University of North Florida
Georgia Southern
UNF Clips Eagles in Sweep
3/24/2010 10:01:05 PM | Softball
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On the day, the Ospreys (15-18, 1-1 A-Sun) scored 16 runs on 18 hits. Sophomore Amanda Moseley led the Ospreys in RBI with four, going 3-for-8 with a double that came in UNF's eighth inning rally.
In the first game, the Ospreys led the game for a total of six innings until the bottom of seventh inning when the Eagles (16-11) scored four runs to send the game into extra innings.
The Ospreys started the game off strong taking advantage of Georgia Southern starter Brianna Streetmon. Streetmon tossed 5.1 before being taken out, allowing seven runs on eight hits.
The Eagles came back in the second with a leadoff home run to dead center field by Eagle third baseman Jenny Side. Later in the inning, the Eagles evened the score, 2-2. The second inning saw two of the four errors committed in the first game by UNF, tying a season high.
Block and Moseley were credited with RBI in the fourth inning to bring the lead back to two (4-2). Stephany Hall, who has been hot for the Ospreys as of late, drove in two runs in the succeeding inning to extend the UNF lead to four with a gapper to left-center inches away from the warning track. Hall went 2-for-4, with two RBI and a run scored.
After the Eagles' two-run second inning, senior Devyn Findley (11-9) shut the Eagles down through 7.1 innings of work, allowing two runs on six hits. In the sixth inning, Findley got into some trouble with two outs and runners on first and second. Sophomore Shaina Dent relieved Findley and whiffed the next batter in the line-up, holding
In the seventh inning, the Eagles mustered three base hits, a walk and a hit by pitch to bring in four runs to tie the ball game, 6-6.
With the bases juiced, Andrea Tarashuk came up big for the Eagles, scoring a two RBI base hit up the middle to come within one of UNF (6-5). After Findley re-entered, the Eagles scored the tying run, giving
In the eighth inning, the Ospreys scored three-runs to surpass the Eagles' late innings heroics. Block, reached on an error and drove in the first of three runs, ending
In the second game,
In game two, six different Ospreys had hits and five players drove in at least one RBI.
Aftter letting the opposition came back in the first game, UNF held the leash tight on the Eagles scoring runs in the first, second, fifth and sixth innings.
Senior Ospreys stood out in the second game with Airen Payne going 2-for-4 with two RBI and Kara Rutenbar's 2-for-3 performance, crossing the plate twice for UNF.
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