CLERMONT, Fla.- The Slippery Rock University softball team played to a two-game split on Day Four of the National Training Center Tournament in Clermont, Florida.
Slippery Rock picked up an 8-6 win against Wayne State College before falling to the University of Sioux Falls, 2-0. The Rock is now 7-6 overall (3-5 at the NTC Tournament) with four games remaining on the spring break trip.
Senior
Katie Kaiser led the team in the win against Wayne State with two hits, a home run and three RBI, while senior
Ashley Samluk and freshman
Megan Brown had two hits apiece against Sioux Falls in the loss.
Junior
Carly DeRose went the distance against Wayne State to earn her fourth win of the season. She struck out seven, gave up seven hits and walked two. Sophomore
Brooke Dawson earned the save for The Rock after coming in and pitching 1.1 innings.
Dawson took the loss against Sioux Falls after allowing eight hits and walking three.
Game One: Slippery Rock 8, Wayne State 6Slippery Rock got a good jump on the Wildcats in the first inning by scoring four runs and recording five hits. Kaiser, Samluk, senior
Megan Maloney, sophomore
Emily Nagle and senior
Stacey Herzog all recorded hits for The Rock in the opening inning.
SRU had another big inning in the top of the third sparked by junior
Caitlin Baxter's double. Kaiser then cracked her three RBI homer to left field to give The Rock a 7-0 advantage.
Herzog hit an RBI single in the fourth inning that scored Nagle and extended SRU's lead to 8-0.
Wayne State did not go away quietly though. The Wildcats recorded back-to-back three-run innings in the bottom of the fifth and sixth innings.
Nine players recorded 11 hits for The Rock in Game One.
Game Two: Sioux Falls 2, Slippery Rock 0In the second game of Day 4, Sioux Falls plated one run in the top of the first inning and one more in the six. The Cougars also held The Rock scoreless throughout the game. Slippery Rock registered six hits in the loss and left at least two runners on base in three different innings.
In addition to Samluk's and Brown's two-hit performance against the Cougars, sophomores
Lauren Hawley and
Allie Fischer each recorded one hit.
