Saturday, March 31
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Tulsa Softball Takes 9-0 Win to Sweep 3-Game Series Against ECU
3/31/2018 2:07:00 PM | Softball
Box Score PDF • Season Stats • Game Highlights & Recap
TULSA, Okla. –– Tulsa scored seven runs in the 4th inning and Emily Watson pitched a one-hitter as the Golden Hurricane captured a 9-0 run-rule win over the ECU Pirates on Saturday afternoon at the Collins Family Softball Complex.
The only hit that Watson allowed came with the game's opening batter, as ECU's Tyler King singled to left field. Watson went on to strikeout 8 of the remaining 16 batters she faced.
Watson improved her season record to 13-6 with the victory and also increased her career mark against the Pirates to 8-0 with two wins over the weekend, while eight Tulsa batters scored runs for the Hurricane today.
Tulsa improved to 22-14 overall and 3-3 in The American, while ECU fell to 15-21 and 105 in league play.
Tulsa got on the board in the bottom of the 2nd inning as Rylie Spell and Shannon Hughes drew walks before advancing a base on Mikayla Whitten's single to center field. Shelby Estocado's single to center field scored both Spell and Hughes for a 2-0 Tulsa lead after two innings.
The big inning for the Hurricane came in the 4th, when three of Tulsa's first four batters walked, thus loading the bases for Tori Stafford, who singled in the first two runs. After a pitching change, Haley Meinen knocked in a run with a single, a Hughes walk brought in one run, while in her second at-bat of the inning, Whitten put a single down the right field line scoring Sarah Briers and Meinen to make the score 8-0.
Hughes scored on a Julia Hollingsworth's fielder's choice as the Hurricane closed out the 4th inning with 7 runs and 3 hits, while four batters walked and one, Brier, reached base on a hit by pitch.
Tulsa will be in action Wednesday night for a non-conference game at Oklahoma State, before traveling for another American Athletic Conference weekend series at Wichita State, Friday-Sunday, April 6-8.
Score by Innings 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
ECU 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Tulsa 0 2 0 7 X 9 7 0
LOB - ECU 2; Tulsa 8. HBP - BRIERS,S. SH - Inae(3); BRIERS,S(6). SB - ESTOCADO,S(6); WHITTEN,M(2).
Win - WATSON,E (13-6). Loss - Sanford (5-9). Save - None.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Watson, Emily (13-6)
L: SANFORD, Whitney (5-9)
Batting:
SH: INAE, Ashleigh 1
Batting:
RBI: Estocado, Shelby 2 ; Stafford, Tori 2 ; Meinen, Haley 1 ; Hughes, Shannon 1 ; Whitten, Mikayla 2
SH: Briers, Sarah 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Estocado, Shelby 1 ; Neal, Morgan 1 ; Stafford, Tori 1 ; Meinen, Haley 1 ; Briers, Sarah 1 ; Spell, Rylie 1 ; Hughes, Shannon 2 ; Whitten, Mikayla 1
SB: Estocado, Shelby 1 ; Whitten, Mikayla 1
HBP: Briers, Sarah 1
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