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Softball Completes Sweep Of Detroit, 8-6
April 05, 2000 | Softball
April 5, 2000
DETROIT, Mich. - The Falcons scored eight times in the game's last three innings, and held off a late Detroit rally for an 8-6 win in the Motor City Wednesday (April 5). The win completed a sweep of the non-conference doubleheader for the Falcons at the Titan Softball Field.
Sophomore Rebekah Tipton got the win for the Falcons, who are 17-8 on the season. Tipton, after surrendering a run in the first inning, settled down. She gave up three hits in four innings to move her record to 3-0 on the season.
After the UDM first-inning run, neither team scored until the fourth. The Falcons' Colleen Bates led off the inning, and the senior crushed a line-drive homer to left. BG added another run when senior Erin Zwinck reached on a Titan error and later scored on a Lynsey Ebel bloop single down the right-field line.
The Falcons extended the lead to 6-1 in the fifth. After a two-out UDM error loaded the bases, juniors Nikki Rouhana and Ebel hit back-to-back two-run doubles.
Then, after the hosts strung together four straight hits for two runs off sophomore Andrea Genter in the fifth, BG got those runs back in the top of the sixth. Pinch-hitter Crystal Wilson came to bat with two outs, and laced a two-run double to the base of the fence in left-center. Seniors Carmen Hitterdal and Bates scored on the hit.
Those runs would prove to be important when UDM scored three times in the bottom of the sixth. The Titans capitalized on two BG errors to start the half-inning, and scored three unearned runs off Genter. But, freshman McKenna Houle entered the game and slammed the door on the Titans. Houle, who came on with the bases loaded and one out, struck out UDM's Dayna Rodrigues and induced Laura Gignac to hit a game-ending grounder to third.
The contest was called after six innings due to darkness.
The Falcons outhit the Titans (now 8-7) by a 10-9 margin. Angie Domschot, Hitterdal and Ebel each had two hits, and Ebel drove in three runs in the win. BG's three seniors -- Bates, Hitterdal and Zwinck -- each scored two runs, while Wilson and Rouhana knocked in two.
BG has now hit nine homers this season, the second-highest seasonal total in school history. Last year's team set the record with 19 round-trippers.
The blast by Bates was the eighth of her BGSU career, tying the school's career record. She joins Kathy Fisher (1983-86) and Sandy Krebs (1983-86) at the top of that list. Ebel is one of three players with seven career homers after hitting a round-tripper in the first game at UDM.
BGSU returns to Mid-American Conference action this weekend, with a Friday (April 7) doubleheader at arch-rival Toledo. Start time for that twinbill is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. On Saturday (April 8), the Brown and Orange will play at Ball State in a double-dip scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. local time (2:00 p.m. BG time).
