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NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Sam Woodall hit a two-RBI single in the eighth inning to lift the Morehead State softball team to its second extra-innings win over Tennessee State in as many days. The Eagles, who tied the game in the top of the seventh, won 5-3 Sunday at Tiger Field to win their fourth OVC road game.
MSU also won in extra innings Saturday, 5-3 to take the first half of the doubleheader. The two wins pushed the Eagles to a 4-1 OVC mark, all on the road. Morehead is now 11-12 overall.
Trailing 3-2 entering Sunday’s seventh inning, MSU pinch hitter
Bethany Ellis doubled to right centerfield.
Anna Sommer re-entered for Ellis and advanced to third on an
Elizabeth Wagner groundout. Sommer then scored on a wild pitch to tie the score.
A pair of TSU groundouts and a foul out in the seventh sent the game to extra innings tied. Things didn’t look promising for the Eagles early in the eighth when the first three MSU batters resulted in a pair of outs. A single and a walk quickly reversed the Eagle fortunes, loading the bases for Woodall. Her game-winning single drove across
Bianca Cardenas and
Kayla Ashbrook.
The Tigers (7-15; 2-3 OVC)had a ground out and a fly out to start their half of the eighth, but Brooke Blackford singled. MSU started
Alex Gjevre ensured that would be the only hit in the inning, ending the game with a strike out of Tamara Perkins.
Gjevre (6-7) threw a complete game, allowing three runs, all unearned on six hits with seven strikeouts and no walks to pick up the win. Hannah Schnebly (4-4) took the loss for TSU, surrendering three earned runs on three hits with a walk and a strikeout.
Neither team was able to put up a run through the first four innings, but Ashbrook took advantage of Tennessee State miscues, reaching and scoring on errors. The Eagles made the lead 2-0 in the sixth when Cardenas singled to score pinch runner
Brooke McCartney.
TSU rebounded in the bottom of the sixth, turning the tables by taking advantage of three Eagle errors to scored three unearned runs and take the lead. Kara Murr, Schnebly and Bridget Metzger all scored for the Tigers.
No MSU batter had more than one hit, but the Eagles spread eight hits across eight different players. Woodall had two RBI and Ashbrook crossed the plate twice. Tennessee State also spread its six hit across six players, with Blackford earning an RBI.
The Eagles will host a doubleheader against rival Eastern Kentucky Tuesday at MSU Softball Field with first pitch set for 2 p.m. EDT
