Enlow double scored Chizmark and Zukowski, then a Blake triple down the right field line plated Enlow standing up. The final run scored on an infield single by Emma Lewandowski to give MU the 14-4 advantage.

In the third, and Enlow triple cleared the bases to put MU up 17-4. In the bottom of the fourth, the Big Blue kept the foot on the gas with a Chizmark double to left that scored Charley Condill. Then, Enlow broke the Millikin school record for RBIs in a game with two more to make nine, plating Ann Marie Meek and Chizmark with a double to left field. The Big Blue scored their 21st run on a single up the middle by Abby Willis.

Carthage plated two of their own in the top of the fifth, but it wasn't enough to overcome the deficit and Millikin secured the 21-6 victory in the CCIW Elimination Round.

Blake went 2-for-2 at the plate while Chizmark and Enlow were each 4-for-4. Charly Warlow recorded the win in the circle, tossing 4.0 innings and allowing just five hits and striking out two.

With first pitch scheduled to happen around 5:00 PM, the Big Blue will take on the top seeded host Titans of Illinois Wesleyan to begin the double elimination round.
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