The Screaming Eagles (21-13, 9-3 GLVC) won the opener, 2-0, before edging the Bulldogs, 4-3, in the nightcap.
Game 1
Despite being held to just three hits, USI was able to earn a 2-0 victory thanks to patience at the plate. USI hitters drew a season-high 10 walks, including four in the Eagles’ two-run sixth inning that broke a scoreless tie.
Following a lead-off single by sophomore outfielder Jessica Tucker (Georgetown, Kentucky) in the last half of the sixth inning, USI proceeded to draw walks in four of its next five at-bats. Leonhardt pushed across the first run of the game with a free pass, while junior outfielder Allison Schubert (Nicholasville, Kentucky) pushed across the second run on one of her three walks on the day.
Leonhardt (13-4) earned the win in the circle after scattering three hits and four walks throughout seven innings of shutout ball. She racked up 11 strikeouts as she finished her seventh complete-game shutout of the year (she has had two more combined shutouts) and her seventh shutout in her last eight starts.
Game 2
Senior outfielder/pitcher Caitlyn Bradley (Forest, Indiana) had a two-run double in the first and Leonhardt had a two-run single in the second as the Eagles jumped out to a commanding 4-0 advantage in game two.
Truman State (16-9, 4-8 GLVC), however, scored a run in the top of the third inning and two more in the fifth inning to close the gap.
Bradley, however, entered the circle to get the Eagles out of a jam in the fifth and pitched a perfect sixth inning, while Leonhardt struck out two of the three batters she faced in the seventh to preserve the win and pick up her team-best third save of the year.
Senior pitcher Haley Smith (Florence, Kentucky) earned the win to improve to 3-1 on the year after scattering three runs off six hits in four-and-two-thirds-innings of work.
