EVANSVILLE, Ind. – An exciting day of action at Cooper Stadium saw the University of Evansville softball team sweep Drake to clinch the first Missouri Valley Conference series of the season.
Game One Box Score (PDF) -
Game Two Box Score (PDF)
UE (17-8, 2-1 MVC) defeated the Bulldogs (6-15, 1-2 MVC) by finals of 5-3 and 12-3. Over the course of the doubleheader, Haley Woolf had three hits, two runs and two RBI while Mackenzie McFeron registered four RBI in the two games. Jenna Lis and Jessica Fehr picked up three hits and three RBI apiece.
Game One – UE 5, Drake 3
Just as they did in Saturdays series opener, Drake came out swinging, scoring twice in the first inning. Jessica Fehr picked up the Aces first hit of the day to lead off the game and Evansville would have runners on second and third with one out before a pair of strikeouts ended the threat.
Two innings later, the Aces would cash in. Fehr doubled to center field for her second hit of the day. Following two quick outs, Jenna Lis came to the plate and delivered her first home run of the season to tie the game. Alexa Davis made it back-to-back, picking up her second dinger of the year to put the Aces on top, 3-2. Lis came up big in the top of the fourth, throwing baserunner out at second on a stolen base attempt.
Paige Bedsworth singled up the middle to score the tying run in the top of the fifth and it would remain that way until the sixth when the Aces retook control. Haley Woolf led off with a pinch hit single before Hannah Hood returned to run. After stealing second, Hood crossed the plate on a triple to deep center field from Mackenzie McFeron. McFeron made it a 5-3 game when she scored on a sacrifice fly by Fehr.
Sydney Weatherford got the job done in the seventh to cement her fourth win of the season. Her third consecutive complete game saw her allow three runs on five hits. After the first inning, she gave up just one run. Evansville finished with seven hits as Fehr and McFeron recorded two apiece.
Game Two – UE 12, Drake 3
Jessica Fehr followed up her 2-hit performance in game one with a quick strike in the finale. With Haley Woolf and Zoe Frossard on second and third with two outs, Fehr belted a single to score both and give Evansville a 2-0 advantage.
Four more runs crossed the plate in the third. Woolf hit a 2-RBI double to deep left field to plate Sydney Weatherford and Alexa Davis. Woolf came home on a single to left by Hannah Hood for the fifth run before Hood scored on an error to extend the advantage to 6-0. In the fourth, the Bulldogs got two of those runs back when Delaney Taylor homered to left.
Davis singled in the fourth to score Marah Wood, marking the third frame in a row that the Aces were on the board. Never giving up, the Bulldogs did their best to claw back. Haylee Lehman recorded the second long ball of the game to lead off the fifth, but the Aces were not going to be denied. A 5-run sixth inning capped off the 12-3 win. McFeron finished the day in walk-off style, hitting a 3-run double to clinch the win. Evansville had 12 hits in the game with Woolf, Wood, Lis and Alyssa Barela picking up two apiece. Izzy Vetter scattered six hits and three runs in six innings of work on the way to win #12 of the season.
On Tuesday, the Aces are set to face Tennessee Tech in a 2 p.m. doubleheader at Cooper Stadium.
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