DePaul WSB Sweeps Butler

Chicago IL

03 May, 2021

11:01 AM

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DePaul traveled to Butler and came away with a three game sweep. DePaul allowed Butler to cross the plate two times in the entire series. DePaul won the first game 2-0. Each team managed only three hits in the game. Fortunately for DePaul, two of those hits from Brooke Johnson were RBI producers. Johnson singled in the fourth to score Kate Polucha and homered in the seventh. Krista Dalgarn went the distance, allowing three hits, with one strike out and no walks. She is now 11-2. DePaul completed the doubleheader sweep with a 5-1 win. DePaul saved the heroics for the end of the game though. Illinois started with one run in the first. All was quiet until DePaul tied it in the sixth. Nicole Sullivan hit a sac fly to score Erin Hocker. With the game tied 1-2, DePaul exploded for four tuns in the seventh. Polucha hit a sacrifice fly to score Grace Frazier. Skylor Hilger and Angela Scalzitti reached base and scored on a Jess Cothern hit. Johnson doubled to score Cothern and make it 5-1, which is where it ended. Natalie Halvorson went the distance, improving to 8-3. She allowed eight hits, while striking out seven and walking none. On Sunday, DePaul got out their brooms with a 3-1 win. The Blue Demons extended their win streak to six games and closed out the BIG EAST regular season 13-1, their best conference finish since going 18-1 in 2014. They are 22-9 overall. DePaul got out to a 2-0 lead. In the first, with Maranda Gutierrez on base, Tori Meyer doubled. In the fourth, Johnson and Sullivan singled. Meyer singled to score Johnson making it 2-0. After Butler scored one in the bottom of the fifth, DePaul matched the run in the seventh. Scalzitti singled and stole second. Polucha's single advances Scalzitti to third and Cothern singled to make it 3-1. Halvorson went five innings, allowing just three hits to improve to 9-3. Halvorson is a perfect 7-0 in BIG EAST play with a 1.89 ERA. Krista Dalgarn earned her second save of the season, working two innings in relief. DePaul wraps up its regular season May 7-8 with three games at Cacciatore Stadium. The Blue Demons face UIC on Friday and Saturday and Western Illinois on Sunday to close out the season.