Women’s Softball: FSU senior third base­man Makenzi Peterson pulls back to throw dur­ing a game against Lake Erie ear­lier this sea­son. The Lady Bulldogs are now 26–22 for the 2012 sea­son. Photo Courtesy by Ferris State Photo Services

Ferris State University began a five game win­ning streak in Midland, Mich. against Northwood University.

Ferris claimed a sweep over the Northwood Timberwolves April 18. The Bulldogs defeated Northwood 6–3 in the first game of the series. Ferris then closed the day with a 13–5 vic­tory over the Timberwolves.

Rival Saginaw Valley State University tested the Bulldogs in a two day, four game series April 21–22 in Big Rapids.

Ferris swept Saginaw Valley April 21 in their first day of dou­ble­head­ers by claim­ing 5–1 and 8–7 vic­to­ries, respectively.

“I thought our hit­ting was really great [against SVSU], we scored a lot of runs,” FSU junior pitcher Dana Bowler said. “Gave up quite a bit of runs in that fourth game. But it’s always hard to play a team four times in a row. They saw all of our pitchers.”

Junior catcher Liz Hamming hit her ninth home­run of the sea­son in the first game of the day. Sophomore des­ig­nated player and pitcher Amy Dunleavy posted two hits, scored two runs, and bat­ted in two herself.

The sec­ond game of the night fea­tured a game-tying grand slam by Saginaw Valley. The Cardinals were down 5–1 in the bot­tom of the sev­enth, with two outs against them. Despite SVSU’s efforts at tying the game, the Bulldogs regained the lead off of RBI’s from FSU juniors Lainee Clay and Lindsey Pettit.

Both teams met again April 22 to fin­ish the series with their last dou­ble­header. The Bulldogs man­aged to defeat SVSU in the first game 3–1. Saginaw Valley came back in the final game to defeat the Bulldogs 13–12.

Ferris State is 17–13 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The Bulldogs are 26–22 over­all. Ferris State hopped into a second-place tie with Hillsdale. Bowler said the Bulldogs stance in the GLIAC is impor­tant most right now.

“It’s always good to go into the GLIAC tour­na­ment with string­ing some wins together,” Bowler said.

The Bulldogs have offi­cially clinched a spot in the GLIAC Tournament. The 2012 GLIAC Tournament will take place April 27–29 in Findlay, Ohio. Seeding will be deter­mined once each team has com­pleted their season.

“Hopefully we’ll get that sec­ond seed if we take two against Lake State and Saginaw and Hillsdale split,” Bowler said.

Before Ferris begins tour­na­ment play the Bulldogs will fin­ish reg­u­lar sea­son play at Lake Superior State University April 24. Ferris has swept Lake Superior on the road once this season.

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