DePaul University Athletics
DePaul University
Wisconsin
Blue Demons Downed by Wisconsin, 9-0.
3/1/2015 12:00:00 AM | SOFTBALL
Box Score: Wisconsin 9, DePaul 0 
LAS VEGAS - The DePaul softball team could not get the bats going in the finale of the Alexis Park Resort Classic on Sunday, as the Blue Demons fell to Wisconsin, 9-0.
DePaul (6-12) was shutout for only the second time this season and was held to just three hits in the six-inning affair.
After a clean start in the first two innings, Wisconsin (6-10) got on the board with a bases-clearing triple and a RBI single to take a 4-0 lead.
Badgers pitcher Taylor-Paige Stewart kept the Blue Demon offense off-balance in the first four frames, totaling five strikeouts and only allowing one hit - a Dylan Christensen single in the second.
The runs kept coming for Wisconsin as the road team plated two runs in the fifth and three in the sixth to take the game by run rule.
Besides Christensen, Kali Gardner and Megan Leyva were the other Blue Demons to notch a hit in the game.
The platoon of Mary Connolly, Maxine Rodriguez and Leyva split the six innings, combining for nine runs and eight hits allowed.
DePaul returns to action this weekend when it stays in state for the Coach B Classic, hosted by Southern Illinois, March 7-8.
Notes: This was the sixth meeting between the programs all-time… DePaul holds a 4-2 edge in the series… Kali Gardner registered her first double of the season… the Blue Demons were shutout for only the second time this season (Hawaii, Feb. 6)… DePaul allowed a season-high five stolen bases… Nicole Pihl recorded a career-best 25 putouts in a three-day span… Morgan Maize played in her 100th career game… current Wisconsin head coach Yvette Healy is a former player for DePaul and was a member of the 1999 Women's College World Series team that placed third.
