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DURHAM, N.C. –
The No. 25 Lock Haven
University softball team (5-1) suffered their first loss
of the season, but bounced back to earn a split with North
Carolina Central University (2-8) today, 4-3, 4-0. Junior
Jeanette
Middlestead (Downingtown,
Pa./La Salle University)
threw a no-hit shutout in game two, striking out eight.
In game one, the Lady
Eagles knotted the game with two runs in the top of the
sixth. Shortstop
Courtney Hughes’s
(Schwenksville,Pa./Souderton)
double plated
both runs, and gives her 11 RBI on the season.
Neither team reached the
scoring column, forcing extra innings. An NCCU error
allowed Lock Haven the go-ahead run in the form of
leftfielder
Ashley Barber (Rockford,
Md./Richard Montgomery).
With one
out in the bottom of the eighth, NCCU’s Asha Sutton
tripled home two runs to get the walk-off win.
Junior
Shona M. Guevara
(Chino Hills, Calif./Humboldt State University) took
the loss, dropping to 2-1. North Carolina Central’s
Clarisse Steans improved to 2-7 with the win.
Game two was the marquee
game of the day, with Middlestead hurling the first
no-hitter for LHU since
Stephanie Kinch
(Painesville,
Ohio/Riverside)
did it in a five-inning
7-0 win over Holy
Family University
April 21, 2004.
Middlestead helped her own
cause, also adding two RBI to the day’s effort. LHU got
their scoring started in the first inning. Senior
centerfielder
Lynn Spiezio (Trooper, Pa./Methacton) got on with
a bunt single and then stole second. The next batter laid
down a sacrifice bunt, and with Spezio’s excellent speed,
she was able to score from second.
The Lady Eagles tacked on
another three runs in the sixth, two of which on a single
by Middlestead, bringing home
Stephanie
Hallowell (Eagleville,
Pa./Methacton)
and Hughes. Middlestead was thrown out at second trying to
stretch to a double.
Doubles sandwiching a walk
plated the final run, as
Danielle Fraser
(West
Milford ,N.J./West Milford)
scored on a
Heather Johnson (Williamsport
, Pa./Williamsport)
double.
Middlestead picked up the win, improving to 1-0. Steans
got the loss to fall to 2-8.
Middlestead, Hughes,
Barber, Guevara, Kinch, Spiezio, Hallowell, Fraser,
Johnson and the rest of the Lady Eagles are back in action
Sunday, March 6 against Findlay University at the Rebel
Games Tournament in Orlando,
Fla. |
