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WAUSAU – The Stratford softball team swept a pair of Marawood Conference South Division games on Tuesday at Sunnyvale Park, knocking off Wausau Newman Catholic 5-0 and Northland Lutheran 18-0.
Stratford is now 15-6 overall and 8-3 in the Marawood South heading into its conference finale Thursday at home against Auburndale. The Tigers host Spencer in a nonconference game, and its final regular-season game, on Friday.
Kiana Weiler pitched both games for the Tigers, allowing a total of seven hits and no walks.
Against Newman (4-8, 4-7 Marawood South), Weiler struck out nine and scattered three hits in the win.
Sammy Griesbach was 3-for-4 and scored twice, and Cassidy VanDerLeest had a single, a double and three RBIs for Stratford.
Weiler was 4-for-4 with a double and two RBIs, and Val Licciardi was 4-for-4 with three RBIs and two runs scored for the Tigers against Northland Lutheran (3-8, 2-8 Marawood South).
Brittany Bredemann, Sammy Griesbach, Anna Golbach and Sammy Kaiser added two hits apiece for Stratford.
Tigers 5, Cardinals 0
Stratford 000 101 3 – 5 10
Newman Catholic 000 000 0 – 0 3
Newman Catholic statistics not provided.
WP: Kiana Weiler.
SO: Weiler 9. BB: Weiler 0.
Top hitters: S, Brittany Bredemann 2B, run; Sammy Griesbach 3×4, 2 runs; Cassidy VanDerLeest 2×4, 2B, 3 RBIs; Sam Manecke 2×3, RBI.
Records: Stratford 14-6, 7-3 Marawood South; Wausau Newman Catholic 4-8, 4-7 Marawood South.
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Tigers 18, Wildcats 0
Northland Lutheran 000 00 – 0 4
Stratford 537 3x – 18 21
Northland Lutheran statistics not reported.
WP: Weiler.
SO: Weiler 6. BB: Weiler 0.
Top hitters: S, Bredemann 2×4, 2B, 2 runs, 2 RBIs; Griesbach 2×4, RBI; Weiler 4×4, 2B, 2 RBIs; Sammy Kaiser 2×4, 2 2Bs, 2 RBIs, 3 runs; Val Licciardi 4×4, 3 RBIs, 2 runs; McKenzie Ford 3 runs; Madisyn Daul 3 runs; Anna Golbach 2×3, 2 runs; Sydney Boeger 2 RBIs.
Records: Stratford 15-6, 8-3 Marawood South; Northland Lutheran 3-8, 2-8 Marawood South.