Stephen F. Austin
McNeese St
SFA Loses 2-1 and 2-0
3/31/2001 12:00:00 AM | Softball
March 31, 2001
The Stephen F. Austin Ladyjack softball team dropped both ends of Saturday's Southland Conference doubleheader to the McNeese State Cowgirls, in Nacogdoches. McNeese State won game one, 2-1 in eight innings, and came back to take a 2-0 decision from SFA in the nightcap. With the losses, SFA falls to 14-19 overall and 7-10 in Southland Conference play. McNeese State improves to 13-21 overall and 6-7 in league play. The Cowgirls have now moved past the Ladyjacks into sixth place in the SLC standings.
The Ladyjack bats were silent again Saturday as Cowgirl pitching limited SFA to only one run in fourteen innings, yielding only six hits on the afternoon.
Kym Kling (2-6) took the loss for SFA in game one in spite of allowing only one run through seven innings of work. With the scored tied at one at the end of the seventh, the teams went to extra innings to decide it. McNeese State struck in the top of the eighth when the number eight hitter in the lineup laced a liner to left. Sascha Taylor could not make the play and the Cowgirls had a runner in scoring position with none out. Following a ground out to the mound that moved the runner to third, Jaime Manuel singled home what would prove to be the winning run.
In the bottom of the eighth, SFA loaded the bases with no one out, but could not manage to get a run across. The 2-3-4 hitters in the Ladyjack lineup could not force in the tying run and the Ladyjacks fell, 2-1.
Corrie Hale shutout SFA in game two, allowing only two hits and striking out four in the complete game shutout. Morgan Tolleson (5-6) scattered six hits in taking the loss.
The teams wrap up the three game series Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. at the Coy Simms Softball Complex in Nacogdoches.
