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DETROIT -- The Wayne State University softball team (37-9 overall, 17-5 GLIAC) concluded the regular-season as the hottest team in the conference winning its final 12 games including a pair of shutouts on the final day of the regular season, 8-0 and 9-0 over visiting Northwood University (26-14 overall, 17-7 GLIAC).  The two Warrior victories on Sunday moved WSU ahead of NU in the final GLIAC Standings, and with Grand Valley State's split on Sunday vs. Saginaw Valley, the Warriors finished second in the league standings.

WSU, the No. 2 seed, will begin GLIAC tournament play this Friday (May 2nd) vs. Ashland, the seventh-seed, at Noon.  The 2014 GLIAC tournament will be held at the Marathon Diamonds in Findlay, Ohio.

Game 1
The story of Sunday's opener was Warrior redshirt freshman pitcher Lyndsay Butler (Cambridge, Ont. / Centennial C.V.I.).  She retired the first nine Timberwolves batters before Ashley Lynn reached on a fielding error to start the fourth.  Butler escaped the frame with a sacrifice bunt, a groundout and a strikeout.  Those three consecutive outs started another nine consecutive batters being retired.

Butler (18-4) tossed her fourth no-hitter of the season and second of the week.  She struck out eight and did not walk a batter in a game that concluded after six innings due to the eight-run mercy rule.

Meanwhile, the Wayne State bats produced eight runs on 13 hits in five-plus innings. 

WSU tallied four runs in the second on four hits.  Julie Ingratta (Markham, Ont. / St. Thomas of Villanova College) started the frame with a single and Jade McGarr (Guelph, Ont. / St. James Catholic) followed with a bunt single with Ingratta making it all the way to third.  Saturday's hero with two game-winning RBI made it three in a row as Amanda Burnard (Canton, Mich. / Plymouth) laced a single through the left side.  After a walk to Gabby Williams (South Lyon, Mich.), Devin Hentschel (Wyoming, Mich. / Rogers) had an RBI groundout scoring McGarr.  Emily Cava (Oakville, Ont. / Cardinal Leger S.S.) drove in a pair of runs with a single up the middle chasing NU starter Maddison Sebald (12-5).

Hentschel started the fourth inning rally with a one-out single and scampered to third on a single down the right field line by Cava.  Logan White's (Brantford, Ont. / Johnson C.V.I.) sacrifice fly plated Henstchel to make it 5-0.

Wayne State added a pair of runs in the fifth as Emily Bryce (Rochester Hills, Mich. / Rochester Adams) had a leadoff double and pinch-runner Allie Buchanan (Cambridge, Ont. / Galt C.I.) advanced to third on Ingratta's infield hit.  McGarr singled through the right side increasing the lead to 6-0.  Following a sacrifice bunt by Burnard, Ingratta scored on a wild pitch.

The Warriors ended the game in the bottom of the sixth off NU reliever Kayla Gust.  Cava had a leadoff double, White had a bunt single and Butler followed with a single up the middle for the 8-0 margin.

Cava had the first four-hit game for a WSU player since Alison Allen on April 27, 2012, vs. Ashland.  Ingratta and McGarr each went 2-for-3.

Sebald surrendered four earned runs on five hits in 1.1 innings with no strikeouts and one walk.  Casey Brown allowed three earned runs on five hits in 3.2 innings before Gust allowed three hits and a run in the three batters she faced.

Game 2
The nightcap storyline was almost the same as Wayne State recorded nine runs on 11 hits and Warrior hurlers Briana Lee (Canton, Mich. / Salem) and Butler worked around four Northwood hits plus four walks to keep the Timberwolves off the scoreboard.

Lee (18-2) worked the first 4.1 innings allowing three hits and three walks with seven strikeouts.

Butler came on in the fifth with WSU clinging to a 3-0 advantage and a Northwood runner at second after Malinda Smith was thrown out at the plate trying to score on a double to right field.  Butler walked the first batter on a 3-2 offering to bring the tying run to the plate, but back-to-back strikeouts ended the fifth.  She retired the next five northwood batters until a two-out error in the bottom of the seventh allowed Butler to strikeout Stacey Klonowski for the third time of the day to end the game.

Wayne State scored at least one run in five of the seven innings starting with a single run in the top of the first off NU starter Vanessa Ewing (5-4).  White had a one-out infield single and Butler followed with an RBI double to right center.

The Warriors added a single run in the third as Cava reached on a dropped fly ball with one out.  She moved to second on a wild pitch and to third on another wild pitch.  Buchanan brought in Cava with a two-out single to left center.

In the fifth, Lee had a leadoff double and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by Shannon Hilton (Gilford, Ont. / Bradford).  Cava followed with a sacrifice fly to right making it 3-0.

Bryce started the two-run sixth with a double.  Ingratta's sacrifice bunt moved pinch-runner Catherine Rayos (Warren, Mich. / Mott) to third.  After a groundout, back-to-back walks to Burnard and Hentschel loaded the bases.  Pinch-hitter Ali Lince (St. Clair Shores, Mich. / Lakeview) delivered a two-run single to right center.

WSU's four-run seventh inning scoring spree started with White's infield hit.  Butler walked on four pitches as did Bryce.  Ingratta then laced a two-run double to left center and McGarr contributed an RBI single to center.  Wayne State's final run came on Hentschel's sacrifice fly.

Ewing was tagged with the loss after allowing four runs (three earned) on seven hits in five innings.  Brown recorded six outs allowing five earned runs on four hits with four walks and one strikeout.

White went 2-for-3 with two runs scored, with Bryce and Ingratta each adding two hits and a run scored.