WARRENSBURG, Mo. (April 16, 2019) - Central Missouri Jennies Softball played their final nonconference game of the season Tuesday afternoon in Warrensburg. The Jennies enjoyed the friendly confines and secured a sweep Truman State to move to 26-16 this season.
Game One - Central Missouri 3, Truman State 2 - 10 Innings
Play-by-Play
• Game one was a classic pitcher's dual. Twice the Bulldogs took the lead, but the Jennies were right there to answer a half inning later.
• TSU started the scoring in the third as a two-out, two-base error put a runner in scoring position. One batter later, a single to center brought in the game's first run.
• The Jens answered with a two-out run of their own.
Hailey Crabtree laced an opposite field double and with two-outs,
Jessica Sader went back up the middle to drive in Crabtree with the tying run.
• That was all the scoring until the sixth. The Bulldogs relied on small-ball to take the lead. The first two batters reached on bunt singles and stolen bases put them both in scoring positions with no outs.
• With one out and two still in scoring position, the Bulldogs dropped down their third bunt of the inning, a squeeze which scored the go-ahead run.
• No sweat for the Jennies as Sader led off the bottom of the inning with a single and moved to second on a bunt.
Alexis Koop's eight-pitch at bat ended with an RBI single to left, tying the score at two.
• It wouldn't be a Jennies game without some extra innings. This one went to 10, helped out by the Jennies defense.
• UCM ended the seventh with a double-play and the eighth with an outfield assist.
• In the 10, the Jennies started the inning with a walk and an infield single. Koop moved the runners up with a bunt putting two in scoring position with one out.
• With the infield in to cut-down the run,
Makenzie McAtee's hard hit ball to second took a big hop and fell into right field as Sader score the game-winning run.
Jennies Stat Leaders
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Jessica Sader was 2-4 with two runs and an RBI.
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Taylor Dames also collected two hits and stole a base.
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Alexis Koop drove in a run and was 2-4.
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Alexa Bradley threw the first nine innings and allowed two runs, one earned on 10 hits.
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Gentry Wishard picked up the win throwing a scoreless 10th.
For the Bulldogs
• Alyssa Hajduk threw 9.1 innings. She allowed all three runs on 10 hits with four strikeouts and three walks.
• Emma Walbert went 3-5 with an RBI.
• Christa Reisinger scored twice and picked up a pair of hits.
• Morgan McMahan was 2-4.
Game Two - Central Missouri 9, Truman State 1
• It took a while for the Jennies bats to get going in game one, but not game two. They scored four in the opening inning, capped off by
Taylor Dames' three-run blast to left center.
• A leadoff home run in the third was the Bulldogs only run of the game.
• The Jens got that run back in the bottom of the inning as
Kaitlyn Markin's two-out RBI single scored Dames, making it 5-1.
• UCM plated three more in the fourth.
Brie Murray led off with a home run. The Jens then got an RBI ground out from
Hailey Crabtree and an infield single from Dames to score
Ashlyn Cook from third.
• Needing one run to end it in the fifth, UCM got the first three on base with consecutive singles. After a force-out at the plate, Crabtree's fly ball to center ended the game as Murray crossed the plate with the game-ending run and a 9-1 win.
Jennies Stat Leaders
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Taylor Dames got a hit in all three at bats going 3-3 with a home run, two runs and five RBI. She also stole two bases.
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Brie Murray was 2-3 with a home run and two runs scored.
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Makenzie McAtee knocked a pair of base hits.
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Lauryn Deer reached base three times with a hit and two walks and scored twice.
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Shelby Clark pitched all five innings giving up one run on seven hits with two strikeouts.
For the Bulldogs
• Lauren Dale started and pitched three innings giving up six runs on seven hits with three strikeouts.
• Alyssa Rivera was 2-2 with a solo home run.
• Lauren Bowman also picked up a pair of hits.
News and Notes
• The last time the Jennies played against Truman State it did not go well, with UCM getting swept without scoring a run.
• Extra innings are nothing new to UCM. They are 6-1 in extra innings this season and have played more than seven innings in six of their last 12 games.
• Big afternoon for
Taylor Dames who was 5-7 with five runs batted in.
• The Jennies got the leadoff runner on base in eight of the 15 innings they came to the plate.
• Despite going 10 innings in game one, Jennies pitchers did not walk or strikeout a single batter.
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Alexa Bradley's nine innings pitched are a new career-high for a single-game.
• Truman State's game one starter, Alyssa Hajduk threw 155 pitches in 9.1 innings.
Up Next
• The Jennies will make up their doubleheaders with Fort Hays State Nebraska-Kearney at home this weekend. They'll take on the Tigers Friday, April 19 at 2 p.m.
