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In her second start of the year, Riley Stiles (Lake Forest College) was able to get out of the inning with a pair of strikeouts, leading Quinn Marnocha (South Dakota State) to even the game in the second with a solo blast of her own. It was her third homer of the year, and she became the third player on the team to hit that mark through seven games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mankato would have a big inning in the second to regain their lead, bringing home six runs on six singles and two walks. They capped the frame off with a three-run homer from Skylinn Pouge, hitting the ten-run mark just six outs into the contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The third inning was no better for Wausau, as they surrendered another five runs to the home team to stretch the deficit to 14. Kaitlyn Foster was able to drive home a runner in the fourth, but the Ignite couldn\u2019t capitalize with the bases loaded and stranded three to end the inning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paige Zender, last season\u2019s NWLS MVP, was able to homer for the first time this year in the fourth, helping the Habaneros put up four more runs in their final inning of work in the batter&#8217;s box.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wausau saw a late burst of offense in the top of the fifth when Molly Fitzgerald (Missouri-KC) hit a two-RBI single with two outs, but that would be the last frame of the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Ignite fall to 2-5 on the year and will return home on Wednesday to battle the 1-5 Steam, whom they beat in their inaugural game 12-2 after six innings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">###<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leveraging the 31-year success of the Northwoods League, the first for-profit Summer Collegiate Baseball League, Northwoods League Softball (NWLS) is the first for-profit Women\u2019s Summer Collegiate Softball League beginning play in the Upper Midwest in the summer of 2024.\u00a0 The purpose of the League will be to develop players for their college, Olympic and future professional play.\u00a0 Teams will be promoted similar to minor league baseball teams, playing games in front of fans in a fun, friendly, family-oriented environment.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wausau, WI- Wausau wasn\u2019t able to bounce back into the win column Tuesday, dropping a second straight game in Mankato,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":35790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[43,19,45,21],"class_list":["post-35789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-news","category-update-ticker","tag-northwoods-league-softball","tag-nwl-softball","tag-wausau-ignite","tag-wausau-wisconsin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ignite Can\u2019t Stop High-Powered Habaneros in Second-Straight Loss - Wausau Ignite<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The WAUSAU IGNITE are the newest team in Northwoods League Softball, the first for-profit Women\u2019s Summer Collegiate Softball League. 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