Detroit vs. Green Bay Game 3 Stats (HTML)

Senior catcher Jessica Liebner (Ortonville, MI/Brandon) led off the fifth inning with her second home run in as many days, and the Titans added another score and two more hits in the frame, but it was too little, too late as Detroit dropped the weekend finale to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 13-2, in five.

Green Bay (17-8, 3-2 Horizon League) starter Tieraney Planasch entered the fifth with a perfect game bid intact, but Liebner quickly ended that thought with her team-leading third homer of the season, a drive to right center field, making the score 13-1. Planasch got the next two batters out, but freshman right fielder Katie Schaus (Unionville, MI/Unionville-Sebewaing Area) blasted Detroit's (2-22, 0-12 Horizon Leauge) second extra-base hit of the frame, a double off the fence that Liebner's hit had recently cleared. Senior left fielder Brigid Mulroy (West Bloomfield, MI/Marian) came to the plate next and reached base on a sharp groundball that was mishandled by the UWGB shortstop, which allowed Schaus to scoot up to third. Titan sophomore second baseman Melissa Barrett (Taylor, MI/Kennedy) then tallied her second RBI of the season on a bouncer up the middle to bring Schaus in to score and advance Mulroy to second. But, after allowing three consecutive runners to reach base, and Detroit to close the gap to 13-2, Planasch recorded her fourth strikeout of the day to end the game.

Freshman Anna Bondy (Newport, MI/Carleton-Airport) got the starting nod again on Sunday, her third of the weekend, but struggled in one-plus inning of work, giving up six hits and eight runs, seven of which were earned. Sophomore Kara Spinelli (Newman, CA/Orestimba) entered the game in relief of Bondy in the second. The Phoenix scored six runs on Spinelli, four in second and three in third, but the sophomore then settled in, sitting the visitors down in order in the fourth and stranding their only base runner in the fifth.

The Titans, still in search of their first conference victory, will host Youngstown State at Buysse Ballpark for a three-game series beginning at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday afternoon with a doubleheader. The Penguins are currently 8-22 on the season, and sport a 1-4 record in Horizon League play. Detroit swept the series against YSU last season, and holds a 12-8-1 advantage in the all-time series. Check out live stats of the games via Gametracker here!