Carthage Softball Sweeps No. 20 Coe, 1-0 and 14-6, on March 21
Lady Reds Play Host to Lake Forest on Saturday
3/21/2010 7:17:14 PM
Kelsey Epping Improves to 4-0 vs. Coe on March 21
Game #1 Box Score
Game #2 Box Score
The Carthage College softball team (5-4, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) swept a doubleheader from No. 20 Coe College (6-5), 1-0 and 14-6, on Sunday, March 21 at Clark Fields in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
In the opening game, Carthage pitcher Kelsey Epping (Sr., Bloomington, Ill./Downs-Tri Valley, 4-0) twirled a six-hit shutout, all singles, while walking five and striking out 15 batters. Epping has not been scored upon, earned or unearned, in 33.0 innings to start the season. The Lady Reds scored the game’s lone run in the fourth inning. Stephanie Noel singled with one out, advanced to second on a fielding error, moved up to third on a single by Alyssa Schrader and scored on a single by Jenny Burke. Ashlee Simon (7-1) took her first loss of the year for Coe.
Carthage banged out 15 hits in the nightcap off three Kohawks hurlers. Carthage scored two runs in the first inning, three in the third and one in the fourth to take a 6-2 lead. After Coe tied the game, 6-6, with a four-run outburst in the sixth, the Lady Reds scored right times in the seventh inning for the final, 14-6 margin.
Alyssa Schrader (So., Plainfield, Ill./South) went three-for-four with a three-run homer in the third and a total of four RBI. Meghan Roman (Sr., Crestwood, Ill./Chicago-Marist) led off the game with a solo home run, added a double and went two-for-four with two RBI. Jacquelyn Tassone (Sr., Downers Grove, Ill./South) went two-for-four with an RBI, and Amy Slattery (Fr., Tinley Park, Ill./New Lenox-Providence Catholic) drove in two runs. Lady Reds Pitcher Krystina Leazer (Fr., Des Plaines, Ill./Elk Grove, 1-1) was the beneficiary. Leazer went the distance in the seven-inning game and allowed all six runs, only two earned, on six hits and no walks. Pitcher Ashlee Simon started the second game for Coe but gave way to Katie Kramer (1-1) in the fourth.
The Lady Reds open at home on Saturday, March 27 by playing host to Lake Forest College (8-4) in a 1 p.m. twinbill at the Carthage Softball Field.
Did You Know...
Coach Brady Lindsley
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Kent Dernbach
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First NFL Playoff Game
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