The Norwalk softball team was swept in a doubleheader by Waukee Northwest on Wednesday night while the Warrior baseball squad lost 1-0 to Des Moines Roosevelt.

Both softball games were tightly-contested until the late innings. The Class 5A fifth-ranked Wolves won the first game 5-0, scoring two runs in the sixth and three in the seventh. Game two was tied 2-2 in the first inning and stayed that way until Waukee Northwest plated five runs in the eighth to win 7-2 – heard live on 94.3 KNIA and the KNIA3 stream.

The Class 4A third-ranked Warriors managed just two hits off Northwest 8th grade pitcher Sophia Schlader in game one – a single and a double by Nyah Hulbert. Norwalk pitcher Carly Brewer cruised through five innings but ran into some tough luck in the sixth and the seventh, allowing five hits and four earned runs for the game.

The nightcap featured some early fireworks in the form of first-inning two-run homers by Northwest’s Kaylee Cords and Norwalk’s Brewer. The next six innings turned into a pitchers duel between the Wolves’ Aubrey Schultz and Warrior senior Olivia Dougherty. Dougherty retired eight straight batters early in the game and had another stretch of 10 consecutive outs entering the eighth.

Aided by two walks and two errors, Northwest tallied five runs on three hits in the extra frame, highlighted by a Cords two-run double. Dougherty finished with seven strikeouts in defeat. Norwalk outhit the Wolves 9-6 but struck out nine times against Schultz and stranded eight runners on base. Hulbert added three more hits for the Warriors, Maddie Gullien was 2-for-4 and Grace Dehmer hit a double.

Wednesday’s baseball game was moved to the new Fareway Fields complex in Norwalk due to wet grounds on the high school diamond. Roosevelt defeated the Warriors 1-0 behind a three-hit shutout and 13 strikeouts by pitcher Andrew Swanda. Swanda also drove in the game’s only run in the fourth inning.

The Norwalk baseball team is now 13-16 overall and will play at Waukee Northwest on Monday night. The Warrior softball team dropped to 26-7 on the season and will return to action Monday night at Council Bluffs Lewis Central.