PISCATAWAY, N.J. – It was Rutgers softball who got onto the scoreboard first on Sunday morning at the Rutgers Softball Complex to take a 2-0 lead after two innings of play. However, the Wisconsin Badgers stormed back to exit "The Banks" with a 10-2 victory.

Wisconsin 10, Rutgers 2

STANDOUT STATS

• Freshman Kayla Bock and sophomore Payton Lincavage with both 1-for-2 with a run scored.
• Lincavage knocked in both Scarlet Knight runs in the second for Rutgers' first lead of the series with her second home run of the year.

THE RUNDOWN

• The bottom of the second opened with Bock landing a double into centerfield and Lincavage following by sending a 2-2 pitch over the fence in left for the 2-0 advantage.
• Wisconsin responded with six runs on six hits on their next at bat. The Badgers saw an RBI single by Abby Herbst, a two-run double from Lauren Foster and a three-run home run from the bat of Christaana Angeloupos.
• The visitors put up an additional  three runs in the fourth on a two-run shot from Megan Donahue and Foster recording her third RBI of the game on a base hit.
• The Badger's Skylar Sirdashney scored the game's final run off a Scarlet Knight miscue in the outfield in the sixth.
   

KNIGHT NOTES

• Bock registered her team-leading sixth double of the season.
• Lincavage's home run was the third of her career.
• Freshman Leilani Chavez finished the Wisconsin series 3-for-7 to hit .429 over the four games with two doubles, a triple and an RBI.
• Graduate student Gabrielle Callaway batted .400 over the weekend with a double and extended her current hit streak to seven.
   

HIGHLIGHTS

 

UP NEXT

Rutgers softball is back on the road to meet Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio for a four-game series beginning Friday, April 23.

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