No. 10 Lady Muleriders split final day at the 6-State Classic in Emporia, Kansas
February 18, 2018
EMPORIA, Kansas – The Lady Mulerider softball team split the final day of the 6-State Classic in Emporia, Kansas after a run-rule victory in five innings to Concordia St. Paul in game one, 10-1, and a loss in game two, 3-4, to Emporia State that saw the Hornets secure the late walk-off win in the bottom of the seventh.
HOW IT HAPPENED- GAME ONE
• SAU got on the board quickly as they put up four runs on three hits in the bottom of the first inning to take a 4-0 lead.
• Jill Roye plated the first run of that frame with an RBI single and, later, Faith Otts stroked a 2-out base-clearing double to center field that plated three runners to make it 4-0.
• In the second inning, SAU scored six runs on six hits to put the run-rule in affect and extend their lead to, 10-0.
• Rachel Miller reached on a bunt single to start things off in that frame and Sarah Pitre was issued a walk after that would bring Brooke Goad to the plate where she would blast a 3-run homer to make it, 7-0.
• Shortly after, Marina Duran, Monica Islava, and Otts each plated the fourth, fifth, and sixth RBI, respectively, to lead 10-0 at the end of that frame.
• Concordia- St. Paul scattered three hits in the fourth inning where they would put up a single run in that frame to refrain from the shutout, but SAU was able to secure the run-rule victory in the fifth, 10-1.
HOW IT HAPPENED- GAME TWO
• Goad connected with her fourth homerun of the weekend in the top of the first inning that saw the Lady Muleriders grab the early lead, 1-0.
• Emporia State tied the contest in the bottom of that frame after scoring on a passed ball and neither teams would score again until the fifth where Duran blasted a solo bomb to give SAU the go-ahead run, 2-1.
• Emporia quickly answered in the bottom of that frame as they plated a pair of runs on a pair of hits, aided by two errors, to take the lead from SAU, 3-2.
• The Lady Muleriders made it a tie ballgame in the top of the sixth courtesy of Roye's RBI single that plated pinch hitter Hallie Saintigna, who drew a four-pitch walk to lead off the inning, but Emporia State eventually secured the walk-off win in the bottom of the seventh on a bases-loaded fielding error that plated the go-ahead run, 4-3.
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