The state-ranked Union Grove softball team has probably had enough of Wilmot’s Kristen Wood.

For the second time this season, the freshman pitcher dominated the Broncos in Wilmot’s 2-0 Southern Lakes Conference victory Monday in Union Grove.

The victory enabled the Panthers to move into a tie for first with Union Grove at 9-2. Wilmot is 14-2 overall while Union Grove, ranked fifth in the latest Wissports.net Division-1 poll, is 19-2.

The Panthers can claim a share of the SLC crown — their first league title since 2001 — with a win at home today against Elkhorn.

“We told our kids from day one (that if we) play good defense, be fundamentally sound, score a couple of runs and get solid pitching, we’ll win the close games,” Wilmot coach Bob Movrich said. “So far we’ve been right.”

Solid pitching may be understating Wood’s contributions.

Backed by an errorless defense, Wood gave up two hits and one walk while striking out 11 in improving 10-2. She has fanned 77 batters in 143 innings while surrendering just two earned runs this season.

In her two victories against Union Grove, Wood has struck out 23 batters while allowing just five hits in 14 scoreless innings.

Wilmot touched Union Grove ace Emily McClelland for unearned runs in the fourth and sixth innings. In the fourth, Emily Svejnoha scored on Sydney Rozell’s grounder. Two innings later, Wood singled and scored on an error.

St. Joseph takes title

The St. Joseph pitching staff limited Christian Life to one run over two games as the Lancers clinched the Midwest Classic Conference North Division title with a doubleheader sweep at Prairie Springs Park.

The Lancers (13-5) rallied from a 1-0 deficit against CLS pitcher Brie Tennyson for a 5-1 victory in the opener and jumped all over Tennyson for a 9-0 victory in the nightcap.

“Leslie (Fletcher) and Kendall (Bonnin) did a nice job hitting their spots,” St. Joseph coach Ellen Santarelli said. “They buckled down when they needed to and had good, solid defense behind them.”

In Game 1, Bonnin broke a 1-1 tie with a solo home run. Kailee Cable added a two-run single and Catherine Skurski a RBI double for the final score.

Tennyson (12-6) allowed four earned runs on five hits in the opener. The freshman walked none and struck out 16. Fletcher (8-2) got the victory striking out 10 and walking one while scattering four hits for the Lancers.

In Game 2, Fletcher and Shannon Riley had RBI hits in St. Joseph’s four-run first inning. The Lancers plated two more in the third and solo tallies in the fourth, fifth and sixth.

Tennyson struck allowed five earned runs on nine hits with three walks and 12 strikeouts in the second game. Bonnin struck out seven, walked none and allowed just two hits in the shutout for St. Joseph.

Fletcher had five singles and three RBI over the two games.

Trojans win

Tremper shook off a tough weekend by blanking host Franklin 2-0 in Southeast Conference action.

Tiegen Leable allowed three hits and one walk while striking out eight for the Trojans (11-5, 8-2 SEC). Tremper lost to Central and Wilmot on Saturday.

“Leable was hitting her spots and had good movement on the ball,” Tremper coach Doug Townsend said. “(She) pitched one of her better games today.”

“We had a rough weekend, but were able to get back on track.”

Sarah Thornborough and Jessie Werbie had two hits apiece for Tremper. Werbie also had two RBI.

Sittig helps Pacers split

Shoreland went 1-1 in taking second at the Lakeside Lutheran Invitational in Jackson.

The Pacers (13-6) defeated Lakeside Lutheran 11-10 on Bekah Sittig’s game-ending RBI before bowing to Watertown Luther Prep 8-6 in the championship game.

Against Lakeside, Sittig drove in Kim Gall, who had singled with two outs and taken third on Brittanny Bahr’s hit.

Kathryn Marquardt got the win. Gall was 3-for-4 while Mindy Schalinske had three hits and two RBIs.

Five errors doomed Shoreland in the loss to Prep.

“We suffered a letdown from the emotional, game-ending win and then turning around and playing 20 minutes later,” Shoreland coach Tim Treder said. “We didn’t respond well is probably the morale of the story.”

Falcons romp

Ashley Banike, Jessie Clark and Bry Heckel combined to drive in seven runs in Central’s 15-0 win in five innings over Delavan-Darien in an SLC game in Paddock Lake.

Central sandwiched a pair of seven run innings around a run in the second in improving to 12-6 and 6-5 in the SLC.

Heather Pohlman went the first four innings for the win while Kristin Kretschmer pitched the fifth.