Friday 13th Good Luck for Lady Jackets (4/13/07)
Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
Game Photos

BILLINGS, MT – The Montana State-Billings softball team needed a change of luck.  The wet spring weather the last couple weeks was on the verge of completely spoiling their home schedule, but that all changed on Friday.  After having nine of their last 10 games snowed out, the Yellowjackets took advantage of a sunny Friday the 13th to sweep visiting Incarnate Word in a Heartland Conference doubleheader. 

The Jackets won the first game 5-0 behind Lindsey Trenary's (Helena, MT) complete-game shutout and completed the sweep with a 7-4 win in game two.  MSUB evened its overall record at 20-20 and improved to 8-5 in the conference.  Preseason Heartland favorite Incarnate Word dropped to 18-27, 6-10.  The two will meet again on Saturday in a doubleheader starting at 1:00 p.m. at Cenex Stadium.

Ternary has emerged as the Jackets’ go-to starter in the past few weeks.  The freshman from Helena Capital High School kept the Cardinals off balance in Friday’s early game, scattering four hits over seven innings.  She struck out six and walked two, improving to 4-3 on the season.  After starting the year 1-3, Trenary has posted three-straight victories.

Twice the Cardinals were able to push a runner to third base, but Trenary worked out of both jams.  In the fifth she forced a groundout, and in the sixth she wrung up a bases-loaded strikeout.  In the third, fourth, and seventh innings, Trenary sat the Cardinals down in order.

The Jackets gave Trenary all the support she needed when they broke a scoreless tie with a pair of runs in the third.  Jenna McCartney (Hamilton, MT) hit a two-out single to center field to score Aysha Maddox (Richland, WA) and Mandy Schaapveld (Puyallup, WA).  McCartney was 2-for-3 in the game.

MSUB tacked on three insurance runs with a power surge in the bottom of the fourth.  Jenna Haacke (Billing, MT) hit her fifteenth career home run, a two-run shot with one out that scored Terina Stacks (Washougal, WA).  After a groundout, Leslie Davis (Federal Way, WA) hammered a two-out full count pitch for her fourth homer of the year.  Davis was 2-for-3.

The Cardinals’ Amanda Sparks (5-9) took the loss, allowing six hits and five runs in four innings.  Monica Gutierrez gave up two hits without allowing a run in relief.  Four different UIW batters had singles.

After spotting the Cardinals a 1-0 lead in the second game, the Yellowjacket offense scored three runs in the first and third innings.  After the first two batters went down in the bottom of the first, Stacks kept the inning alive with a single to center.  Steph Gosselin (Victoria, BC) followed Stacks with a first-pitch home run, her second of the year.  In the next at bat, Davis blasted her second solo shot of the day and fifth home run of the year.

In the MSUB half of the third, starter Rebekah Tsatsa (Eagle, ID) helped her own cause with an RBI double to right that scored Gosselin from third.  Two batters later, senior Megan Moeller (Ontario, OR) knocked a two-out single to left center to score Davis and Tsatsa.  The Jackets added a run in the fourth when Maddox drew a bases loaded walk to score Stacks.

Gosselin was 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs.  Davis went 3-for-3 to go 5-for-6 for the day.  Stacks, Tsatsa, and Moeller each had two hits.  Tsatsa gave up nine hits and three earned runs in the win.  She improved her season record to 8-8.

Judyann Gonzales took the loss for UIW, allowing 12 hits in six innings.  Stacy Segner was 2-for-2 and scored two runs.  Patty Madera was 2-for-4 and drove in two RBI.  Jenny Whitt was 1-for-3 with a walk and two runs.

Saturday will be Senior Day for MSU Billings.  Yellowjacket seniors Maddox, Moeller, McCartney, and Lorel Palmer (Ogden, UT) will be honored following the second game.