Wheaton Warrenville South 3, Glenbard North 2

The softball gods finally smiled on Wheaton Warrenville South.

The Tigers, snakebit in losing their first two DuPage Valley Conference games by a run, saw the tables turn on Friday in Wheaton.

Jess Wasser's seeing-eye single between three Glenbard North fielders in short right field gave WW South a 3-2 win in 10 innings.

"We've been in all of our losses," WW South coach Denise McCance said. "We felt like we were going to be due pretty soon."

Brianna Wolf singled to lead off the bottom of the 10th, and Meaghan Sullivan was hit on a 3-2 pitch. Two outs later Wasser dropped a perfectly placed hit in back of first base to score Sullivan.

"I had faith in myself," Wasser said, "and got up there and told myself I was going to hit it, and I did."

Going extra innings is nothing new to WW South (7-7, 1-2). The Tigers beat York 2-1 in eight innings on Thursday and lost to West Aurora 3-2 in nine the day before.

On the flip side all five of Glenbard North's losses have come by 1 run, including a 2-1, 12-inning defeat to Naperville Central on Wednesday.

"We're right there every time," Panthers coach Josh Sanew said. "We're just in sort of a funk right now."

The Panthers (6-5, 1-2) were an out away from the win Friday, after Hannah Santora doubled in Bri DiGioia to go ahead 2-1 in the top of the seventh.

But with two outs in the bottom of the inning, Sullivan blooped a single just over shortstop Jenny Nelson's glove to score Gina Ravanesi with the tying run.

"Hannah had been pitching me inside all day," Sullivan said, "and I made an adjustment on that at bat."

"We expect her to come through," McCance said.

Ravanesi's line-drive single in the second scored Katy Frey with the game's first run. Nelson tied it in the fourth with an opposite-field home run to left.

Winning pitcher Virginia McAndrews (4-5) struck out six, as did Santora (6-2) for Glenbard North. Santora, in particular, was backed up by sparkling defense.

Third baseman Alyssa Jasinski made a lunging grab of a pop up in the first, speared a liner in the third and made a diving grab of a popped-up bunt in the ninth, doubling off a runner at first with a throw from her knees. Nelson also ran down a pop up in left with her back to home plate.

"It's a matter of swinging the bats," said Sanew, whose team has squeezed across just 4 runs over the last three games. "We've getting tons of people on base, but we're not getting the big hits."