Stephen F. Austin
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Softball Drops Weekend Series To Southwest Texas State
4/23/2000 12:00:00 AM | Softball
April 15, 2000
NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin Ladyjack softball dropped both ends of a doubleheader to Southwest Texas Saturday afternoon at Coy Simms Softball Complex by scores of 4-0 and 2-1. SWT completed the sweep with a 5-3 win Sunday afternoon. The Ladyjacks fall to 25-17 overall, and 10-9 in Southland Conference play with the losses.
Southwest Texas jumped out to an early 3-0 lead in the first game scoring one run in the first inning on an RBI double off the bat of DH Carmen Grindell. The Bobcats added two more in the second inning when Jennifer Youngdale had a lead-off homer to open the inning. Southwest Texas added another run on a single and another double by Sarah Youngblood.
The Ladyjacks could manage only a pair of singles off starter Jessica Chase, both coming in the fourth inning. Angela Froboese singled to start the inning, but was doubled off first base when Melissa Bradford lined out back to the mound. Ashley Moffett then followed with a two-out single, but was stranded when Devin Cobb grounded out to end the inning.
In the night cap of the twin bill, the Bobcats again took the early lead scoring a run in the top of the first inning when Haley Gaddis reached on an error. She eventually scored to make it a 1-0 game. SFA came back in the bottom of the third inning to tie the score at 1-1 when Angela Froboese singled with two outs, then Melissa Bradford tripled to drive in the only run of the afternoon for SFA.
Southwest Texas came right back to retake the lead 2-1 in the top of the fourth capitalizing on another error on the Ladyjack infield.
Jessica Chase pitched both games for Southwest Texas, going the distance to pick the wins in each. Morgan Tolleson took the loss in the opener for SFA to move her record to 12-7, while Devin Cobb was tagged with the loss in the night cap to fall to 10-6 on the year.
