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Kansas City
4-17
Wichita State
16-7
Softball Drops Two to Top-30 Teams
3/18/2022 7:00:00 PM | Softball
Vonfeldt and Hilbrenner tally homeruns
GAME 1 | RV Wichita State-16 v KC-2 | KEY MOMENTS
- Top 1 / 0-3 | Kansas City's slow starts continued as the Roos gave up three runs in their first inning on the dirt.
- Bottom 2 / 0-6 | Ashley Thorne doubled down the left field line for KC's first hit of the day but only made it to third.
- Bottom 3 / 1-8 | Vonfeldt scored the Roos' first run with a solo shot over the fence.
- Top 4 / 1-12 | The Shockers enforced the run rule in the fourth inning with their second three-run homerun of the game.
- Bottom 5 / 2-16 | Hilbrenner took advantage of her last at-bat of the game with a two-out homerun over the right-centerfield fence.
- Kansas City has allowed one or more runs in the first inning in the last seven of their eight games.
- Vonfeldt hit the 15th homerun of her career, moving her into sixth place on program's career homerun list.
- Hilbrenner has a team-high four homeruns on the season and has totaled 10 in a Kansas City uniform.
- The Roos' tallied four hits in the game and two of those were homeruns.
- Bottom 1 / 0-0 | Mia Hoveland and the Kansas City defense retires the Cowgirls in a row, while Hoveland sat one down swinging.
- Top 2 / 0-0 | Delainey Fenoglio took an outside pitch to opposite field for the game's first hit but did not come around to score.
- Bottom 2 / 0-2 | Oklahoma State hit back-to-back homeruns to take the lead.
- Bottom 4 / 0-9 | Jenna Milan came into pitch and the Cowgirls sealed the run-rule victory with a three-run homerun
- Hoveland picked up three strikeouts in three and two-thirds innings pitched.
- Fenoglio was the only Roo to get a hit in the game off of Big XII First-Team pitcher, Kelly Maxwell.
- Lexy Smith was the lone Kansas City player to not tally a strikeout in the game.
Kansas City will play another pair of games against RV Wichita State and No. 11 Oklahoma State tomorrow. First pitch is scheduled for noon and games will be back-to-back.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Bingham, Caitlin (7-1)
L: Stickel, Camryn (2-6)
Batting:
2B: McKinney, Sydney 1 ; Herring, Neleigh 1 ; Lucas, Lauren 2 ; Brown, Lainee 1
HR: Barnard, Addison 1 ; Herring, Neleigh 1
RBI: McKinney, Sydney 1 ; Barnard, Addison 5 ; Herring, Neleigh 4 ; Lucas, Lauren 1 ; Nelson, Krystin 1 ; Tallent, Caroline 1 ; Glover, Wylie 2
Base Running:
RUNS: McKinney, Sydney 3 ; Barnard, Addison 3 ; Herring, Neleigh 3 ; Lucas, Lauren 1 ; Nelson, Krystin 1 ; Tallent, Caroline 1 ; Brown, Lainee 2 ; Glover, Wylie 2
Batting:
2B: Thorne, Ashley 1
HR: Hilbrenner, Kloe 1 ; Vonfeldt, Ally 1
RBI: Hilbrenner, Kloe 1 ; Vonfeldt, Ally 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Hilbrenner, Kloe 1 ; Vonfeldt, Ally 1
