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APSU Lady Govs Softball has two walk off losses at Eastern Illinois Panthers

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Austin Peay State University Lady Govs - APSUCharleston, IL – Austin Peay State University’s softball team suffered two heartbreaking Ohio Valley Conference walk-off losses, Saturday at Glenn & Joan Williams Field, to Eastern Illinois by 4-3 and 3-2 – in eight innings — finals.

Austin Peay Softball. (Brittney Sparn/APSU Sports Information)
Austin Peay Softball. (Brittney Sparn/APSU Sports Information)

The losses also did major damage to the Lady Govs (19-29, 7-15 OVC) chances to make the OVC post-season tournament for the first time since the 2007 season, as they fall to ninth in the standings (top eight teams make the tournament field) a game-and-a-half behind Morehead State with four games left in the regular season.

Game 1 was especially tough loss for the Lady Govs, as they led Eastern Illinois (36-13, 16-4 OVC) 3-0 heading into the bottom of the seventh inning, with senior Lauren de Castro (12-13) limiting the Panthers to just three hits through the first six innings.

Lauren de CastroBut Reynae Hutchinson opened the inning with a single to center, followed by a chalk-line double by April Markowski to put Panthers on second and third, with no outs.

Carly Willert then broke-up the shutout with an RBI single, scoring Hutchinson to make it 3-1 and move Markowski to third.

Pinch-hitter Kaylie Bennett would make it 3-2 with a sacrifice fly to center field, scoring Markowski, followed by a bunt single by Haylee Beck.

After Beck stole second, Jennette Isaac laid down  to bring Willert in with the tying run, but de Castro’s throw home to catcher Mel Pavel got away allowing Beck to come around to score the game-winner.

Kayla DavidsonAustin Peay had scored its three runs in the top of the third inning, with Rikki Arkansas opening the inning with a triple to right field – and after a walk to Marissa Lake – scored on a sacrifice fly to deep left field by Kayla Davidson.

Arkansas led the Lady Govs with two hits.

An out later, de Castro made it 3-0 on her sixth home run of the season – a two-run shot out over the right-center field fence.

Game 2 was almost the reverse of the opening game, with EIU taking a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning and have their pitcher Stephanie Maday hurling a shutout for the first six innings of play.

But the Lady Govs finally broke through in the top of the seventh, with Davidson and Kristin Whitmire drawing back-to-back walks, with both runners moving up a base an out later on a ground ball by Vincheniza DiBenedetto.

That brought up Laurel Burroughs, who hit a liner back up the middle off Maday’s glove into center field scoring Davidson and Whitmire to tie the game 2-2.

Laurel BurroughsBurroughs’ hit was the lone hit tallied against Maday, who finished the game with a career-high 17 strikeouts.

Austin Peay starter Sidney Hooper (4-6) pitched around a two-out double in the bottom of the seventh to force the game into extra innings.

Austin Peay went down in order in their half of the eighth inning, but the Lady Govs weren’t so lucky with the Panthers.

Brooke Owen would open the inning with a single off Hooper’s arm and move into scoring position at second base on a sacrifice by Bailey O’Dell.

That brought up Hannah Cole, who ripped a shot into right-center for a double to score Owen and wrap up the two one-run wins for the Panthers.

Austin Peay wraps up its three-game OVC series against the Panthers today, with the game time moved up to 11:00am, from the original 1:00pm start, due to inclement weather moving into the area later in the afternoon.

Box Score – Game 1

Austin Peay at Eastern Illinois
April 26th, 2014
Charleston, IL | Williams Field

Austin Peay 3 (19-28,7-14 OVC)

Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
LAKE, Marissa lf 2 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 0
DAVIDSON, Kayla ss 3 0 0 1 0 0 4 1 0
PAVEL, Mel c 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1
DiBENEDETTO, Vinchen ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
de CASTRO, Lauren p 4 1 1 2 0 1 0 2 4
SPARKS, Niya 3b 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0
BURROUGHS, Laurel 2b 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0
WHITMIRE, Kristin 1b 2 0 0 0 1 0 7 0 1
GROVES, Chandler dp 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1
ARKANSAS, Rikki cf 2 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 0
De VRIES, Amanda rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Totals 24 3 3 3 6 7 19 7 7

Eastern Ilinois 4 (35-13,15-4 OVC)

Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
ISAAC, Jennette lf 4 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 2
OWENS, Brooke dp 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
O’DELL, Bailey ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
COLE, Hannah c 2 0 0 0 1 0 9 0 0
HUTCHINSON, Reynae 1b 3 1 2 0 0 0 3 1 0
MARKOWSKI, April rf 3 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 0
WILLERT, Carly 2b 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0
WESTOVER, Ashleigh 3b 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2
BIEL, Morgan pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
BENNETT, Kylie ph 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
BECK, Haylee cf 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
MENNENGA, Hanna p 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Totals 26 4 7 3 1 1 21 3 5

 

 

Score by Innings                  R  H  E
-----------------------------------------
Austin Peay......... 003 000 0 -  3  3  1
Eastern Ilinois..... 000 000 4 -  4  7  1
-----------------------------------------

Note: 1 out, 1 runner LOB when the game ended.

