New Lothrop's cold bats continued on Wednesday loosing 2-1 in the opener of a double header to Freeland.  Freeland is the number 9 rated team in division 2. New lothrop could only manage 2 hits spoiling a pitching gem by Mallory Heroux

Heroux went 7 innings giving up 3 hits 2 run (0 ER) striking out 9 and walking 4.

The only New Lothrop run came on a solo home run by Victoria Henige in the 4th inning.  

New Lothrop had 3 errors and 4 walks on the game witch proved costly in this close game.

 After only scoring 2 runs in the last 3 games the hornets finally got the offense going in the second game to secure a 6-5 win.  NL scored 6 runs on 10 hits.

Delaney Gross started the game going 4.2 innings giving up 8 hits 4 runs (4 ER) walking 0 and striking out 3.  Brianna Heroux came into a pitch the last 2.1 innings getting the win.  She gave up 1 hit, 1 run (0 ER) striking out 3.

It took until the top of the 5th before the Hornets offense started to break out scoring 4 runs.  B. Heroux started the scoring with a solo home run.  NL then scored 3 runs with 2 outs.  Damman had a bunt single, followed by singles by Marissa Rombach and Brynne Birchmeier.  Orr double on line drive to right field clearing the bases.  Freeland scored 3 in the bottom of the 5th to tie the game at 4.    The score remained tied until the top of the 7th when NL scored 2 runs.  Rombach singled, followed by singled by Birchmeier and Orr to load the bases.  A passed ball scored Rombach.  Freeland intentionally walked Henige to load the bases again.  Mak Wendling worked a walk scoring Birchmeier to close out the scoring for NL.

The hornets had a balanced offense lead by Rombach going 3-3, with a walk and scored 2 runs.  Orr went 2-4 with a single, double and 3 RBIS.  Birchmeier went 2-4, Henige went 1-2 with a double and 2 intentional walks. B. Heroux had the lone home run of the game.

New Lothrops record is not 16-7 and they travel to Swartz Creek on Saturday for a tournament