Owensboro, Ky. – Ashley Nowdomski and Colleen Cummings each went 3-for-4 in game two of Sunday's doubleheader against Kentucky Wesleyan College to help the UW-Parkside softball team earn a 5-1 win and split against the Panthers. KWC took the first game, 2-0.
 
Cummings went 5-for-7 on the day for the Rangers who finished their 2012 Great Lakes Valley Conference season at 6-30. Parkside split its four games on the weekend road trip with KWC and Southern Indiana.
                                                                                    
The Rangers will play their final games on Tuesday afternoon beginning at 3:00 p.m. at the Case Softball Complex. Parkside will host Saint Xavier University in a non-conference doubleheader.
 
Below are recaps from Sunday's games in Kentucky.
 
Game One (Box Score)
The Rangers threatened a few times in the opener but couldn't push one across against Panther hurlers, Jordan Vertz or Ashlee Winstead. Parkside had three innings with multiple runners on base but were never able to get a runner to third.
 
Back-to-back hits by Colleen Cummings and Lauren Vitiello in the first and sixth started one out rallies before Vertz came back to retire the next two hitters.
 
KWC scored single runs against Kelynn Sporer in both the second and the fifth. The freshman allowed just three hits in the contest without walking a batter. In fact, the Rangers out-hit the Panthers 6-3 in game one.
 
Trailing by two in the seventh, Parkside looked for a final rally. With one out, Sporer singled and Cecie Portillo walked to put two on base. But Winstead was able to record a pair of strikeouts to end the game.
 
Vitiello finished the game going 3-for-3, her fourth of the season with three hits. Cummings was 2-for-3 in the opener.
 
Game Two (Box Score)
The Panthers struck for a run in the first on consecutive doubles but from there it was all Rangers.
 
Three straight hits from the top of the order tied it in the third. Ashley Nowdomski and Cummings singled to start the inning. Vitiello then ripped her 13^th double of the season to bring in Nowdomski and make it 1-1.
 
Parkside took the lead in the fourth on an RBI-single by Nowdomski. She brought home pinch runner Kira Cooper who stole second after a walked to Kristin Kleinmeyer.
 
And with Kleinmeyer rolling in the circle, the Rangers put things away in the sixth. With runners at the corners, Portillo laid down a bunt single, allowing Bridget Walters to score to make it 3-1.
 
After Nowdomski's third hit loaded the bases, Cummings laced a two-run single to build a 5-1 lead.
 
Kleinmeyer finished it off by retiring 10 of the final 11 hitters she faced. She earned her third victory by allowing just one run on five hits with two strikeouts.
 
Walters also had a multi-hit game by going 2-for-4.