Softball Sweeps the Day as D'Ambrosio Walks-Off Extra Inning Thriller

Saturday, April 23

Kansas City, Mo.

11:00 AM

Kansas City

9-29, 0

Western Illinois

7-29, 0

Western Illinois

Kansas City Roos

Softball Sweeps the Day as D'Ambrosio Walks-Off Extra Inning Thriller

4/23/2022 6:20:00 PM | Softball

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Coach Shaw Earns 100th Career Victory

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City Softball (10-29, 6-7) conquered the weather and Western Illinois (7-30, 3-11) in the day one double-header. Mia Hoveland recorded a four-hit shutout in game one, as the Roos' extra base hits lifted KC over WIU, 4-0. Kansas City needed extra innings in game two to walk-off the victory, 4-3, off the bat of Alexis D'Ambrosio that brought in Ashley Thorne as the winning run. The game two victory marked Head Coach Kerry Shaw's 100^th career win.

GAME 1 KEY MOMENTS

Bottom 1 / 3-0 | Kloe Hilbrenner leadoff reaching base with her speed on an error by the second baseman. She later scored on a double by Ally Vonfeldt and then D'Ambrosio added two more to the scoreboard with a base clearing triple.
Bottom 4 / 4-0 | Hilbrenner brought around Katelyn Garcia to score on a double to the left-centerfield fence.
Top 7 / 4-0 | Kansas City's defense remained flawless, and Hoveland recorded the shutout.

GAME 1 STATS TO NOTE

Hilbrenner, Vonfeldt and D'Ambrosio all hit multi-base hits and combined for all four of the Roos' runs batted in.
Hilbrenner and Ashley Thorne both recorded stolen bases in the game, they combine for 30 of the Roos' 33 stolen bases this season.
Hoveland earned her third shutout of the season, pitching a complete seven innings, giving up four hits and adding seven strikeouts.

GAME 2 KEY MOMENTS

Top 2 / 0-2 | The Leathernecks scored a run in each of the first two innings.
Bottom 4 / 1-2 | Marina Karnes recorded a two-out infield single that scored Vonfeldt.
Bottom 5 / 2-2 | Ashley Thorne led off the inning with a hit and came in to score on D'Ambrosio's sac fly.
Top 7 / 3-2 | A leadoff triple came into score the go-ahead run for Western Illinois.
Bottom 7 / 3-3 | Thorne leadoff the inning with another hit, Garcia bunted her into scoring position and Hilbrenner brought her home with a line drive to the outfield to tie the game.
Bottom 8 / 4-3 | Thorne started a two-out rally with a hit, then the Roos loaded the bases with a walk by Garcia and an intentional walk to Hilbrenner. D'Ambrosio seized the moment and drove a line drive up the middle to score Thorne and walk-off the game.

GAME 2 STATS TO NOTE

Thorne finished the day 3-for-4 with three runs scored. She also tallied another stolen base to remain a perfect 8-for-8 this season.
Hilbrenner had a season-high four stolen bases to bring her season total to 27, which moved her into top-15 in the country in stolen bases this season.
D'Ambrosio, Hilbrenner and Karnes all had two hits apiece and at least one run driven in.
Stickel came on in relief in the second inning and earned the victory. She completed 6.2 innings pitched, only giving up four hits and one run, while striking out four.

UP NEXT
Kansas City will finish the series against Western Illinois tomorrow morning at 11 a.m. at the Urban Youth Academy - Home of the Roos.