The #5 Norwalk softball team blanked Warren County rival #7 Indianola Monday evening in a Little Hawkeye Conference matchup 7-0.

Warrior pitcher Zadie Wadle was near unhittable on the evening, allowing only two Indians hits and earning 12 strikeouts, six of them looking.

Warrior catcher Lauren Black hit a solo homerun in the second to get the scoring started, and the Warriors piled it on after that, with Black hitting an RBI double in the second, and scoring on errors in the fifth and sixth innings before adding an insurance run in the seventh off of a Jaylynn Brandt hit.

Wadle tells KNIA Sports sitting on the sidelines due to an injury last year made her want to get to work in the offseason, which she attributes much of her success this year to.

“I was out nearly all of last season, so this year I’ve been working really hard in the offseason. I pitched a lot and I was running to get my endurance up. I really worked in the offseason. I was tough being out for eight months, and coming back has been a lot of fun.”

Norwalk improves to 11-2 and 9-1 in Little Hawkeye Conference play on the season and will match up with Dowling Catholic in a non-conference doubleheader this evening, while the Indians fall to 12-6 and 7-2, and will wait until tomorrow evening for a doubleheader on the road at Pella.