Apr. 26—Lexi Benko and Arielle Blankenship combined for a three-hit shutout Sunday afternoon as Indiana State defeated visiting Southern Illinois 2-0 in the first game of a Missouri Valley Conference softball doubleheader at Price Field. The significance of that feat became immediately apparent in the second game, when the Salukis jumped out early and kept piling on for an 11-1 win that gave .
UE softball earns split with tough So. Illinois squad
Aces stay on road next weekend Aces softball (Source: WFIE) By Aaron Hancock | April 11, 2021 at 9:56 PM CDT - Updated April 12 at 12:43 AM
CARBONDALE, Ill. (WFIE) - Marah Wood hit a 3-run blast while Izzy Vetter picked up her 10th victory of the season to help the University of Evansville softball team split Sunday’s doubleheader against Southern Illinois at Charlotte West Stadium.
UE (18-13, 6-6 MVC) opened the day with an 8-2 win before the Salukis (28-7, 10-4 MVC) held on for a 4-1 decision in the second contest.
GAME 1
The offense erupted for eight runs in Sunday’s opener, which was highlighted by a 3-run home run from Marah Wood. UE wasted little time in jumping out front, plating two runs in each of the first two innings. Eryn Gould and Wood each posted 1-out hits to bring Alyssa Barela to the plate. Her successful squeeze scored Gould for the opening run of the game. Haley Woolf added an RBI single to mak
Posted By: Simon Elfrink
February 18, 2021
Jakob Milani
jmilani@murraystate.edu
Softball season is underway as the Murray State softball team kicked their season off in the Southern Mississippi tournament on Feb. 13 and 14.
The Racers lost three of their four games in the tournament over the weekend, including two losses to Southern Illinois University and another loss to University of Southern Mississippi.
Game One
The Racers started the weekend against the Southern Illinois University Salukis, a game they lost 3-1. Junior right-hander Hannah James got the start on the mound for Murray State and struggled early, walking the first batter and allowing a hit from freshman right fielder Bailey Caylor in the first inning. However, the Salukis weren’t able to score until the fifth inning when graduate student Maddy Vermejan scored on a fielding error that also allowed for Caylor to reach first. The Salukis scored again the next at-bat when senior first-basemen Jenny Jansen do