Eastern Michigan Athletics
Sunday, May 1
Mount Pleasant, Mich.
1 p.m.
Eastern Michigan University
3
at
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Central Michigan
Softball Splits Road Series With Central Michigan
5/1/2011 3:22:35 PM | Softball
The Eagles suffer an eight-run setback to the Chippewas to fall to 9-7 in Mid-American Conference play
Box Score.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) — The Eastern Michigan University softball team suffered an 11-3 setback to Central Michigan University this afternoon, May 1, as the Eagles drop to 9-7 in Mid-American Conference play and 23-13 overall.
Lauren Wells (Lowell, Ind.-Lowell) is issued the loss and falls to 7-4 on the season. The southpaw went three innings, striking out two while surrendering two earned runs.
CMU's Kara Dornbos gets the win and improves to 11-10 on the year.
Jessica Richards (Canton, Ohio- Jackson) paced the Eagles offensively with a two-hit effort at the dish and scored one run for the Green and White. The junior also swiped two bases to give her 18 on the season. Her 18 steals moves her into seventh place all-time for the single season EMU softball record books.
Courtney Nicholson (Navarre, Ohio-Central Canton Catholic) also posted a multi-hit performance with two singles in the seventh spot.
Richards kick-started the Eagles' offense in the first, slapping a single to center field to put the leadoff runner on and eventually made her way around to third after swiping two bases.
Despite her efforts, the Green and White fell short, stranding Richards 60 feet from the go-ahead run, but would successfully convert in the following inning.
Kayla Kostich (Taylor, Mich.-Cabrini) entered the second with a one-out walk and advanced to second base on Nicholson's single through the right side.
Lindsay Smith (Seville, Ohio-Cloverleaf) did some damage in the following at bat, plating Kostich from second base on a bloop-single that floated into shallow right-center field to give the Eagles an early 1-0 lead.
CMU made threatened in the bottom of the second with back-to-back singles, but a heads up defensive play would end the inning.
Central Michigan's Molly Coldren drilled an infield single and was followed by Amanda Klosterman's hit to left. With runners at first and second, Richards snagged a rope off the bat of Summer Knoop and doubled up Coldren at second base to end the inning.
The Chippewas took advantage of EMU errors to plate two runs in the third and take their first lead of the game.
Ashley Gilson led off with a solo shot to center field for CMU's first run of the contest.
With two outs, Brittini Merchant reached first safely by an errant EMU throw and advanced to second after the ball wandered out of play. She would score on the following at bat with Amanda Patrick's single through the right side to put the Chippewas up, 2-1.
EMU responded in the fourth inning, using two two-out hits and a CMU error to tie the game at two apiece.
Kostich reached base on a booted ground ball to second base and made it all the around to third on Nicholson's single that snuck between three CMU players in center field. Lauren Delapaz (Plymouth, Mich.-Canton) then punched a timely two-out RBI single to left, knotting the score at two all.
In the fourth, the Chippewas offense tallied nine runs on five hits and an Eagle miscue to take an 11-2 lead in the bottom of the fourth.
With the impending run rule before them, the Eagles needed two runs to stay alive and force the game to continue on into the sixth inning.
Back-to-back doubles by Richards and Stacie Skodinski (South Bend, Ind.-Washington) plated one for the Green and White to cut the deficit to eight, but CMU managed to escape with a the 11-3 victory.
EMU will continue its road swing through the state with midweek matchups against BigTen members Michigan and Michigan State before hosting Buffalo on Friday, May 6 at Varsity Field. The May 3 meeting with the Wolverines is slated for a 6 p.m. start.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) — The Eastern Michigan University softball team suffered an 11-3 setback to Central Michigan University this afternoon, May 1, as the Eagles drop to 9-7 in Mid-American Conference play and 23-13 overall.
Lauren Wells (Lowell, Ind.-Lowell) is issued the loss and falls to 7-4 on the season. The southpaw went three innings, striking out two while surrendering two earned runs.
CMU's Kara Dornbos gets the win and improves to 11-10 on the year.
Jessica Richards (Canton, Ohio- Jackson) paced the Eagles offensively with a two-hit effort at the dish and scored one run for the Green and White. The junior also swiped two bases to give her 18 on the season. Her 18 steals moves her into seventh place all-time for the single season EMU softball record books.
Courtney Nicholson (Navarre, Ohio-Central Canton Catholic) also posted a multi-hit performance with two singles in the seventh spot.
Richards kick-started the Eagles' offense in the first, slapping a single to center field to put the leadoff runner on and eventually made her way around to third after swiping two bases.
Despite her efforts, the Green and White fell short, stranding Richards 60 feet from the go-ahead run, but would successfully convert in the following inning.
Kayla Kostich (Taylor, Mich.-Cabrini) entered the second with a one-out walk and advanced to second base on Nicholson's single through the right side.
Lindsay Smith (Seville, Ohio-Cloverleaf) did some damage in the following at bat, plating Kostich from second base on a bloop-single that floated into shallow right-center field to give the Eagles an early 1-0 lead.
CMU made threatened in the bottom of the second with back-to-back singles, but a heads up defensive play would end the inning.
Central Michigan's Molly Coldren drilled an infield single and was followed by Amanda Klosterman's hit to left. With runners at first and second, Richards snagged a rope off the bat of Summer Knoop and doubled up Coldren at second base to end the inning.
The Chippewas took advantage of EMU errors to plate two runs in the third and take their first lead of the game.
Ashley Gilson led off with a solo shot to center field for CMU's first run of the contest.
With two outs, Brittini Merchant reached first safely by an errant EMU throw and advanced to second after the ball wandered out of play. She would score on the following at bat with Amanda Patrick's single through the right side to put the Chippewas up, 2-1.
EMU responded in the fourth inning, using two two-out hits and a CMU error to tie the game at two apiece.
Kostich reached base on a booted ground ball to second base and made it all the around to third on Nicholson's single that snuck between three CMU players in center field. Lauren Delapaz (Plymouth, Mich.-Canton) then punched a timely two-out RBI single to left, knotting the score at two all.
In the fourth, the Chippewas offense tallied nine runs on five hits and an Eagle miscue to take an 11-2 lead in the bottom of the fourth.
With the impending run rule before them, the Eagles needed two runs to stay alive and force the game to continue on into the sixth inning.
Back-to-back doubles by Richards and Stacie Skodinski (South Bend, Ind.-Washington) plated one for the Green and White to cut the deficit to eight, but CMU managed to escape with a the 11-3 victory.
EMU will continue its road swing through the state with midweek matchups against BigTen members Michigan and Michigan State before hosting Buffalo on Friday, May 6 at Varsity Field. The May 3 meeting with the Wolverines is slated for a 6 p.m. start.
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