TOPEKA, Kan. – The Washburn Ichabod softball team split its MIAA opener on Friday at the Washburn Softball Complex falling in game one 8-5 while taking the nightcap 9-3. Washburn improves to 13-12 and will host Pittsburg State on Saturday starting at 1 p.m.
Game 1 – MSSU 8, Washburn 5
The Ichabods took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning on a sac fly be
Winter Henry that scored
Brianna Fuchs after she led off the game with a double. In the second, Eillie Dixon reached on a drop fly ball by the Lions and then
Jenna Moore came around to score on the play. Fuchs then scored
Cassidy Greer putting Washburn up 3-0. The Lions got two runs back in the top of the third and tied the score in the fourth on an RBI single. In the fourth, the Ichabods came back with two runs of their own taking a 5-3 lead after RBI singles by Fuchs and by
Hadley Kerschen. The Lions tied the game with a pair of runs with two outs in the fifth inning knotting the score at 5-5. Neither team would score in the sixth or seventh inning sending the game to extras and the Lions scored three runs taking an 8-5 lead and the Ichabods came up empty in the bottom of the inning.
Fuchs, Dixon and
Ashton Friend had two hits for the Ichabods and Fuchs drove in two. Greer scored twice and drew two walks. Zuniga takes the loss in the circle striking out six.
Game 2 – Washburn 9, MSSU 3
The Ichabods jumped on the board in the bottom of the first when
Cassidy Greer singled to right scoring
Brianna Fuchs who walked leading off the inning. Washburn stretched the lead to 2-0 when Fuchs singled up the middle scoring
Ellie Dixon who doubled earlier in the inning. After the Lions scored two in the top of the third, the Ichabdos went up 5-3 on
Bri Francis' 3-run homer to left center scoring both
Ashton Friend and
Winter Henry. The Ichabods added three more runs on an RBI single by Fuchs and a 2-RBI double by
Hadley Kerschen staking the Ichabods to an 8-3 lead. Washburn added one more in the sixth when Moore singled to left scoring
Winter Henry who also singled in the inning.
Raegen Hamm picked up the win in relief pitching the final four innings giving up two hits.
Henry had three hits and Francis finished with 3 RBI and Fuchs and Kerschen each had 2 RBI.
