Bulldogs close regular season with two wins
Jack Nicholl
Issue date: 5/1/08 Section: Sports
The softball team went two for two this weekend.
The Bulldogs traveled north to the Minnesota State University-Mankato tournament and left with a 3-2 eight-inning victory against University of Minnesota-Duluth and a 3-0 victory against Augustana College (S.D.) on Sunday.
Truman (22-19, 8-10 MIAA) originally was scheduled to play three additional games Saturday, but cold weather and snowy fields forced the games to be cancelled. The cool conditions persisted Sunday after the fields were cleared, but Truman overcame it in the two wins.
Senior Katie Jeannin recorded the win in both games, throwing six shutout innings in Game 2 and getting out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth inning of the first game, allowing her to pick up the win. She repeated her recent success by continuing to throw her low-and-outside dropball.
"That dropball, that low-and-out pitch, is just her pitch," sophomore catcher Erica LaCombe said. "And there is rarely a hitter who will tell you that their pitch is low and outside. It's the hardest pitch to hit, and it's even more a hard pitch to hit hard."
Jeannin only gave up two hits in Game 2 and coaxed nine goundball outs before handing the ball to junior Stephanie Martin to close out the victory in the seventh.
Truman only had six hits in the contest, all singles, and did not draw a walk. But the 'Dogs were able to manufacture two-out rallies in the third and fifth innings for the scores.
In the top of the fifth, Belcher made history when she got her 153rd career stolen base, which broke the MIAA record for career steals. Belcher was two-for-three and scored two of the three Bulldog runs in the game.
"Part of it hasn't sunk in yet, and I don't know if it will," Belcher said about the record.
In Game 1, senior pitcher Katie Noski took the mound. Despite giving up 16 base runners overall and a season-high 11 hits in 7.2 innings, Noski came out of the game having only allowed two runs with Truman down by one in the eighth.
The Bulldogs traveled north to the Minnesota State University-Mankato tournament and left with a 3-2 eight-inning victory against University of Minnesota-Duluth and a 3-0 victory against Augustana College (S.D.) on Sunday.
Truman (22-19, 8-10 MIAA) originally was scheduled to play three additional games Saturday, but cold weather and snowy fields forced the games to be cancelled. The cool conditions persisted Sunday after the fields were cleared, but Truman overcame it in the two wins.
Senior Katie Jeannin recorded the win in both games, throwing six shutout innings in Game 2 and getting out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth inning of the first game, allowing her to pick up the win. She repeated her recent success by continuing to throw her low-and-outside dropball.
"That dropball, that low-and-out pitch, is just her pitch," sophomore catcher Erica LaCombe said. "And there is rarely a hitter who will tell you that their pitch is low and outside. It's the hardest pitch to hit, and it's even more a hard pitch to hit hard."
Jeannin only gave up two hits in Game 2 and coaxed nine goundball outs before handing the ball to junior Stephanie Martin to close out the victory in the seventh.
Truman only had six hits in the contest, all singles, and did not draw a walk. But the 'Dogs were able to manufacture two-out rallies in the third and fifth innings for the scores.
In the top of the fifth, Belcher made history when she got her 153rd career stolen base, which broke the MIAA record for career steals. Belcher was two-for-three and scored two of the three Bulldog runs in the game.
"Part of it hasn't sunk in yet, and I don't know if it will," Belcher said about the record.
In Game 1, senior pitcher Katie Noski took the mound. Despite giving up 16 base runners overall and a season-high 11 hits in 7.2 innings, Noski came out of the game having only allowed two runs with Truman down by one in the eighth.
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