Elk Mound softball gets huge win over Mondovi

by Samuel Ripp

ELK MOUND – The Elk Mound softball team was in action on Monday, April 18 to take on Mondovi and defeated them by a score of 20-1.

The Lady Mounders are now 5-2 in the early part of the season, with their only losses being decided by one run both times. Their bats came alive against Mondovi, but pitching also shut them down and limited them to only one run.

Senior pitcher Abbey Olsen was on the mound on Monday leading her team to a blowout win. Olsen pitched a complete five inning game only allowing two hits and one run. She issued one walk and struck out eight over the course of the game. With the win, Olsen is now 3-0 on the young year while appearing in seven games.

Elk Mound started off the scoring right away and it came in bunches. They began the bottom half of the opening frame with ten runs and added to that in the second by pushing across three more. If they didn’t have enough insurance runs before, they did after scoring seven more in the bottom of the third inning to push it to 20-0. Mondovi would finally break through in the top of the fifth as they scored their only run.

On the afternoon, the Lady Mounders collected fourteen hits, drew nine walks, and only struck out three times.

The offense was led by junior Karie Jo Nigon as she went 3-4 at the plate including a walk and drove home five.

Collecting hits for the Lady Mounders included: junior Elizabeth Bauer; senior Hannah Brunner; Karie Jo Nigon with three; junior Lauren Scharlau; Abbey Olsen with two; sophomore Allison Lindquist with two; freshman Abby Curry; senior Jade Sorenson; and junior Emily Ausman with two.

Driving home runs for Elk Mound were: Hannah Brunner with two; Lauren Scharlau with three; Abbey Olsen with two; Allison Lindquist; Abby Curry; and Emily Ausman with two on the afternoon.

Elk Mound will try to keep it going as they try to stay undefeated in conference play as the season moves towards the middle of the year.