St. Louis – The Maryville softball team smacked 12 hits in the second game of a doubleheader to earn a split with No. 24 ranked Saginaw State University Tuesday evening at Weber Field. The Saints fell in the first game of the day, 6-5 and bounced back with the offensive attack in the night cap to win 8-4 in a game stopped after six innings due to snow.
Game One:
The Cardinals opened the scoring with a run in the second and three runs in the third to take a 4-0 advantage over the Saints. Maryville cut into the lead in the fourth as
Hannah Tolley and
Alyssa Callans opened the frame with back-to-back singles and both scored on a
Jaclyn Pasakarnis drilled a ground rule double to center to get the Saints to within two runs at 4-2. Pasakarnis would score on a
Courtney Ferguson ground out to make the score 4-3. After putting the Cardinals down in order in the top of the fifth,
Shaina Kmetz opened the home half of the inning with a solo blast to knot the game at 4-4. Callans gave the Saints the lead with an RBI single to center field to make the score 5-4, but it did not hold up as the Cardinals scored two runs in the sixth inning to earn the win.
Winning Pitcher: Anna Conard (3-0)
Save: None
Losing Pitcher: Callans (5-2)
Hitting leader: Callans - 2-for-4, RBI, run scored
Pasakarnis – 1-for-3, 2 RBIs, 2B, run scored
Game Two:
Maryville got things going in the bottom of the first as
Hannah Tolley started a string of three straight singles and scored on a
Samantha Hausl single to left to give the Saints a 1-0 lead.
Sheridon Sprague kept the inning alive with a two-run single to extend the Maryville lead to 3-0. After the Cardinals scored a pair of runs in the top of the third, the Saints loaded the bases and extended the lead on a
Courtney Klosinski single to left to give Maryville a 5-2 advantage. Tolley continued to stay hot at the plate with an RBI double in the fourth to extend the Saints lead to 6-3. The Saints scored two more runs in the fifth inning as Tolley and
Emily Frankenreiter each had RBI singles to push the Maryville lead to 8-3. The game was stopped in the top of the seventh as a snow squall hit the area and made the field unplayable.
Winning Pitcher: Sprague (5-1)
Save: None
Losing Pitcher: Hannah Atwell (0-1)
Hitting leaders: Tolley – 3-for-4, 2B, 2 RBIs, run scored
Sprague – 2-for-4, 2 RBIs
Hausl, 2-for-4, RBI, two runs scored
Records:
Maryville – 1-15
Saginaw Valley State – 4-4
Up Next – Maryville opens up Great Lakes Valley Conference play on the road as the Saints take on Southern Indiana Sunday, March 11, in a twin-bill slated to start at noon.
