University of St. Thomas Athletics
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Softball gets two shutout wins on Thursday
3/25/2005 12:00:00 AM | Softball
The St. Thomas softball team moved to 6-3 on its trip and 11-4 on the season with two shutout wins Thursday at the Sun West Tournament in Orange, Calif. The Tommies blanked Dana (Neb.) 7-0 and shutout 18th-ranked Williams (Mass.) 6-0.
The Tommies are scheduled to close their trip with two Friday games -- vs. Tufts (Mass.) at 3 p.m., and vs. Simon Fraser (B.C.) at 5:30 p.m.
The Toms' Wednesday game with Doane (Neb.) was rained out. Tuesday, UST got a 7-4 win over Eastern Oregon in a rain-shortened game, and lost 4-3 in eight innings to St. Scholastica.
UST had beaten Williams 5-3 on Monday. In the second meeting, Maria Bye threw a two-hit shutout and struck out nine while walking four. Bye also went 3-for-3 at the plate. It was 1-0 into the sixth inning when Kristi Huegel hit a two-run homer. Nikki Conway added a three-run homer in the seventh inning.
In the Dana win, Janet Nagle allowed two hits and two walks with six strikeouts in 5 1-3 innings, and Emily Waage and Carrie Embree completed the shutout. Mandy Evans homered and Nagle, Katie Wiberg, Conway and Ashley Carlblom each had two hits.
In the Eastern Oregon victory, the game was tied 4-4 into the fifth but the Toms scored three runs and had runners on second and third when it was halted by rain. Bye got the win as she allowed four runs, four hits and six walks with four strikeouts, Huegel, Embree and Carlblom each had two hits.
In the loss to St. Scholastica, the international rule put runners on second base for each team to start the eighth inning. The Saints scored on an error for a 4-3 lead. The Toms' runner was bunted was thrown out at home trying to score on an errant pitch, then Katie Wiberg singled but the threat ended. Nagle allowed three earned runs six hits and five walks with five strikeouts in eight innings. Michelle Wong and Wiberg each had two hits.
see UST-Williams box score here
see UST vs. Dana box score here
see UST vs. E. Oregon box score here
