Cowgirls Swept By Texas Lutheran In Double-Header
By: Eric Boynton
Updated: March 9, 2013
SEGUIN, Texas - Hardin-Simmons' softball dropped an American Southwest Conference doubleheader
at Texas Lutheran on Saturday afternoon at Morck Field in Seguin, losing 9-1 in
five innings in the first game before falling 7-6 in eight innings in the
nightcap.
Game
1
Texas Lutheran took a
1-0 lead in the first inning on a Jennifer Gallagher RBI single and made in 4-0
with three more runs in the third inning. Gallagher, Maegen Taylor and Molly
Gorrie all had RBI singles.
HSU scored its run in
the fourth inning on an RBI single by Julia Bradley.
TLU added two runs in
the fourth on RBIs by Gallagher and Taylor Yancey and put the run rule in effect
with three runs in the fifth. Brittany Upton and Ashley Jacobsen had RBI single
for the Bulldogs.
Brittany Acosta
allowed eight earned runs on 12 hits in four and one-third innings to take the
loss in the circle. Five different Cowgirls had one hit each.
Katelyn Sanders went
the distance for TLU to improve to 4-2. She scattered five hits and allowed one
run.
Game
2
In the nightcap the
game was scoreless until the fourth when the Cowgirls scored on a Carley Willis
RBI groundout.
HSU took the lead out
to 5-0 with four runs in the fifth inning. Mac Clay had a two-run single in the
inning, Sydnie Darden had an RBI fielder's choice and added another run on a TLU
error.
The Bulldogs responded
with four runs in the fifth and tied the game in the bottom of the seventh
inning on an RBI fielder's choice by Yancey.
HSU took the lead at
6-5 in the eighth inning on an RBI groundout by Kara LeLeux. The Bulldogs won
the game in the bottom of the eighth with a pair of runs on four hits. Gallagher
had the game winner on a RBI single to center.
Carol Swindell started
for the Cowgirls and worked five innings allowing just one earned runs. Acosta
relieved her in the sixth and took the loss to fall to 1-7.
Megan Carmichael went
seven and one-third innings for TLU allowing six runs (three earned). Elyse
Hlavinka came on and recorded the final two outs of the eighth to earn the win.
Clay had three hits to
pace the Cowgirls and Jacobsen had four hits for TLU.
HSU is now 2-13-1 on
the year and 0-4 in lead play and TLU improve to 9-5 overall and 4-0 in ASC
action. HSU returns home next weekend to play Sul Ross State in a four-game
set.
