TOPEKA, Kan. – The Washburn Ichabod softball team wrapped up the 2021 regular season with a doubleheader split with Central Missouri on Monday at Yager Stadium taking the opening game 3-2 before falling 3-1 in the nightcap. The Ichabods will now turn their attention to Central Missouri again this weekend as the two teams will face-off in the first round of the MIAA Tournament in Warrensburg. The Jennies will be the No. 2 seed and the Ichabods are the No. 7 seed. The opening series is a best 2 of 3 games starting Friday. Be sure to check back to wusports.com for updated schedule information.
 
Game 1 – WU 3, UCM 2
In the opening game, the Jennies (31-11, 20-6 MIAA) took advantage of an Ichabod error in the top of the first to jump out to the 1-0 lead. The Ichabods (27-16, 13-13 MIAA) would get on the board in the fourth inning on a solo home run by Ashton Friend, the first of two home runs of hers on the day after hitting one in the second game. Friend's home run tied the score at one.
 
In the fifth inning, Kimi Patterson led off the fifth inning with a solo home run and then after a double by Brianna Fuchs, Hadley Kerschen drove her in with a single to left.
 
The Jennies cut the lead to one in the sixth with back to back doubles but did not score again as the Ichabods as Reagan Hamm retired the five batters picking up the win moving to 14-10 on the season with seven strikeouts and one walk allowing one earned run.
 
Six different Ichabods had one hit in the opener.
 
Game 2 – UCM 3, WU 1
As in the first game, Central Missouri scored an early run off an Ichabod miscue, one of three in the game, to go up 1-0 in the second game. Washburn as held without a hit until the fourth inning when Marrit Mead hit a single down the left field line.
 
The Jennies did not collect their first hit of Ichabod starter Ashlie Thissen until the seventh when Jessica Sader started the inning with a single and then Abbey Fischer cleared the bases with a triple to center for both of their hits in the game.
 
Mead also had a single in the sixth inning and then Friend hit her team-leading 12^th home run of the season in the seventh avoiding the shutout but the Ichabods went down in order to finish the game.