Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Sophomore Tori Witruk tossed Parkland softball's second no-hitter of the year in game one of the Wednesday doubleheader against the University of Illinois Club Team, as the Cobras swept the two games, 8-0 and 9-6. Camryn Skundberg led the offense with two home runs and 7 RBI in the sweep.

Witruk tossed the second no-hitter in the last two weeks, as the sophomore righthander pitched five innings, allowing just one walk and striking out four. Witruk was a part of the first no-no this season, combining with Kirbie Mendenhall to no-hit Sauk Valley on March 22. Witruk returned in game two to close out the second victory with 2.2 shutout innings with three more strikeouts.

With the combined 7.2 shutout innings, Witruk lowered her season ERA from 3.27 to 2.60 and picked up her fifth win.

Entering today's doubleheader with two home runs and 13 RBI on the season, Camryn Skundberg put together her best day of the season with two homers and seven RBI in the doubleheader. Skundberg hit a pair of three-run homers in both games.

Emma Newton and Summer Johnson joined Skundberg in homering in the doubleheader, Newton hitting her eighth and Johnson her fifth of the season.

Up next, the Cobras travel to Kankakee for a 3 p.m. doubleheader tomorrow, April 4. Parkland remains on the road this weekend, playing at Spoon River on Saturday, April 6, and at Lewis & Clark on Sunday, April 7.

Game 1: Parkland 8, U of I Club 0 (5 inn.)

Tori Witruk tossed Parkland's second no-hitter of the season while Emma Newton and Camryn Skundberg launched home runs in the 8-0 run-rule victory. The Cobras scored four runs in both the first and fifth innings, Newton homering in the first and Skundberg in the fifth.

Improving to 5-1 on the season with her second win in as many days, Witruk faced the minimum in each of her last three frames. Allowing just three baserunners total, two of which reached on errors, Witruk walked just one while striking out four. Witruk also picked up the win yesterday in game one at John Wood.

Backing Witruk's no-no, the Cobras offense were efficient with eight runs on eight hits. The middle of the order provided the power, as designated hitter Camryn Skundberg and right field Emma Newton each homered and drove in six of the eight runs. Bella Coffey joined Newton with two a multi-hit game, doubling twice including a walk-off two-bagger in the fifth.

Putting a four spot on the visitors in the first inning, four of the first five Cobra batters reached base. Left fielder Kate Beckemeyer set the table with a double and scored on an RBI sac fly error on the centerfielder off the bat of Skundberg. Newton then stepped to the plate and made the error hurt with her eighth homer of the year, a two-run bomb to right center. Bella Coffey scored the final run of the frame, doubling and coming in on a Summer Johnson sac fly.

After a quiet turn through the order in innings two through four, the Parkland bats came alive in the fifth. Mackenzie Ruppert got the inning started with a single, and then moved to second on a Beckemeyer walk. With two out, Skundberg cleared the bases with a homer to right. Leading 7-0, back-to-back doubles by Newton and Coffey drove in the game-clinching run.

Game 2: Parkland 9, U of I Club 6

Scoring five times in the third and four in the fourth, the Cobras took game two behind a pair of innings in which they batted around. Starter Kirbie Mendenhall tossed four innings to pick up the victory. After tossing a no-no in game one, Tori Witruk returned to pitch the final 2.2 innings.

Again, paced by a pair of home runs, Camryn Skundberg launched her second three-run homer in the third inning to give Parkland their first lead. Summer Johnson then added her fifth bomb of the season with a two-run shot in the fourth.

Johnson was productive in all four plate appearances, reaching base four times. Falling a triple shy of the cycle, Johnson recorded a single, double and walk to go along with her two-run homer. Maddie Quattro and Kate Beckemeyer reached base three times, combining for five walks.

After being held to a single hit in the first two innings, the Cobras busted out in the third frame by sending 11 batters to the plate. Led off by a Maddie Quattro walk, a Beckemeyer single put two on for a Bri Poehler RBI double to get the Cobras on the board. Still with no one out, Skundberg hit an opposite-field home run to right, her second three-run bomb of the day. After two straight outs, the Cobras strong together a single and four straight walks to plate a fifth run on a Quattro RBI walk.

Three extra-base hits in the next inning paced a four-run frame that retook the lead after Illinois tied the game with a two-run homer in the top half. After a single, walk and double to start the inning, Bella Coffey hit her third double of the day to plate two. Summer Johnson then brought both Coffey and herself home on her fifth bomb of the year, a long home run to left field.  

Leading 9-6, Witruk entered in the top of the fifth with the bases loaded, one run in and only one out. Witruk again dominated the Illinois lineup, allowing just one hit while striking out three.