Friday, February 29, 2008

Texas Woman’s softball swept in doubleheader by Southeastern Oklahoma State

By Pegasus News wire

A superb pitching effort and a dramatic offensive rally carried the Southeastern Oklahoma State University Savage Storm to a doubleheader sweep of the Texas Woman’s University Pioneers on Thursday afternoon in Durant, Oklahoma.

SOSU senior pitcher Marjorie Johnson threw a complete game no-hitter and struck out 14 TWU hitters to lead the Savage Storm to an 8-2 win in the first game of the day. The Pioneers scored their only runs of the game in the top of the fourth inning thanks to a walk and two errors. SOSU fared much better at the plate than TWU, collecting 13 hits and scoring eight earned runs off of the Pioneers’ starting pitcher, junior Ashley Martin. Senior second baseman Lesley Boyd picked up the biggest hit of the game for SOSU, smacking a two-run double in the bottom of the third inning that gave the Savage Storm a 3-0 lead they would never relinquish.

In the second game of the day, SOSU scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to grab a come-from-behind 3-2 victory over TWU. The Savage Storm rally in the final inning began with two walks. After a single by SOSU junior first baseman Benita Sanchez tied the game at two, the winning run came across the plate when an RBI groundout by senior outfielder Ashley Graham sent Savage Storm utility infielder Kristi Goins in to score. The late game heroics by the home team spoiled a strong pitching effort from the Pioneers’ Allie Packer. A sophomore from Grapevine, Texas, Packer scattered ten hits and allowed just one earned run in her first six innings pitched. Senior third baseman Meagan Peiser (pictured) also had a solid game in the defeat for TWU, tallying two hits, including her first home run of the season, a solo shot in the top of the fourth. Johnson came out of the SOSU bullpen in the top of the sixth and allowed just one hit in two innings of relief work to pick up her second win of the day.

SOSU improves to 18-3 on the season with the two wins. The two losses sets the Pioneers’ season record at 6-15.

TWU will return to the diamond again on Friday, February 29, when they open Lone Star Conference South Division play with a 7:00 p.m. home game at Pioneer Field versus West Texas A&M University.

Source: TWU

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