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Softball Falls At Marshall In Game One, 4-3
April 29, 2000 | Softball
April 29, 2000
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Vanessa Clarkson's seventh-inning single drove home Nichole Corrigan, giving Marshall a 4-3 win over the Bowling Green softball team Saturday (April 29). The game, the first half of a Mid-American Conference doubleheader, was held at Dot Hicks Field in Huntington, W. Va.
MU's Sara Gulla got the win with a scoreless inning of relief. She came on with a BGSU runner on first base in the top of the seventh and retired the next three batters.
BG freshman McKenna Houle took the loss in relief, dropping to 9-5 on the year. Houle, who earned a 10-inning, complete-game win Friday, allowed just one run in three and two-thirds innings of action Saturday. She surrendered four hits, did not walk a batter and struck out two.
Marshall grabbed a 1-0 lead in the second inning. Starting pitcher Tasha Johnson doubled off BG starter Jessie Milosek. Johnson took third on a sacrifice bunt and scored on a sac fly by Kelli Hall.
BG's three runs came in the third. Freshman Libby Voshell led off with a double, and junior Jen Domschot laid down a bunt. MU attempted to cut down Voshell at third, but she beat the throw to put runners at first and third. One out later, Domschot stole second and senior Carmen Hitterdal drew a walk to load the bases. Johnson induced senior Colleen Bates to pop up for the second out, but sophomore Renee Rosemeier came through. Rosemeier's three-run double to left-center field cleared the bases.
The third-inning doubles by Voshell and Rosemeier proved to be BG's only hits of the game.
The Thundering Herd got a run back in the bottom of the third. Corrigan led off with a triple, one of her two hits in the game, and scored on Clarkson's one-out single. Clarkson was 4-for-4 at the plate in the contest.
In the fourth, MU's Karri Britt led off with a double, chasing Milosek. Hall greeted Houle with a bloop double to plate Britt and tie the game. Neither team scored again until the seventh.
The win was Marshall's first in nine all-time series meetings vs. the Falcons. The Herd outhit BG, 9-2, in the contest.
