Senior Madi Huot saw the ball almost perfectly on Friday in Rosemont, Ill. for Lindenwood softball. The senior had two doubles and three runs batted in the come-from-behind 6-3 victory against Findlay in the first game before recording another couple hits in the 5-1 win over Walsh. Freshman pitchers Kimberly Fozzard and Stormee Galka controlled the opposition, only allowing two earned runs combined and striking out 14 between the two. 

Lindenwood 6, Findlay 3

Fozzard went the distance in the first-game victory for the Lady Lions, striking out six and only allowing four hits. 

Huot began the scoring for Lindenwood, doubling to left-center field to drive in Morgan Brown. Findlay answered back in the second and third innings with extra-base hits to take the lead, 3-1. 

The Lady Lions continued to put runners in scoring position, leaving five runners on base before scoring again in the sixth inning. Faith Koffron recorded her second hit to begin the inning before freshman Austine Pauley singled up the middle. Three-straight singles by Brown, Becca Stocker, and Huot gave Lindenwood the 4-3 lead before Fozzard hit a hard liner to third base to end the inning. 

Lindenwood added onto its lead in the top of the seventh when Koffron singled and advanced to second when Pauley bunted her over into scoring position. Hannah Johnson singled to score the sophomore, and then came around to touch home plate herself when Stocker had a knock down the left-field line. 

Fozzard retired the final 10 Findlay batters after surrendering three runs (two unearned). Overall, Lindenwood left nine on base, but recorded 13 hits as a team compared to Findlay's four. The freshman went the distance and improved to 2-2 on the season from inside the circle. 

Lindenwood 5, Walsh 1

The Lady Lions scored first again in game two, but a four-run sixth inning sealed the victory, earning Galka her first collegiate win in a complete-game, eight-strikeout effort. 

Fozzard led off the home half of the first inning with a triple, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Maria Tippit. Huot followed up with a double to deep right-center field, but the Lady Lions failed to add onto the early lead after Pauley and Brown loaded the bases with a walk each. 

Walsh threatened through the first four innings, but Galka was able to hold the Cavaliers to zero runs. Finally for the visitors, a leadoff triple came around to score on a single, but the freshman southpaw forced a pair of fly outs to limit the damage. 

Lindenwood would not bow down. Huot led off the bottom of the sixth inning with a single and moved to second when Koffron recorded her fourth hit of the day. Johnson came through with a two-strike knock down the left-field line to give the Lady Lions the lead, and an infield single by Galka drove in two when the Walsh shortstop threw the ball away. Lindenwood tallied an insurance run right after as Fozzard doubled to left-center field, but was nabbed at third trying to stretch another triple. 

The insurance runs proved uneeded as Galka retired the final eight hitters, three of them being strikeouts. Fozzard, Huot, and Galka each had a pair of hits in the victory, including two runs batted in for Galka. 

The sweep improves Lindenwood to 3-3 on the season, and will continue play in Rosemont tomorrow with a doubleheader against Ashland and Winona State. First pitch is scheduled for 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., respectively.