SUNDAY
APRIL 20
COLLEGE
GAMES
Top
25
Florida International def
Louisiana-Lafayette 2-1, 2-0
Illinois
def
Wisconsin
4-2, 5-4
Michigan
State
8,
Ohio
State
0 (5)
Ohio
State
2,
Michigan
State
0
Iowa
def
Indiana
9-0, 8-0
Oklahoma
State
3,
Nebraska
2 (12)
Georgia
1,
North Carolina
0
Other
Games
UMKC def
Valparaiso
8-0, 6-0
Binghamton
def
Hartford
3-2, 4-2
Minnesota
def Northwestern 3-1, 1-0
Colgate def Army 4-0, 5-2
Wright
State
4,
Loyola
IL
3
Hofstra 7, George Mason 1
Southern Illinois
def
Northern Iowa
11-0, 6-1
Illinois-Chicago 3,
Cleveland
1
Lehigh def Bucknell 5-3, 9-0
(Emily Ling no-hitter in second game)
Game
Notes
Oklahoma
State
staved
off a bases-loaded, one out
Nebraska
threat
in the bottom of the 12th to send the Huskers to their 8th
defeat in 12 one-run games. After
OSU moved ahead 2-1 in the top of the inning,
Nebraska
tied the game at 2-all in the 10th
when Amber Burgess scored from 3rd on a wild pitch.
But, OSU’s Megan Carey hit an rbi double in the top of the 12th,
and
Lauren
Bay
pitched out of the bases-loaded situation in the
bottom half. Bay (20-6) struck out
11, yielding eight hits, to elevate the Cowgirls to 10-3 in the Big 12.
Nebraska
slipped to 8-6 conference.
There was no score until the 4th when OSU catcher Ryan
Realmuto hit the first pitch over the right field fence.
Nicole Trimboli hit a two-out rbi single in the 5th to tie at
1-all. Peaches James took the loss
in relief of Summer Tobias who pitched the first nine innings.
Florida
International recorded 18 hits in its
Sunday sweep of the Ragin Cajuns, in
a key Sun Belt matchup. Sunday
marked the first time ULL has ever lost a conference double-header.
FIU’s Kendra Laminack, Amanda Nealer and Nicole Barrett combined to
strike out 12 Cajuns. FIU improved
to 6-2 in Sun Belt; the Cajuns are 10-2.
Michigan
State
’s Stephanie
Christner held Ohio State to two hits in the 8-0 game, while driving in two of the
Spartan’s runs. Natalie Furrow’s
two-run HR highlighted a five-run 4th inning.
The Buckeyes’ Ashley Cutcliff and Rogeanna Hottinger homered to account
for both runs in the 2-0 game, in which the Spartans stranded nine runners.
Kristi DeVries got the win; Katie Chain the save.
Jessica Beech took the loss.
Minnesota
’s Piper
Marten pitched all 14 innings in the Gophers’ sweep of Northwestern.
The teams were tied for 5th place with
Penn
State
, Big Ten, when Sunday dawned, but, by nightfall,
Minnesota
was 8-6, and the Wildcats were in 7th
place, 7-9. NU scribes now call
freshman Courtnay Foster “the poster child for hard-luck losses.” She gave
up just three hits while notching 7 Ks; on Friday, she lost 4-2 to
Wisconsin
in nine innings while striking out a career high
16.
Illinois
moved
to within a half-game of the Big Ten lead with the sweep of
Wisconsin
, keeping alive its 11-game winning streak.
In the first game, the Illini won their 13th come-from-behind
victory when Jenna Hall hit a two-out walk-off HR in the 7th, after
the Badgers had tied the game with two runs in the top-half.
Wisconsin
had rallied from a 4-2 deficit.
Anastasia Miller, batting for the first time this season, hit a solo HR
to lead off the 7th; with two, Kris Zachner doubled and scored on
Mandy Liles single. The Badgers, who
outhit the Illini 9-5, got the early lead on Emily Friedman’s first career HR.
The Illini built their lead with four runs in the second, starting with
Erin Montgomery’s two-run HR to tie the game at 2-all. Rachelle Corridi and
Erin Jones singled in the other two runs off Big Ten strike-out leader Andrea
Kirchberg. Hall also drove in two
runs in the second game, giving her nine runs for the week.
Wisconsin’s Erin Barnharst hit a 2-run HR to cut the initial Illini
second-game lead to 4-2 but Illinois ace Amanda Fortune came on to save the
game; she was the winning pitcher in the first game.
Iowa
’s Lisa
Birocci hurled a no-hitter in the Hawkeyes’ 8-0 defeat of
Indiana
, while Christina Schmaltz broke a 22-year old
record for triples in game two with her 8th.
Birocci now has eight no-hitters this season.
For the second time this season, Kristin Johnson had two HRs in a game,
this time in game one in which she had 3 rbi.
In game two,
Iowa
scored 7 of its 9 runs in the last two innings,
led by Lindsay Bashor who was 2-4 with a HR and 3 rbi.
Hawaii
triggered
a triple-play in its Saturday sweep of
Tulsa
. The
Wahine were up 2-0 when the Eagles came to bat in the 7th.
Katie Torres led off with a single; Brandi McGuire singled to right;
Danielle Olsen and Ashlea Montgomery were inserted as pinch runners.
Stacey Walkingstick rapped a shot, which was caught by the
second-baseman, Ashley Ruff, who threw to 1st doubling
Montgomery
; Stacey Porter, the first baseman,
then threw to 2nd, picking off Olsen.
Lindsey Bashor
Jenna Hall
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