February 29,
2008
Softball
Splits with Western Oregon and Western Washington
Western Oregon
Box Score
Western Washington
Box Score
RICHLAND, Wash. – Montana State Billings
split a pair of games on the second day of the CWU Invitational.
Western Oregon handed the Jackets a 9-0 defeat in the
early game. MSUB
came back with a hard-fought 3-2 victory over Western Washington
in the nightcap.
With the split, the Jackets stand at 2-2 in the tournament and
4-5 overall this season.
The Wolves opened the scoring in the first
inning with three runs which set the tone for the game.
MSUB hurler Terina Stacks (1-1) went four and one third
innings, allowing eight hits, six runs – three earned, one walk
and had two strikeouts.
Lindsey Trenery relieved Stack and went two and two
thirds allowing seven hits, three earned runs, two walks and a
strikeout.
WOU’s pitcher Christina Cooke (1-1) went the
distance, scattering five hits, with a walk and punched out
four. Western
Oregon added two more runs courtesy of home runs by Laura Safley
and Jamie Becker in the fourth and fifth innings.
Becker added her second homer in the seventh to close the
game.
Leslie Davis led the Yellowjackets with two
hits, going 2 for 3 for the game.
Tyler Sutherland led the Wolves with three hits, a run
scored and a double.
In the nightcap, the Yellowjackets responded
with a 3-2 victory over Western Washington (6-4).
MSUB hurler Rebekah Tsatsa (2-1) pitched a complete game
four hitter. She
allowed two earned runs, walked one and had four strikeouts.
The Yellowjackets
opened the game in the first inning with one run scored on an
error. The Vikings
committed two errors in the inning.
WWU got a run back in the top of the
second, but a pair of RBI doubles by Leslie Davis and Shay Oberg
in the bottom half gave the Jackets a 3-1 lead.
The Vikings cut the deficit to one run in
fourth with a RBI double, but hit into an inning-ending double
play in the fifth, as well as going down in order in the sixth
and the seventh innings.
The Yellowjackets now will face Saint Martin’s and Central
Washington on Saturday.
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