Softball Splits With Wheaton College  (3/18/06)
On a crisp Saturday afternoon the Trolls hosted Wheaton College (IL) in a non-conference double-header. The team got off to a rocky start and dropped the first game 6-1, but came back in the second game and took a 7-3 victory. They are now 3-7 for the season. 

In the first game Wheaton hit two solo homers in the first inning to take a lead that they did not give up. With two hits in each the second and third inning the Thunder was able to make it 4-0 after three innings. That score held until the fifth inning when Allison Vanderwerff doubled to get on base and was brought home by a Laura Arendsen single. However that was all the Trolls could muster and Wheaton connected on two more doubles to score two more runs in the final inning. 

It was the Trolls who got on top in the second game as they connected on four hits for three runs in the first inning. Wheaton closed the gap to 3-2 after the third inning. Trinity picked up one run in the fourth and one run in the fifth on a home run by Stephanie Koedyker to make it 6-2. The Thunder gained one back in the sixth inning, but a two-run homer by Arendsen, who ended the game with three hits, made the final 7-3. 

Overall the Trolls had 19 hits for the day, 13 in the second game. Allison Vanderwerff and Laura Arendsen each collected four while Stacey Wagner and Stephanie Koedyker each had 3. Freshman Nicole Heyboer got the win on the mound in the second game. 

The team will host Purdue-North Central (IN) on March 20 at 3:00 pm.
 
 

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