Morgan Schaben came up huge on Senior Night for the Harlan Cyclones softball team and led them to a 3-0 win over the Atlantic Trojans on Monday night. Schaben was phenomenal in the circle with 10 strikeouts on the night and then led the way at the plate as well driving in all three Cyclone runs.

The Trojans struggled at the plate all night against Schaben and couldn’t generate many chances. Atlantic Head Coach Terry Hinzmann said Schaben was really tough.

The Trojans made a couple of costly errors as well. In the third a poor connection to first base allowed Kate Heithoff to get on base, as Kennedy Goergen couldn’t keep her foot on the bag for the out. Two batters later Schaben drove Heithoff in with an RBI single to put Harlan up 1-0. Then in the 5th Madison Botos misplayed a ball in left field from Tianna Kasperbauer and it dropped off her glove for a double. Heithoff reached on a walk and two batters later Schaben smacked a double into right field to bring home 2 more runs. Coach Hinzmann said those mistakes can’t happen to be successful against good teams.

Harlan improves to 20-5 on the season with the victory. Atlantic falls to 21-6 and get right back after it tomorrow at Lewis Central.

Olivia Engler took the loss for Atlantic in the circle going all 6 innings with 7 strikeouts and 1 walk.