Game 1 Box Score (HTML | PDF)
Game 2 Box Score (HTML | PDF)
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – It was kind of like night and day in terms of results for the Morehead State softball team in its doubleheader at Western Kentucky Wednesday night. The Eagles got a complete game, three-hit shutout from senior pitcher Alex Gjevre to win the opener 5-0, while the Hilltoppers’ offense was too much in the nightcap as they exploded for nine runs and 12 hits in a 9-3 victory.
MSU is now 24-17 overall heading this weekend’s Ohio Valley Conference series against Tennessee Tech in Morehead.
In the first game, MSU scored once each in the second and third innings and plated three runs in the fourth while Gjevre kept the WKU bats at bay with just two walks and four strikeouts. Gjevre improved to 13-8 overall on the year.
Junior third baseman Rebecca Butler launched a solo home run to right field to get the Eagles on top 1-0 in the second. It was Butler’s sixth homer of the year and 19th of her career as she continues to add on to her MSU career record.
Sophomore Kayla Brill picked up an RBI in the third inning as she doubled home freshman Anna Sommer after the Eagles’ second baseman had reached via an infield fielding error.
The Eagles put together a three-run scoring flurry with two outs in the fourth. Freshman Elizabeth Wagner hit a bases-loaded single to score two runs, and freshman Kayla Ashbrook added an RBI single as well.
Brill and Ashbrook had two hits each of the Eagles’ total of eight, while Sommer scored twice.
In the second game, the Hilltoppers chased MSU starter Sarah Funston in the third as the senior pitcher allowed seven earned runs and nine hits. WKU led 7-0 before adding the final two in the fifth. Ashley Boyd tossed the final 3.2 innings and gave up just one earned run.
The Eagles cut the game to 7-3 in the fourth. Brill led off with her fifth homer of the year, and Butler added an RBI on a long fly ball to right that was misplayed. Ashbrook scored on the play. Bianca Cardenas grounded out to end the inning, but on the play Amber Riddle scored before the third out was made.
MSU manahed only three hits off WKU starter Mallorie Salaski (7-7). Funston took the loss to dip to 10-8.
The Eagles host Tech on Saturday with the first pitch set for 1 p.m. EST.
