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Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
(Apr. 27, 2013) – With her 49th career victory in the opening game Saturday and by tossing 11 1/3 innings pitched in the doubleheader, junior Vlasta Mangia set all-time records for career victories and innings pitched in a split with Augustana College at Shanower Family Field.
Mangia (21-3) broke Chris Johnson's record for career victories that had stood since the 1999 season. For the career innings pitched mark, Mangia has now thrown 491 2/3 innings snapping Jessica Siegel's record of 483 1/3 that she set in 2005.
The Cardinals claimed a 6-2 victory in game one, but the Vikings took the nightcap 5-1. In the game one victory, North Central jumped all over the Vikings with two runs in its first at-bat.
Leading off for the first time this season, Kayla Antle reached with a bunt single, and when Cecie Portillo attempted to bunt her over, Augustana threw the ball away and the Cardinals had runners at the corners. Kiersten Tinkoff laced a single to left to put the North Central on the board. Mangia bunted Tinkoff and Portillo to second and third and Portillo came around on a passed ball.
Augustana answered with runs in the third and the fifth to tie the score, but North Central blew the game open in the fifth. Amanda Walker knocked in Portillo with a single up the middle and Carly Trenhaile came up with a clutch two-out hit to score Walker and pinch runner Tara Sears.
The Cardinals added an insurance in the sixth on a single by Antle.
North Central scored a run in the opening inning again in game two, but that was all they could manage off Ashley Anderson (8-4) and Christie Wiersma.
Starter Andrea Starr (10-2) lasted just 1 2/3 innings, before she was relieved by Mangia. Augustana used a big second inning to chase Starr. Cheyenne Burnett recorded an RBI groundout before Laura Behnke blasted a two-run homer to right field.
The Cardinals had a hit in every inning of the second game, but were unable to come up with the clutch hit they needed and stranded 10 runners, including the bases loaded in the fifth.
Tinkoff had three hits in the nightcap, and four hits on the day to lead the Cardinal lineup.
North Central takes Sunday off before hosting North Park University on Monday at Shanower Family Field at 3:00 p.m.
