University of St. Thomas Athletics
Friday, April 5
St. Paul, Minn.
2:00 p.m. Central
6-29, 2-5
3
vs
11
Omaha
27-7, 4-0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
R
H
E
Omaha
0
1
0
0
0
9
1
0
11
14
0
St. Thomas
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
X
3
5
0
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Meyer, Kamryn (16-3)
L: Crawford, Christina (1-15)
Batting:
2B: Thomason, Sydney 1 ; Wilwerding, Haley 1 ; Cramer, Marra 1
3B: Schmidt, Sammy 1 ; Olson, Alex 1
RBI: Tucker, Lynsey 2 ; Schmidt, Sammy 2 ; Wilwerding, Haley 2 ; Olson, Alex 1 ; Johnson, Jaelle 2 ; Cramer, Marra 2
SF: Olson, Alex 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Tucker, Lynsey 1 ; O'Brien, Maggie 1 ; Schmidt, Sammy 2 ; Rongisch, Ava 2 ; Ross, Sydney 1 ; Olson, Alex 1 ; Aden, Olivia 1 ; Cramer, Marra 2
SB: O'Brien, Maggie 1 ; Rongisch, Ava 1 ; Cramer, Marra 1
HBP: Tucker, Lynsey 1 ; Rongisch, Ava 1 ; Aden, Olivia 2
Batting:
HR: Cook, Ella 1
RBI: Cook, Ella 3
SH: Stierlen, Abbi 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Raymond, Kaitlyn 1 ; Wukawitz, Avery 1 ; Cook, Ella 1
CS: Carby, Cassidy 1
Game Leaders
AB
4
R
1
H
2
RBI
0
AB
3
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
AB
2
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
Players Mentioned
C/UT
/ Softball
P
/ SoftballP/UT
/ SoftballP
/ Softball
OF
/ Softball
INF
/ SoftballOF/SS
/ Softball
Photo by: Kylie Macziewski
Tommies spoil Omaha’s historic 16-game win streak with walk-off winner
4/5/2024 9:51:00 PM | Softball
Abbi Stierlen’s eighth-inning walk-off home run in game two put an end to one of the longest winning streaks in the country.
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The University of St. Thomas Softball team (7-29, 3-5 Summit League) dropped game one but broke Omaha's 16-game winning streak in walk-off fashion in game two of their conference series against the Mavericks (27-8, 4-1).
The Mavericks took control of game-one with a nine-run sixth inning to match Oklahoma's longest active win streak in 2024 with an 11-3 win over the Purple. Game two was much closer with multiple lead changes but the Tommies came out on top 5-3.
GAME ONE RECAP
The Summit League leading Omaha Mavericks capitalized on a two-out triple in the second inning to score the game's only run through five innings as Christina Crawford and Kamryn Meyer were deadlocked in a pitchers' duel.
That tightly contested score lasted no longer than the fifth inning as the Mavericks unloaded for nine runs on seven hits in the sixth. Ella Cook's three-run blast in the bottom half of the inning staved off the eight-run rule but Omaha added one more run in the top of the seventh off Keira Murphy to down the Toms 11-3
Kaitlyn Raymond led the Toms going 2 for 4 with two singles. Ella Cook's three-run home run added to her team-leading total (six) and those three RBI brought her season total to 28. Sydney MIckett and Morgan Klein each added singles. Klein's was just inches shy of becoming her fourth home run of 2024.
GAME TWO RECAP
Much like in game one, Omaha opened the scoring with one run in the second inning, this time off Tommie starting pitcher Ella Cook. Shortly after, the Tommies' bats came alive with an answer in the third inning.
Kaitlyn Raymond picked up where she left off in game one with a two-out single. Her resilience gave Avery Wukawitz a chance to bat in the inning and the sophomore did not let the opportunity go to waste. She roped her fourth home run of the season over the left center field wall to give St. Thomas a 2-1 lead. Ella Cook and Cassidy Carby continued with back-to-back singles after the home run but were left on base.
