The season ended Thursday for the Rainy River Community College softball team following two straight losses in the NJCAA Region 13B Tournament at Grand Rapids.
The Voyageurs were only able to generate 3 hits when they opened the four-team, double-elimination tournament with a 6-0 loss to Itasca.
“Itasca, I feel, is a cut above everybody,” said RRCC head coach Dieter Humbert. “Their pitching is just so strong.”
Lindsey White picked up the pitching victory for Itasca as she struck out seven batters.
Marangeli Sanchez accounted for two of the Voyageurs’ 3 hits.
RRCC’s Cateline Fafard recorded the loss pitching the first 3 1/3 innings, allowing 4 runs, one earned, on 5 hits while striking out two. Kristen Cruickshank gave up 2 unearned runs on a hit pitching in relief.
NDSCS 4, RRCC 2
The Voyageurs left five runners on base over the final two innings when they lost the elimination game in the losers’ bracket to the North Dakota State College of Science, 4-2.
RRCC once again could only generate 3 hits for the game and stranded the bases loaded in the sixth and runners and second and third in the seventh inning.
Colby Redhead took the loss for the Voyageurs after pitching the first two innings, allowing 3 runs, one earned, on a hit with 3 walks while striking out a batter. Fafard worked the next four innings and allowed an earned run on 2 hits with 2 walks and 4 strikeouts.
RRCC, which had a 16-4 record in the Minnesota College Athletic Conference’s Northern Division and placed third in the MCAC North based on division points, finished 19-21 overall.
