Softball: SPASH uses big offensive day to win at D.C. Everest in early-season WVC clash.

For many years the Stevens Point softball team dominated the Wisconsin Valley Conference but, in 2025, D.C. Everest took the league crown away en route to the state tournament. In the first game of the 2026 conference season SPASH makes a claim to regain that crown. At Kennedy Park on Tuesday, the Panthers used a 6-run 6th inning to blow the game open and beat the Evergreens 12-4.

Everest had one lead in the game. After SPASH scored a run in the top of the 2nd inning, Everest responded with 2 runs in the bottom of the inning on a two-run homer by Madelyn Hoppe. However, the Panthers would score twice in both the 3rd and 4th innings to take a 5-2 lead before the Evergreens would score on a wild pitch in the bottom of the 5th to make it 5-3. SPASH would explode for six runs to take away any doubt in the 6th. Sophia Abundiz had a two-run single to make it 7-3. Addi Peskie followed with an RBI single as the SPASH lead moved to 8-3. After a run-scoring sacrifice fly by Aubree Itzen, the Panthers' Callie Diekhus put an exclamation point on the inning with a 2-run home run to center.

8 of the 9 Everest batters each had one hit while the only Everest starter who didn't have a hit, Mara Meverden, was walked in three of her four plate appearances. SPASH finished with 14 hits, including three each from Abundiz and Jordan Roth. SPASH is now 2-0 overall and 1-0 in the WVC while Everest falls to 4-2 and 0-1. Everest is back in action on Thursday at Wausau West in a game that will be broadcast live on the Wausau Area Sports YouTube channel starting with the pregame at 4:15 pm and first pitch at 4:30.