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MARSHFIELD – The Marshfield Columbus Catholic softball team scored four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to break open a tie game and eventually beat Owen-Withee 9-7 in a Cloverbelt Conference East Division game Monday at the Central Wisconsin Fairgrounds.
Victoria Dieringer was 2-for-3 with two doubles and two RBIs, and Olivia Larson was 2-for-2 and scored three times for the Dons, who are 3-1 in their last four games and improve to 5-7 overall and 4-5 in the Cloverbelt East. O-W falls to 2-10, 2-8 in conference play.
Columbus led 4-1 after three innings before the Blackhawks tied it in the fourth. Each team scored a run in its next at-bat before the Dons scored four times in the fifth off Britt Zoellick (11 strikeouts, seven walks).
Owen-Withee scored twice in the sixth but Katelyn Welsh (one strikeout, no walks) held the Blackhawks scoreless in the seventh to preserve the win.
Columbus hosts first-place Neillsville at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Fairgrounds.
Dons 9, Blackhawks 7
Owen-Withee 010 312 0 – 7 8
Columbus 220 140 x – 9 6
WP: Katelyn Welsh. LP: Britt Zoellick.
SO: Zoellick 11; Welsh 1. BB: Zoellick 7; Welsh 0.
Top hitters: O-W, Jackie Peissig 2-for-3, 3B, 3 RBIs. C, Olivia Larson 2-for-2, 2B, 3 runs, 3 SBs; Victoria Dieringer 2-for-3, 2 2Bs, 2 RBIs; Erin Knoeck 2 runs.
Records: Owen-Withee 2-10, 2-8 Cloverbelt East; Columbus 5-7, 4-5 Cloverbelt East.