A resilient Maverick squad immediately took the lead back with two runs in the top of the fourth.
Once again, the Toms were down and once again Kaitlyn Raymond was the catalyst that sparked an offensive rally. The junior left fielder rifled an opposite-field line drive over the heads of the Omaha outfield and stretched a likely double into a hustle triple, her first of the season. After Wukawitz failed to drive Raymond home, Ella Cook sliced a single up the middle with two outs to tie the game at three.
After Cook tied the game, she locked down the Mavericks in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings. She allowed just one hit, one walk, and one hit-by-pitch during that stretch.
Her stellar pitching down the stretch opened the door for the offense in the bottom of the eighth. Morgan Klein slapped a two-out single through the left side of the Maverick infield. Following the single and with a two-strike count Abbi Stierlen turned around a frustrating doubleheader with a heroic two-run walk-off home run to snap the nation's longest win streak.
Ella Cook, Avery Wukawitz, Kaitlyn Raymond, and Cassidy Carby each recorded multi-hit games.
UP NEXT
St. Thomas plays their third and final game of the series against the Omaha Mavericks at South Field at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 7.
The Mavericks took control of game-one with a nine-run sixth inning to match Oklahoma's longest active win streak in 2024 with an 11-3 win over the Purple. Game two was much closer with multiple lead changes but the Tommies came out on top 5-3.
GAME ONE RECAP
The Summit League leading Omaha Mavericks capitalized on a two-out triple in the second inning to score the game's only run through five innings as Christina Crawford and Kamryn Meyer were deadlocked in a pitchers' duel.
That tightly contested score lasted no longer than the fifth inning as the Mavericks unloaded for nine runs on seven hits in the sixth. Ella Cook's three-run blast in the bottom half of the inning staved off the eight-run rule but Omaha added one more run in the top of the seventh off Keira Murphy to down the Toms 11-3
Kaitlyn Raymond led the Toms going 2 for 4 with two singles. Ella Cook's three-run home run added to her team-leading total (six) and those three RBI brought her season total to 28. Sydney MIckett and Morgan Klein each added singles. Klein's was just inches shy of becoming her fourth home run of 2024.
GAME TWO RECAP
Much like in game one, Omaha opened the scoring with one run in the second inning, this time off Tommie starting pitcher Ella Cook. Shortly after, the Tommies' bats came alive with an answer in the third inning.
Kaitlyn Raymond picked up where she left off in game one with a two-out single. Her resilience gave Avery Wukawitz a chance to bat in the inning and the sophomore did not let the opportunity go to waste. She roped her fourth home run of the season over the left center field wall to give St. Thomas a 2-1 lead. Ella Cook and Cassidy Carby continued with back-to-back singles after the home run but were left on base.
A resilient Maverick squad immediately took the lead back with two runs in the top of the fourth.
Once again, the Toms were down and once again Kaitlyn Raymond was the catalyst that sparked an offensive rally. The junior left fielder rifled an opposite-field line drive over the heads of the Omaha outfield and stretched a likely double into a hustle triple, her first of the season. After Wukawitz failed to drive Raymond home, Ella Cook sliced a single up the middle with two outs to tie the game at three.
After Cook tied the game, she locked down the Mavericks in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings. She allowed just one hit, one walk, and one hit-by-pitch during that stretch.
Her stellar pitching down the stretch opened the door for the offense in the bottom of the eighth. Morgan Klein slapped a two-out single through the left side of the Maverick infield. Following the single and with a two-strike count Abbi Stierlen turned around a frustrating doubleheader with a heroic two-run walk-off home run to snap the nation's longest win streak.
Ella Cook, Avery Wukawitz, Kaitlyn Raymond, and Cassidy Carby each recorded multi-hit games.
UP NEXT
St. Thomas plays their third and final game of the series against the Omaha Mavericks at South Field at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 7.
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