BEMIDJI, Minn. – The Minnesota State University Moorhead softball team pounded out 14 hits in a 10-6 Game 2 win over Bemidji State on Saturday in Bemidji, Minn. The win gave the Dragons a split on the day as Bemidji State won the opener by an 8-0 score.
MSUM is now 6-15 overall and 1-3 in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference while Bemidji State is 13-6 overall and 3-1 in the league.
In the second game, sophomore shortstop
Taylor Roddie was 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI while senior first baseman
Lauren Meeker was 3-for-3 with a double and two runs scored. Fox was 2-for-4 with two RBI, while sophomore outfielder
Madison Paige was 1-for-5 with a double and two RBI. Sophomore catcher
Savanah Tweet was 1-for-3 with two RBI while freshman third baseman
Emma Dummer was 1-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Senior right fielder
Hannah Klug was 1-for-3 with an RBI while senior outfielder
Carly Williamson and freshman
Payton Gaber each had hits.
The 14 hits were the second-highest total of the season for MSUM.
"It was great to see some good offensive production in the second game," MSUM head coach
Kelsey Fehl said. "We were able to string some hits together, score runs and continue hitting even after Bemidji scored some runs."
Freshman
Becky Volkert got the win for MSUM, giving up seven hits, six runs (four earned) in five-plus innings. She struck out three and walked two. Freshman
Tori White picked up her first save of the season, going two scoreless innings, allowing two hits and one walk.
MSUM scored a run in the first when an RBI double from Paige scored Roddie, who had singled with one out. Bemidji State tied the game with a run in the bottom of the second.
The Dragons broke through for a four-run third inning to take a 5-1 lead. Williamson led off with a single and stole second. Roddie walked. Paige's fielder's choice scored Williamson, putting MSUM up one run. Roddie also scored to make it 3-1. Meeker singled to move Paige to second, and Dummer hit a fielder's choice to force Paige at third. After both runners advanced on a wild pitch, Tweet singled down the left field line to score sophomore
Aunica Novacek, who was pinch-running for Meeker, and Fox singled to score Dummer, making it 5-1.
Bemidji State climbed within 5-3 in the fourth but the Dragons answered in the fifth. Meeker doubled and moved to third on a wild pitch. Dummer reached on an error, and Tweet's sac fly scored Meeker for a 6-3 Dragon lead. Later in the inning, Klug singled to score Dummer as MSUM pushed the lead to 7-3.
MSUM wasn't through at the plate. Roddie led off the sixth with a single and one out later, Meeker singled. Dummer doubled to center to score Roddie, and moments later, Fox reached on an error to score Meeker.
Bemidji State scored three times in the sixth to make it 9-6. MSUM added an insurance run in the seventh when Gaber singled, and was pinch-ran for by sophomore
KyLee Bartholomay, who moved to second on a sacrifice by Klug. Bartholomay would score on Roddie's RBI double to make it 10-6.
Roddie had a double for MSUM in the first game, while Meeker and Fox were each 1-for-2 against Bemidji ace Jessica Yost, who had fired a perfect game two days earlier.
White took the loss on the mound, giving up five runs, four earned, in a 1/3 inning of work. She walked two and struck out none. Freshman
Jordan Hall had a solid outing in relief, giving up three runs in 4 1/3 innings. She struck out two and walked none.
MSUM makes its home debut on Sunday against Minnesota Crookston. The doubleheader begins at 1 p.m. at the MSUM Softball Field. The game was moved from Crookston because of wet field conditions at UMC.
