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Crunch Time

Bulldogs split the weekend, regular season coming to an end

by Published: Apr 18, 2012

Losing to Ashland: Freshman short­stop Michelle Tononi pulls back to throw to first base dur­ing a game this sea­son. The Bulldogs will take on Northwood April 18. Photo By:Brock Copus | Multimedia Editor

The Bulldogs are back at a .500 win­ning per­cent­age after win­ning two games at Lake Superior State before the week­end. Now Ferris State will focus on the final four dou­ble­head­ers of the season.

“We’re excited to be at 500,” Dunleavy said. “We were a few games behind and it wasn’t look­ing too good and we have had a pretty good turn around lately.”

Ferris State University faced three dif­fer­ent teams on the Bulldogs home field April 13–15.

FSU began their three-game home stand by sweep­ing con­fer­ence foe Lake Erie on April 13. The Bulldogs won 4–1 in the first game before win­ning the sec­ond game of the dou­ble­header 10–0. Ferris State Sophomore pitcher Amy Dunleavy threw a single-hit game while tal­ly­ing two hits and three RBI’s on offense.

FSU split a league dou­ble­header against Ohio Dominican April 14. The Bulldogs began the series with a 7–0 vic­tory. ODU defeated FSU 8–6 in the sec­ond game. Dunleavy said Ohio Dominican turned up their offense in the sec­ond game by becom­ing more aggressive.

Ferris fin­ished their home stand against the South Division leader of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Ashland University, April 15. Ashland entered the game ranked sec­ond in the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional rank­ings and received votes in the national poll.

Ashland defeated FSU 7–4 and 5–4, respec­tively. Dunleavy hit a home run while junior Morgan Kramerich hit her fourth dou­ble of the sea­son and drove in two runs.

The Bulldogs are 21–21 over­all this sea­son. Ferris has built a 12–12 con­fer­ence record and is sit­ting in third place in the GLIAC.

Ferris State will pack their bags for a dou­ble­header April 18 against Northwood. The Timberwolves are nip­ping at the Bulldogs heels in the stand­ings, sit­ting in fourth place with a 13–13 record in the GLIAC.

After the Bulldogs visit Northwood, rival Saginaw Valley State will come to Big Rapids April 20–21 for the Bulldogs last home games of the season.

“The rest of our games are really impor­tant to our stand­ings in the GLIAC,” Dunleavy said. “We need to keep the teams that are below us where they are in the standings.”

Before the Bulldogs get ready for the GLIAC Tournament April 27–29, Ferris will travel to Lake Superior State for their final dou­ble­header of the season.