Marshall University Athletics
Softball Makes It Two Against Broncos
4/6/2005 12:00:00 AM | Softball
Softball Makes It Two Against Broncos
4/6/2005
- Box Score
KALAMAZOO, Mich. ? The Marshall softball team got hot in the late frames of game two, compiling five runs on six hits in the final two innings, as MU was able to slip out of Michigan with its seventh Mid-American Conference win, defeating Western Michigan, 5-0, at Ebert Field on Wednesday.
Both teams could only muster one hit through five innings and there was very little action on the base path until the sixth frame when Dee Tourville (Rescue, Calif.) got on via an error on the Bronco second baseman and back-to-back singles by Amanda and Jessica Williams (Powder Springs, Ga.) loaded the bases for the meat of the lineup. Rachel Folden (Baldwin Park, Calif.) had a fielder?s choice at third which put Tourville out at home. Leigh Wintter (Acworth, Ga.) then smacked a sacrifice fly to center to give Marshall (22-12, 7-1) its first run, scoring A. Williams. Gina Guzzo (Virginia Beach, Va.), the reigning MAC East Player of the Week, then drove a RBI double to center for the 2-0 lead.
Western Michigan (9-16, 4-3) would make the Herd work defensively in the bottom of the same inning when Danielle Daughtry got on off a walk and a fielder?s choice, strikeout and error later, starting pitcher Abigail Harter (Monmouth, Ore.) would see herself in a bases loaded one-out jam. The Herd would come up big the next play, picking up the double play to end the inning and get out of the brewing trouble.
Courtney Kacenga (Sierra Vista, Ariz.) singled and Dee Tourville (Rescue, Calif.) doubled to put two runners in scoring position for A. Williams in the seventh. A. Willliams then launched a two-RBI double off the leftfield fence for two more Herd runs and a four-score cushion. After an A. Williams stolen base, J. Williams brought home her twin with a sacrifice fly to deep center for a 5-0 lead.
Harter tossed the complete game one-hitter for the Herd and moves to 8-4 in 2005. Kyla Sullivan took the loss for the Broncos.
Marshall will take its MAC East-leading record to Miami (Ohio) this weekend for a match-up of one vs. two in the division.
