The Peacock softball team recovered from being shutout in game one of their doubleheader in Aberdeen, S.D. to earn a five-inning win over the Wolves in game two. Upper Iowa had eight hits in the loss in game one, but couldn't string hits together and dropped the game 4-0. Game two was a different story, as UIU's first four hitters reached base and the Peacocks scored four runs in the first en route to a 14-3 victory.
 
UIU finishes off a 10-game road trip with a doubleheader at Wayne State on Wednesday, April 22. Upper Iowa then returns home for the final two series of the regular season on April 25 and 26 against Sioux Falls and Southwest Minnesota State.
 
Game 1: Northern State 4, Upper Iowa 0

It appeared as though the Peacocks were primed to get on the board early in game one with Whitney Williams and Katie Mnichowicz each hitting singles to start the game. Unfortunately, Jacqueline Flood followed up the hits by lining into a double play, all but ending the UIU threat.
 
Northern State scored the game's first run in the bottom of the third. With two outs and a runner on, the Wolves put together three straight singles to plate a pair and take a 2-0 lead.
 
In the fifth, NSU would cushion its lead with an unearned run. Then the Wolves added an insurance run with a solo home run to lead off the sixth to finish off the scoring.
 
Flood took the loss in the circle, throwing six innings and surrendering seven hits and four runs, only two of which were earned. She struck out six and didn't walk any Wolves hitters.
 
Game 2: Upper Iowa 14, Northern State 3

The threat that UIU posed early in game one came to fruition in the second game. Williams and Mnichowicz once again reached to start the game, but this time Flood took advantage. The Peacocks' top hitter this season hit a home run to right center, giving Upper Iowa a 3-0 lead before the Wolves had a chance to hit. Erica Kirgan followed the homer with a double down the left field line and eventually scored on a Lauren Marlinghaus sacrifice fly, putting the Peacocks up 4-0.

The Wolves scored one run on a couple of walks and a hit in their half of the first, but the Peacocks responded with three more in the top of the second, pushing their lead to 7-1.
 
Neither team scored in the third, but that would be the only inning in the game without a crooked number.
 
Sammy Garrett led off the fourth inning with a solo home run, the first of her career at Upper Iowa. After a Shelby Crist walk, Mnichowicz joined the home run fun with a bomb of her own to right field. Marlinghaus got her second and third RBI's of the game a few batters later when she singled up the middle and Flood and Kirgan scored, making it a 12-1 Peacock lead.
 
The top of the fifth was déjà vu for NSU pitching as Mnichowicz went yard again, this time to center field, putting UIU up 14-1.
 
Northern State came up in the bottom of the fifth needing six runs to continue the game. The would get a pair of runs with two outs, but the Taylor Bjork was able to get the final hitter to fly out to center.
 
Bjork threw five innings, allowing just four hits and three runs, while striking out two and walking four.