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HCC Sports Information
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Freshman pitcher Kelli Walker earned
her third victory of the season and freshman Dusty Smith delivered a
key two-out, two-run single in a three-run sixth inning to lead the
Hutchinson Community College softball team to a 4-1 victory over
Garden City in the first half of a Jayhawk West doubleheader on
Tuesday afternoon at Fun Valley.
Garden City managed a split of the
twin bill with Hutchinson, taking the nightcap 5-4. HCC had the
bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh with one out and couldn’t
push the tying run across.
The Lady Dragons (5-2, 1-1 Jayhawk
West) will play at the Cloud County Invitational on Saturday and
Sunday in Concordia.
Game 1 Recap
Walker (3-0) pitched the final two
innings in relief of starters Courtney Johnson, who received a
no-decision after five innings of work.
The only blemish on Walker’s two
innings was a bases-empty, two-out error in the seventh inning. She
had four groundouts, one pop-up and one flyout in her two innings of
work. Walker earned the victory in the circle on the power for a
3-run sixth inning, which broke open a 1-1 tie.
After sophomore Nicole Bauer doubled
to lead off the inning, sophomore Megan Hudson drove in pinch-runner
Ashley Cushinberry with a double of her own for a 2-1 HCC lead. Then
with the bases loaded a two out, Smith roped a two-run single to
plate Shea Scanlon and pinch-runner Dani Torres for a 4-1 HCC lead.
Smith led a nine-point Lady Dragon
attack, going 2 for 3 with a pair of RBIs in Game 1. Hudson also
went 2 for 3.
The Lady Dragons took a 1-0 lead in
the first inning on sophomore Jenn Tanno’s RBI single which scored
leadoff hitter Jessica Glenn.
Garden City tied the game in the
second off Johnson when Kayla Jeanjaquet scored on a wild pitch.
Johnson allowed six hits, three walks
and only one earned run in five innings of work. Johnson had one
strikeout.
Garden City stranded nine runners on
base. HCC left eight on base.
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Game 2 Recap
Glenn went 4 for 4 to lead HCC’s
11-hit attack in the nightcap. But the Lady Dragons couldn’t product
enough two-out hits to straight eight more runners on base in a 5-4
loss.
The Lady Dragons kept batting back in
Game 2. Down 4-1 after Garden City’s half of the fifth, HCC pulled
within one after Nicole Bauer’s two-run home run. Then after the
Broncbusters scored a single run in the top of the sixth, Hudson hit
a solo homer in the bottom of the inning to pull the Lady Dragons
within 5-4 entering the seventh.
Hutch loaded the bases with one out
in the bottom of the seventh against Garden City pitcher Joni
Stegman, but Glenn was cut down at home on a fielder’s choice to the
pitcher. Hudson then hit into another fielder’s choice to end the
game.
Bauer and Hudson went 2 for 4 each.
Hudson scored two runs and drove in one with her second homer of the
season.
HCC starting pitcher Kourtney Klein
(1-2) took the loss, but Garden City figured out Walker in Game 2.
Walker allowed eight hits and three runs in 2 2-3 innings. Klein
struck out two and gave up four hits and two earned runs in three
innings.
Garden City had 14 hits, including
three hits from leadoff hitter Megan Hamilton and Rebecca Diehl, who
drove in three RBIs.
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