Kansas City
IUPUI
'Roos Take Series From Jags After Doubleheader Split
3/19/2010 7:49:00 PM | Softball
Kansas City, Mo. -- The UMKC softball team (8-17) split its doubleheader on Friday with IUPUI at Loyola Park on the campus of Rockhurst University. The 'Roos took game one, 8-2, from the Jags behind a three-run home run from Betsy Hanley, but fell 7-0 in game two.
The 'Roos jumped ahead early in the first game, putting three runs on the board in the first inning. Kaelene Curry led the inning off with a single and Kelly Fischer followed it up by reaching on an error. After a pop out, Hanley sent the Jaguar offering over the right field fence for a three-run home run.
The 'Roos tacked on another run in the bottom of the second when Anna Sokolik knocked in Rashonda Stanley with an RBI single, pushing the lead to 4-0.
After a scoreless third, IUPUI cut the lead in half with a two-run fourth inning.
The two teams then went scoreless in their next two at-bats, before the 'Roos put the game away with a four-run sixth. Fischer got the scoring started when she belted a three-run double to right that scored Curry, Sokolik and Danielle Bennefeld. Hanley then drove in Fischer to register her fourth RBI of the game.
Sokolik would close out the Jaguars in the seventh for the complete game.
In the game, Sokolik (4-3) tossed seven innings, allowing four hits and an earned run with three strikeouts, while Curry, Hanley, Sokolik and Lauren Rodrigues finished with multi-hit games at the plate.
In game two, the two teams started slowly, as neither team was able to cross the plate in the first three innings.
IUPUI broke through first with three runs in the fourth off UMKC starting pitcher Emily Ott.
The Jags added three more runs in the fifth off Deanna Friese, scoring two runs on Amy Raker's two-run double.
IUPUI pushed the lead to the final score of 7-0 in the seventh when Raker's RBI single off Friese knocked in Alicia Hayes.
For the 'Roos, Fischer and Rodrigues each recorded two hits, while Sokolik chipped in one. On the mound, Ott (0-3) took the loss, allowing three runs on three hits with two strikeouts in 3.1 innings, while Friese struck out five in three innings of work.
The Blue and Gold will be in action again next weekend when they head to Macomb, Ill., to take on Summit League foe Western Illinois.
