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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Bowling Green State University
TOLEDO
Softball Opens MAC Play With 7-1 Win
March 27, 2001 | Softball
March 27, 2001
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - A six-run second inning lifted the Bowling Green State University softball team to a 7-1 win over the arch-rival University of Toledo Tuesday (March 27) afternoon. The game, the first half of a Mid-American Conference doubleheader, was played at the BGSU Softball Field.
The win moved the Falcons' record to 11-10 overall and 1-0 in MAC play, while the Rockets dropped to 10-8 and 0-1, respectively.
UT had the first scoring threat of the game, with back-to-back-to-back singles in the top of the first inning off BG starter Jessie Milosek. On the third single, which came off the bat of Laurie Nagel, Falcon centerfielder Jen Domschot gunned down UT's Kalika Stavroulakis at the plate. Milosek then struck out the next batter to end the inning.
Toledo did get on the board in the second, as Danielle D'Amore doubled to score Tracy Riepenhoff. The Rockets had five of their eight hits in the first two frames.
BGSU answered in a big way, with six runs on six hits in the bottom of the second. Senior Angie Domschot reached on a UT error to lead off the inning, winding up on second base. From there, she scored on a single by classmate Lynsey Ebel. The next batter, sophomore Libby Voshell, singled, and Milosek walked to load the bases.
Junior Holly Frantz grounded out, but Ebel scored to give BGSU the lead for good. Then, senior Nikki Rouhana singled to score Voshell, and freshman Jenifer Kernahan's single plated pinch-runner Kandice Machain. Jen Domschot's single, the fifth hit of the inning, brought Rouhana around to score, and Kernahan scored on Angie Domschot's hit. BG sent 11 batters to the plate in that inning.
From there, the Falcons held the lead at five until the sixth. BG freshman pitcher Jody Johnson came on in the fifth inning, and the Rockets responded by loading the bases with no outs. Johnson went to a full count on the next hitter, Jenny Schaaf, but got the strikeout. Then, she got the next batter to hit a soft liner to Voshell at short, and the next batter popped up to second to end the threat.
In the sixth, Rouhana had a one-out triple past a diving Rocket centerfielder, and she scored on a Kernahan single.
BGSU outhit the Rockets by a 10-8 count, with the top three hitters in the Falcon order -- Rouhana, Kernahan and Jen Domschot -- getting two hits apiece. Rouhana scored two runs on the day, while Kernahan was the lone Falcon with two RBI.
UT got two-hit games from Stavroulakis and D'Amore.
BGSU's Milosek got the win, surrendering one run on five hits in her four innings of work. Johnson threw three innings of shutout relief, allowing three hits while walking one and striking out two.
Colette McMasters took the loss for the Rockets, allowing seven hits and six runs (four earned) in two innings. Cortney Winslow allowed one run and three hits in four innings.
The teams were scheduled to return to action for Tuesday's second game.
