- Sophomore Kierra Jungers pitches a perfect game in a 5-0 win over Neosho County CC
- Bears also beat Fort Scott CC, Southeast (Neb.) CC and Allen County CC
- Sophomore Jacki Baas and freshman Grace Herrem combine on a no-hitter
Sophomore Kierra Jungers of Fonda pitched a perfect game as the DMACC softball team won its last four games in the Midwest College Classic Feb. 27 and 28 at Shawnee Mission, Kan.
DMACC, ranked sixth in the Division II poll from the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), opened the tournament by splitting games against Indian Hills Community College (IHCC) and Iowa Western Community College (IWCC) on Feb. 26. Wins in their last four games gives the Bears a 9-2 record this season.
Jungers' performance came in the second game of Feb. 27, a 5-0 win over Neosho County Community College (NCCC). Earlier in the day DMACC beat Fort Scott Community College (FSCC), 6-0, and the Bears closed out the tournament with 17-1 and 10-0 wins over Southeast (Neb.) Community College (SECC) and Allen County Community College (ACCC) respectively on Feb. 28.
Jungers faced the minimum 21 batters and recorded 13 strikeouts in improving to 2-2 for the season.
Sophomore Macee Reiling of Dallas Center got Jungers all the runs she needed with a grand-slam home run in the top of the third inning. Reiling and freshman Morgan Neuroth of LeGrand led DMACC's 10-hit attack with three hits apiece, including a double by Neuroth. Freshman Mackenzie Mohler of West Des Moines had two hits and Neuroth drove in the other DMACC run which came in the sixth inning.
Neuroth and freshman Brooklyn Teerlinck of Bettendorf drove in two runs apiece in leading the Bears past FSCC. DMACC took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the second, scored twice in the third and closed out the win with a run in the fourth.
Reiling and freshman Luci Weber of Dubuque accounted for the Bears' only extra-base hits with one double apiece.
Sophomore Jacki Baas of Bondurant improved to 4-0 with the win. She allowed three hits, struck out nine and walked two.
Sophomore Mo Purdy of Des Moines belted two home runs and Reiling and Weber hit one each in the Bears' dismantling of SECC. Purdy and Reiling also doubled as did Mohler.
The Bears put the game away in five innings, scoring twice in the top of the first, eight times in the second, twice in the third and five times in the fourth. SECC tallied its lone run in the bottom of the first.
Reiling, Purdy and Teerlinck had three hits apiece in the win with Mohler and Weber coming away with two hits apiece. Purdy, Teerlinck and Weber drove in four runs apiece and Reiling had three RBIs.
Baas and freshman Grace Herrem of Fall Creek, Wis., combined on a no-hitter. Baas allowed one run and struck out four in three innings in the circle and Herrem struck out three batters and walked one in two innings of work.
Reiling and sophomore Erin Ades of Boone each homered as DMACC closed out the tournament with its win over ACCC. The Bears got the win behind four runs in the top of the third, two in the fifth and four in the seventh.
Ades, Reiling, Mohler, Neuroth and sophomores Bri Tigges of Urbandale and Baylor Gregory of Papillion, Neb., led DMACC at the plate with two hits apiece including doubles by Mohler, Tigges, Gregory. Teerlinck also doubled for the Bears. Ades came away with three RBIs and Gregory had two.
Jungers improved to 3-2 with the win. She threw six innings, allowing one hit and striking out 13 batters. Sophomore Brooklyn Baumgardner of Slater went one inning, allowing one hit and striking out one.
The DMACC softball team will play in the Branson Classic March 5 and 6 at Branson, Mo. The Bears will face FSCC and Murray State College (MSC) on March 5 and will play Johnson County Community College (JCCC) and Southern Illinois College (SIC) on March 6. MSC and JCCC are ranked first and 12th in NJCAA Division II.