Season StatsBOLIVAR, Mo. - Central Missouri softball completed their home-and-home with Southwest Baptist by sweeping the Bearcats in Bolivar. UCM won a pair of low-scoring affairs, 3-2 and 5-3 to up their record to 23-9. Yesterday's doubleheader was the only one that counted toward the conference standings, so the Jennies remain 5-1 in the MIAA.
Game One: UCM 3, SBU 2UCM opened the scoring in the top of the third when
Madison Hood cranked her first career home run to right center, a solo shot putting the Jens up 1-0.
The lead lasted until the fourth, when the Bearcats matched the Jennies in home runs, but doubled up on runs taking the lead on a two-run homer from Caitlyn Cooner.
Katie Shockley kept the Jens in the game, by throwing scoreless frames in the fifth and sixth, but the Jennies offense couldn't get the tying run across the plate.
In the seventh, Hood led off with a single and the Jennies put the go-ahead run on base with nobody out. SBU retired two, bringing up
Lindsey Dawson with two on and two out. Dawson lifted a double to center, scoring
Keelia Martin and
Ali Jo Rogers, giving the Jennies a 3-2 lead.
Shockley shut the door in the seventh to complete the comeback. Shockley picked up her eighth win and fourth in her last four starts. She threw a complete game allowing two runs and just three hits. She also struck out four and walked one.
Hood collected three of the Jennies' eight hits going 3-for-3 with a home run and RBI. The Jennies stole three bases in the game, one each from Rogers,
Carlie Rose and
Austin Eickleberry.
Game Two: UCM 5, SBU 3The Jennies took a lead in the first inning and never trailed on their way to a 5-3 win and sweep of the Bearcats. Rogers led off the game with a single, stole second, moved to third on a fly out and scored on an SBU error.
UCM scored two more in the third. Rogers got the first one of the inning, scoring on
Lauren Mabe's sacrifice fly. With two outs, Rose doubled home Dawson, putting the Jennies up 3-0.
In the circle for UCM,
Allison Tonyan saw her first action of 2015. The junior transfer threw the first four innings, allowing two runs on four hits with two strikeouts to earn her first win in a UCM uniform.
The Bearcats got to within one, scoring two in the fourth on a two-RBI single.
The Jennies pushed the lead back to three, scoring two in the fifth inning on back-to-back RBI singles from Rose and Hood.
SBU picked up another run in the sixth, but that was all the scoring as
Jessica Wilkes came on in relief to seal the victory. Wilkes threw three innings allowing one run on one hit with three strikeouts.
Four Jennies picked up multiple hits as they collected 12 as a team. Rose was 3-for-4 with two RBI and a stolen base and Rogers had two hits in four at bats with two runs scored and a stolen bag.
The Jennies return to the diamond Wednesday, April 1 for a road tilt with Missouri Southern. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m.
