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The lead would be sliced in half in the bottom of the frame with an RBI single from Sydney Farmer, but the Ingite managed to escape the inning on a double play.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the second, the Honeybees would jump ahead on a pair of two-out hits from Makenna Alexander and Carly Cummings that brought home two runs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The middle innings were a pitching duel between the squads, as the score remained the same until the bottom of the sixth, where Alexander hit a homer to deep centerfield to give the Honeybees a three-run lead. The Ignite wouldn\u2019t be able to overcome the deficit with their final three outs, dropping another game on the road.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riley Stiles (Lake Forest) had another solid performance in the circle on Monday, pitching 4.1 innings, allowing just one hit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wausau loses their sixth-straight game and sits at 6-14 on the year. Tuesday will be a doubleheader between the Honeybees and Ignite, with first pitch of game one scheduled for 4:05 pm CT.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">###<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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- The Ignite kept it close until the end, but weren\u2019t able to secure the win in game one  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":35913,"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":[42,46,43,19,45,41,21],"class_list":["post-35912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-news","category-update-ticker","tag-collegiate-softball","tag-ignite-softball","tag-northwoods-league-softball","tag-nwl-softball","tag-wausau-ignite","tag-wausau-ignite-softball","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 Drop Close Game to Honeybees in First Trip to Minot - 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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