Bowling Green State University Athletics
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Texas A&M - Corpus Christi
Falcon Bats Quieted In Saturday Setbacks
March 06, 2004 | Softball
March 6, 2004
Final Stats from TAMU-CC game
Final Stats from SFA game
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The Bowling Green State University softball team struggled at the plate Saturday (March 6), dropping a pair of games in the Bash by the Bay. BGSU lost a 2-0 decision to host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi before falling to Stephen F. Austin by a 5-0 score. Both games were held at Islander Field.
With the losses, the Falcons fall to 3-4 on the young season.
In the opening game, the host Islanders put a pair of runs on the board in the top of the first inning against sophomore Liz Vrabel. Two walks and an RBI single by Jennifer Golden produced a run, and a bases-loaded walk to Christy Cortez plated Katie Evans with what would prove to be the game's final run.
BGSU got only one runner as far as second base in the game. Sophomore Gina Rango led off the second inning with a single, and took second on senior Jenifer Kernahan's sacrifice bunt, But, Rango was stranded there as TAMU-CC hurler Sarah Pauly got a popup and a strikeout.
Singles by freshman Megan McPherson in the third inning and junior Stephanie Finkel in the fifth were the only other offense BG could generate. Pauly got the complete-game win for the Islanders, striking out 11 Falcons without walking a batter.
Vrabel gave up seven hits in her complete-game effort. She struck out five, but issued five walks, including four in the first inning.
In the Falcons' second game of the day, S.F. Austin pushed across a run in the sixth inning, and the Ladyjacks broke the game open with four more runs in the seventh. A Lee Lara double, a walk and a BG error led to the unearned sixth-inning marker.
In the seventh, S.F. Austin got three hits, a walk, and a BG error to lead to four runs. Lara and Crista Hargrove each had two-run doubles in the inning.
Lara had three of the Ladyjacks' six hits, scoring two runs and driving in two runs. For the Falcons, Rango, sophomore Lindsay Heimrich and freshman Jeanine Baca had BGSU's hits.
Two of the Falcons' three hits in the game came in teh first inning, but the Falcons stranded runners at first and third.
Nicole Carter picked up the win with five innings of three-hit fall for the Ladyjacks. Crissy Autry earned a save, throwing a pair of scoreless, hitless innings. Senior Jody Johnson took the loss despite allowing only six hits and three earned runs.
The Falcons will return to Islander Field for three Sunday (March 7) games to complete the Bash by the Bay.
