Game 1 Box Score (HTML | PDF)
Game 2 Box Score (HTML | PDF)
MOREHEAD, Ky. – Freshman
Amber Riddle hit a pair of home runs –a three-run and a two-run blast – in the second game as the Morehead State softball team salvaged a split of a doubleheader with visiting Marshall University Wednesday. After falling 4-2 in the opener, the Eagles defeated the Herd 9-3 for MSU’s first victory over Marshall since the 2001 season.
The Eagles, who had lost eight straight to Marshall since 2001, improved to 18-14, while the Thundering Herd now sits at 18-19.
Riddle upped her team leading home run total to six and her team best RBI numbers to 25. She hit a two-run homer in the first inning of game two to give her team a 2-0 lead and then added a three-run bomb that ricocheted off the scoreboard in left field in the fifth to give her team a 9-3 lead. She was 2-for-2 with a walk and the five RBI. In the first game, she also tallied an RBI for six runs batted in on the afternoon.
Alianna Telles matched Riddle’s effort for the Herd as she hit a pair of home runs in consecutive at-bats in the nightcap as well.
Senior pitcher
Alex Gjevre won her eighth consecutive start, tossing all seven innings while allowing just two earned runs. She also pitched the final inning of game one, allowing nothing. Gjevre improved to 10-7.
Sarah Funston was tagged with the loss in the opener to fall to 7-6, while Katie Murphree picked up the win. She allowed just four Eagles hits and struck out five.
After Riddle’s first homer had MSU on top 2-0, the Herd scored an unearned run in the second. Pinch runner Taylor Thompson stole third and scored on a throwing error on the play. Telles tied the game with her first balst – a solo job – in the third.
The Eagles grabbed the lead for good in the fourth and finished with four runs in the inning.
Kayla Ashbrook scored the go-ahead run after #Sam Woodall’s
infield grounder was throw away at third. Woodall ended up on second on the Marshall fielding miscue. Ashley Archer
then lined a single to right centerfield to score Woodall and Courtney Seiler#.
Bethany Ellis added a pinch hit RBI single to make it a 6-2 Eagle lead.
Telles smashed another solo shot in the fifth to inch the Herd back to within 6-3, but Riddle answered with the three-run homer in the bottom of the inning.
Archer went 2-for-3 with two RBI, while Brill scored twice. Caitlyn Jackson led Marshall with three of its eight hits against Gjevre.
In the first game, Marshall jumped on top 2-0 in the top of the first. Rebecca Gamby recorded an RBI single, and Victoria Marvin singled home the second run. The Eagles got one back in the bottom of the frame. Brill stole home plate when Gamby attempted to pick
Rebecca Butler off second base.
MSU tied the game at 2-2 in the bottom of the third. Riddle hit a “Texas League” single to left field that scored Brill from second base after she had stolen the base on the previous pitch.
Marshall got the go-ahead run in the sixth on a Marvin solo home run and added the fourth tally on a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
Morehead State, in first place in the OVC right now, hosts Jacksonville State this weekend for a three-game series starting on Saturday at 1 p.m.