 

E – DE CASTRO(2); WESTOVER(14). LOB – Austin Peay 7; Eastern Ill. 5. 2B – HUTCHINSON(7); MARKOWSKI(7). 3B – ARKANSAS(3). HR – DE CASTRO(6). SF – DAVIDSON(2); BENNETT(1). SB – BECK(5).

 

Austin Peay ip h r er bb so wp bk hbp ibb ab bf fo go np
de CASTRO, Lauren L,12-13 6.1 7 4 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 26 28 11 7 91
Eastern Ilinois ip h r er bb so wp bk hbp ibb ab bf fo go np
MENNENGA, Hanna W,19-4 7.0 3 3 3 6 7 0 0 0 0 24 31 11 3 143

 

 

Win – MENNENGA (19-4). Loss – DE CASTRO (12-13). Save – None. PB – COLE(3).Pitches/strikes: DE CASTRO 91/59; MENNENGA 143/83.

Umpires – HP: Chris Long 1B: Roger Holzhauer 3B: Merri Taylor

Start: 12:59 pm Time: 1:48

Attendance: 402

Weather: Sunny, 75, Wind:W11

 

Box Score – Game 2

Austin Peay at Eastern Ilinois
April 26th, 2014
Charleston, IL | Williams Field

Austin Peay 2 (19-29,7-15 OVC)

Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
LAKE, Marissa lf 4 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 0
DAVIDSON, Kayla ss 1 1 0 0 2 1 4 2 0
WHITMIRE, Kristin 1b 2 1 0 0 1 2 10 0 0
de CASTRO, Lauren dp 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
SPARKS, Niya 3b 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
DiBENEDETTO, Vinchen ph/3b 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
BURROUGHS, Laurel 2b 3 0 1 2 0 1 1 8 0
PAVEL, Mel c 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
GROVES, Chandler c 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1
HOOPER, Sidney p 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0
BROWER, Courtney ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
ARKANSAS, Rikki cf 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
GABLE, Christiana ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
De VRIES, Amanda rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Totals 25 2 1 2 3 17 22 14 2

Eastern Ilinois 3 (36-13,16-4 OVC)

Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
ISAAC, Jennette lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
OWENS, Brooke dp 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 3
O’DELL, Bailey ss 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
PRUETT, Kaylie pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
COLE, Hannah c 3 0 2 1 0 0 17 0 0
HUTCHINSON, Reynae 1b 3 1 1 1 0 0 5 0 0
MARKOWSKI, April rf 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1
WILLERT, Carly 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
WESTOVER, Ashleigh 3b 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
BIEL, Morgan pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
BECK, Haylee cf 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
BENNETT, Kylie ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MADAY, Stephanie p 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Totals 29 3 8 3 0 1 24 4 6

 

 

Score by Innings                   R  H  E
------------------------------------------
Austin Peay......... 000 000 20 -  2  1  2
Eastern Ilinois..... 000 200 01 -  3  8  0
------------------------------------------

Note: 1 out, 1 runner LOB when the game ended.

 

E – DAVIDSON(19); BURROUGHS(14). DP – Austin Peay 1. LOB – Austin Peay 2; Eastern Ill. 6. 2B – O’DELL(7); COLE(10); HUTCHINSON(8); WESTOVER(2). HBP – COLE. SH – O’DELL(11).

 

Austin Peay ip h r er bb so wp bk hbp ibb ab bf fo go np
HOOPER, Sidney L,4-6 7.1 8 3 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 29 31 9 9 101
Eastern Ilinois ip h r er bb so wp bk hbp ibb ab bf fo go np
MADAY, Stephanie W,16-6 8.0 1 2 2 3 17 0 0 0 0 25 28 1 6 139

 

 

Win – MADAY (16-6). Loss – HOOPER S (4-6). Save – None. HBP – by HOOPER S (COLE).Pitches/strikes: HOOPER S 101/69; MADAY 139/87.

Umpires – HP: Roger Holzhauer 1B: Merri Taylor 3B: Chris Long

Start: 3:26 pm Time: 2:08

Attendance: 402

Weather: Sunny, 78, Wind:Sw10

 

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