Sower sports roundup, April 6
By Maddy Peters
Sports Editor
If you missed Concordia University Nebraska sports this weekend, here is what happened.
The Concordia softball team dropped both games in their double header against the No. 7 Northwestern College Red Raiders on April 4 going 9-0 in game one and 6-2 in game two. The team is now 20-12 overall and 5-5 in the Great Plains Athletic Conference. Their next games are a double header against Morningside University on April 8.
The Bulldogs struggled to put up an offense against the Red Raiders in Sioux Center. Junior Taryn Ganstrom led the offense with three hits on the day and senior Aubrey Bruning notched the one RBI of the double header.
Bruning’s RBI came in the second inning of that second game and proved to be a tricky hit for Northwestern to handle as an error from their second baseman allowed sophomore Laycee Josoff to run home to score the second run for the Bulldogs and briefly put them in the lead.
Senior Megan Eurich pitched the whole first game going 10 hits for nine runs and three strikeouts. Sophomore Kaylei Denison took the second game going six hits for six runs and no strikeouts.
The Concordia tennis teams also faced Northwestern over the weekend with games on April 5. The men narrowly won 4-3 and the women took their matchup 6-1. This puts the men at 10-6 overall and 2-1 in the GPAC and the women at 12-2 overall and 3-1 in the GPAC. Both teams next face Hastings College at home on April 9.
The men started off promising with a swept doubles point going 6-2 in the No. 1, 6-2 in the No. 2 and 6-0 in the No. 3 matches. The issues arose in the singles matches where the evens won and the odds lost. No. 2 junior Nick Velders, No. 4 senior Grady Works and No. 6 junior Santiago Abadia scored the last three points to take the win for Concordia. Velders won 6-2, 6-3, Works won a highly contested match 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 and Abadia won straight 6-0, 6-0 sets.
The women, meanwhile, had a much easier time against the Red Raiders. The women took the doubles point despite dropping the No. 2 match and the only singles loss came in the No. 6 match between Northwestern’s Alloree Else and freshman Nina Milic who fought a 2-6, 7-5, 10-5 match. The rest of the women won in straight sets.
