NEW ALBANY, Ind. – The Saint Mary-of-the-Woods softball team continued its busy stretch of 12 games in seven days by dropping a River States Conference doubleheader at IU-Southeast on Monday afternoon. After dropping the first game of the day by the score of 5-1, the Pomeroys fell in the nightcap 9-8 in 10 innings.
The Woods is now 4-8 on the young season and are 1-3 in the RSC. IU-Southeast is now 10-9.
In the day's second game
Jasmine Kinzer reached on an infield single in the top of the second to take an early 1-0 lead. After IU-Southeast knotted the score at one, the Pomeroys scored three times in the third on singles by
Jaselyn Conn and Kinzer as well as a based loaded hit-by-pitch from Navaeh Pender for the 4-1 lead. After IU-Southeast got back within a run, Crawford recorded a sacrifice fly to score
Abby Broughton to push SMWC ahead 5-3. IU-Southeast knotted the score at 5 in the bottom of the fifth inning before
Justyce Rohrabaugh recorded a sacrifice bunt while allowed Pender to score an unearned run for the 6-5 lead. In the bottom of the sixth inning, IU-Southeast took an 8-6 lead before SMWC got one run back in the top of the seventh inning on Kinzer reaching on an error which allowed
Lyric Krause to score. The Pomeroys knotted the score at 8, as Crawford came around the score. IU-Southeast would eventually win 9-8 when they scored off an RBI double in the bottom of the 10
th inning.
Kinzer and Pender each recorded two RBI in the contest.
Marin Jacobs tallied three innings of three hit relief and allowed just one run but fell to 1-3 on the season with the loss.
In the day's first game IU-Southeast got out to a 5-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Pender would steal third base and score on an error for the Pomeroy's only run of the contest.
Lyric Krause and
Jasmine Kinzer each recorded hits for SMWC.
Lanna Martinez took the loss for the Pomeroys to fall to 0-3 on the season with four earned runs allowed on just three hits. Jacobs tossed five innings in relief by giving up three hits and striking out one.
The road schedule continues tomorrow as the Pomeroys travel to University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy in St. Louis on Tuesday, March 12 for a pair of games. First pitch of game 1 is set for 3 p.m. (ET).