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11
PIONEERS SPLIT WITH JAVELINAS
TO OPEN CONFERENCE PLAY
 KINGSVILLE,
Texas – The Texas Woman’s University
softball team split with Texas A&M-Kingsville in the first
Lone Star Conference games for each team this season.
The Pioneers (11-6, 1-1) dropped game one, 0-3, and won game two, 2-0, against
the Javelinas (20-8, 1-1).
“I think in the first game we had the opportunity to win. They left lots
of runners on base but we could not hit,” head coach Dianne Baker said. “We
were not on all cylinders or playing at a level to win. Amanda (Chambless) pitched
a heck of a ball game, unfortunately we could not hit. I give their pitcher (Jennifer
Demay) credit for keeping us off-balance.”
Demay not only kept the Pioneers off the scoreboard but she didn’t allow
any hits while striking out nine. For TWU, leadoff batter Rachel Townsend was
the only one to reach base as she was hit by a pitch in the first inning. Chambless
(4-2) didn’t give up a run until the sixth inning when TAMUK put three
across the plate. She finished with five strikeouts and allowed 12 hits.
TWU got on the board first in game two when Rhonda Sherman and Sarah White
each scored. Sherman led off with a single and advanced to third when the Javelinas
made an error on White’s bunt. Chelsea Reilly plated Sherman and advanced
White to third with a single to centerfield. Stefani Easter plated White with
a sacrifice fly.
That was all the run support TWU starter Lindsy Russ-Keller (7-4) would need
as she scattered six Javelina hits and struck out eight.
“In the second game we played more like ourselves and jumped on them quickly.
The defense and pitching were solid,” Baker added.
The teams wrap up the four-game series with a doubleheader March 12 beginning
at 1:00 p.m. in Kingsville, Texas.
Photo Courtesy of Derek Smolik, Texas A&M-Kingsville
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