New Mexico Classic: softball

[sybarite]

Montgomery is ill and back in Norman. Stevens starting. Wodach catching. Playing Creighton now.

3-0 OU after one: loaded bases before a fielder's choice on a Knighten grounder, a single by Wodach, and an error on a ball hit by Clifton.

 

[sybarite]

5-0 after two as Aviu hit her first career HR, left center. Pendley followed with a double, Erin with a single, and Self with a deep sac fly to center.

 

[tycat947]

Kelsey doing well! 5K, 2BB after 2.

 

[sybarite]

7-0 after three. Ended on a wierd double play. Bases loaded. Self hit a line drive off of the pitcher. Erin thought the pitcher caught it and went back to first. The umpire called both runners on first out. Explanation: a 1-3 double play, nothing else.
Chestnut in for Stevens.

They scored four on Chestnut in the fourth. A line out into another double play stops OU in the bottom of the fourth. Curiously, some of the hardest hit balls we have hit have been outs.

 

[sybarite]

9-4 after five.
Walk to Hatfield, singles to Townsend and Aviu bring in the eighth run. SF by Miller brings in the ninth.

Sixth:: Chestnut allows a single, and Stevens comes back in.
11-4 after six as Romero and Wodach single. Clifton tripled to center, out at home trying to stretch it to an inside the park home run.

 

[sybarite]

Final 11-4
NM State in thirty minutes.

 

[rocjunkie]

Thanks Syb and Ty for the updates.

 

[tycat947]

Caleigh seems to have come to play this weekend! 2 run single makes it 2-0 Sooners, with 2 out in top of 2nd.

 

[sybarite]

Caleigh seems to have come to play this weekend! 2 run single makes it 2-0 Sooners, with 2 out in top of 2nd.

3-0 with all runs scored and all rbis by freshmen:

Romero hit by pitch
Knighten on by error
Clifton drives them in
arnold singles her to second
Aviu drives her in.

 

[sybarite]

In the third, we are beginning to see how good these freshmen may be.

Erin fly out to left
Self reaches on error by shortstop
Romero doubled to right center
Knighten singled both home, now 5-0 with all rbis by freshmen.
Steals second
Wodach pops to second
Clifton walked
Arnold singled to short, knighten scored (first rbi by non-freshman). 6-0
aviu flies out to right.

 

[sybarite]

NM State hit a leadoff HR in the third to make it 6-1.

BUT:
Pendley walked
Erin reached on an error by the pitcher on a sacrifice bunt
Self singled to right (an rbi without a freshman) to score Pendley, Erin to third.
Romero hits a sacrifice fly to left, Erin scored, Self to second
Knighten hits a home run to left. After hitting a foul HR on two previous at bats today, she hits one fair. 10-1. Knighten has four rbis in this game
Hatfield reaches on an error by the second baseman, now at second, rolls to wall,
Clifton walks
Arnold bunts, but it hits her, she was too far out of the box and was hit by pitch
Aviu singles to left, Hatfield to third, Clifton to third.
Pendley flied to left

 

[sybarite]

Knighten doubled home a run in the fifth for her fifth rbi.

Paige still in the game.

Run-ruled NMState in five, 11-1

 

[sybarite]

After seven games:

Averages:

Montgomery 444
Arnold 429
Miller 421
Knighten 385
Romero 381
Wodach 350
Aviu 350
Nirschl 333 (1-3)
Clifton 307

Home runs
Miller 2
Aviu, Montgomery, Knighten 1

Triples
Miller, Clifton 2

Doubles
Romero 3
Pendley, Self, Clifton, Miller, Wodach, Lundberg, Knighten 1

RBIs
Miller 7
Self, Knighten 6
Romero, Clifton 5

 

[sybarite]

New Mexico State 6-1 (only loss to OU)
Creighton 2-5 (lost to OU, but close losses to Tennessee, Ca Northridge, Cal Riverside, BYU, wins over Boise State and Campbell)
Western Michigan 1-1 (loss to NM State)

 

[sybarite]

OU run-ruled Western Michigan, 12-0 in five. Finney got the start and the wi. She pitched 3.2 innings of three hit ball with no walks. She struck out five and threw 46 pitches, 33 for strikes. She left with nobody on and two outs in the third Chestnut allowed a walk and double in the fifth, but no runs.

There were too many hitting stars to mention. Knighten got another HR.

 

[sybarite]

Paige and OU run-ruled New Mexico State in six, 8-0. Paige threw a four-hitter with seven strikeouts to one walk. Of 83 pitches, 55 were strikes.

Wodach hit her first HR of the year to lead off the sixth, making it 4-0. OU added four more in the top of the sixth, two on a triple by Romero, her third.