MANSFIELD, Texas – The Central Missouri Jennies (2-0, 0-0 MIAA) won a pair of games in the opening day of the Lonestar College Classic, defeating the Midwestern State Mustangs (1-1, 0-0 LSC) 2-1, before taking down the St. Edward's Hilltoppers (0-2, 0-0 LSC) by a final score of 8-5 (8 inn.) Friday, Jan. 30, from the Fields at Station 63 Complex in Mansfield, Texas.
The Jens conclude the Lonestar College Classic on Saturday, Jan. 31, taking on the Southern Nazarene Crimson Strom (1-1, 0-0 GAC) at 2:00 p.m., before a matchup with the Missouri-St. Louis Tritons (2-0, 0-0 GLVC) at 4:15 p.m.
Game 1: Central Missouri 2, Midwestern State 1
The Jens opened the scoring in the bottom of the second with a two-out bases-loaded hit-by-pitch RBI from third baseman
Cydney Fullerton that scored senior
Jadyn Sheffield.
The Mustangs tied the game with a run in the fifth, but Central Missouri captured the victory thanks to a walk-off solo blast from junior
Emma McCall.
Jefferson City, Mo. native
Andi Siebeneck (1-0) picked up the win in the circle, allowing just one run on two hits in a complete-game effort as junior Krysten Moran led the Jens offensively, going 2-for-3 in the ballgame.
Game 2: Central Missouri 8, St. Edward's 5 (8 inn.)
After the Hilltoppers took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first, UCM evened the game with a two-out RBI walk from Moran that scored
Anna Lee Kulka.
St. Edward's responded with a pair of runs in the bottom of the second, but their lead was cut in half with a solo shot from
Bailey Brumley in the next half inning.
With the Jens down 5-2, shortstop
Aly Hageman led off the sixth with her first dinger as a Jen, making it a two-run ballgame before Fullerton's RBI double to left center scored
Lexi Blackmon, making it 5-4 SEU.
Central Missouri was down to their final out in the ballgame, but sophomore
Marisa Johnson tied it with a pinch-hit blast to left center field as the game went into extra innings.
The Jens scored three runs in the eighth, beginning with an infield single from Moran, followed by a fielder's choice from
Taylor Thompson, and capped off by an RBI single from Brumley.
Sophomore
Karman Rowe (1-0) earned the victory in the circle after tossing 18 pitches in 1 1/3 innings, allowing just one hit in relief, while Hageman went 3-for-4 pacing UCM offensively in the winning effort.