The Upper Iowa softball team was back in action Tuesday afternoon under partly cloudy skies in Fayette as they took on the Golden Bears of Concordia-St. Paul.  Although the Peacocks were scheduled to play their next ten games on the road, unplayable field conditions in St. Paul forced the doubleheader to be moved to Eischeid Softball Complex.  Upper Iowa, playing as the visitors in the contests, hung with Golden Bears throughout the majority of the two games but in the end, CU swept the doubleheader by scores of 4-1 and 3-2.

After a scoreless first three innings in game one, UIU took a 1-0 lead on the Golden Bears when Adrienna Olson pounded a solo home run over the center field fence in the top half of the fourth inning.  However, the Golden Bears ended Peacock pitcher Sarah Dec’s streak of scoreless innings at ten when they answered in the bottom of the fourth with a run to tie the game at one.

A three-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning proved to be the difference in the game as Concordia-St. Paul won the opener of the doubleheader, 4-1.

Dec allowed six hits in her six innings of work while striking out two Golden Bear batters.

The offenses lacked in the second half of the twinbill as well.  Trailing 1-0 in the top of the fourth, UIU’s Erin Bennek stole home on a double steal as Chelsey Sechrest was taking second base to tie the contest, 1-1.  The Peacocks took their first lead of the afternoon in the very next inning when Bennek doubled to right center, scoring Robin Schaefer and giving UIU a 2-1 advantage.

Concordia-St. Paul posted a run in the sixth and ended the game with a two out walk-off hit to right center to finish the comeback and sweep Upper Iowa, 3-2.

Hurler Brooklyn Koranda scattered six hits over six and two-thirds innings of work.  The right hander struck out four while walking three.

The Peacocks outhit CU, 7-6, in the second game as Schaefer, Bennek and Erin Van Praag each registered two hits.

With the losses, UIU drops to 1-5 in the early part of the NSIC schedule while Concordia-St. Paul moves to 2-0.

The Peacocks will now start an eight-game stretch away from Fayette.  UIU travels to Winona, Minn. on Saturday to battle the #11-ranked Warriors of Winona State.  The first pitch of the NSIC doubleheader is set to begin at 1 p.m.