Softball: ASU, SE advance to Super Regionals
It will be an all-Lone Star Conference Super Regional as Southeastern Oklahoma and Angelo State each won their respective regional championship games on Sunday.
SE topped Missouri Western 5-1, while ASU beat Nebraska-Omaha 6-4 to set-up the third meeting this season between the two teams. The Rambelles have won both previous contests by one run.
The three-game series for a spot in the finals starts Friday with game one at 7 p.m. in San Angelo, Texas. The second contest will be at 4:30 p.m. Saturday with the ‘if-necessary" game to follow.
SE 5, MWSU 1
Missouri Western State (47-12) took a 1-0 lead in the first inning, but Southeastern (53-11) scored five unanswered runs to earn the 5-1 win.
Kristi Goins paced the Savage Storm, going 2-for-4 at the plate with a pair of RBI, while Bailey Mathes, Erika Bernal and Jennifer Morales each drove in a run.
In the circle, Marjorie Johnson moved to 26-5 with a complete game victory, allowing a run on two hits, both in the first inning, with 12 strikeouts.
Offensively for the Griffons, Mandie Nocita led off the contest with an infield hit and Shannon Pivovar doubled to drive her in accounting for MWSU's two hits and one RBI.
Allison Jones fell to 26-6 on the season, allowing four runs, three earned, on five hits with one K. Jonnelle Belger tossed 0.1 innings, allowing a run on two hits and facing five batters.
ASU 6, UNO 4
Senior Macy Baker hit a pair of home runs as the No. 4-ranked Angelo State softball team (46-8) downed Nebraska-Omaha, 6-4, Sunday in the title game of the NCAA Division II South Central Region Tournament in San Angelo.
Baker opened the scoring in the top of the first with a two-run
shot to leftfield, scoring freshman Sandy James, to give ASU a
quick 2-0 lead. The Rambelles extended its lead to 3-0 in the top
of the third on an RBI single up the middle by sophomore Alix Dean,
scoring James.
UNO (45-17) plated a run in the bottom of the third
on single by Lindsey Slocum, scoring Treighton Yates. However,
the Rambelles took back a three-run cushion in the next inning as
junior Nicole Smith stole second and third and would score on a
errant throw by Maverick catcher Kristi Meneely.
The Mavericks would then plate three runs in the bottom of the
fourth to knot the game, 4-4. Yates would draw a bases-loaded walk
to start the scoring and Molly Feichtinger plated another run
on an infield single and UNO would even the contest on a
Rambelle throwing error on the play.
Angelo State would take the lead for good in the top of the fifth
on Baker's second home run of the game, a solo shot with one
out. The long ball was Baker's third of the weekend and 15th of the
season. The Rambelles added an insurance run in the top of the
seventh on a bases-loaded two-out single to centerfield by junior
Megan Pumphrey, scoring freshman pinch runner Jasmaine Moore.
Junior right-hander Chelsea Nelson (28-4) picked up the victory in
relief of starter April Haywood. Nelson tossed the final 3.1
innings and did not give up a run on three hits with a strikeout.
Haywood gave up three earned runs on four hits in 3.2 innings of
work.
Baker ended the game 3-for-3, adding a double in the third inning,
with three RBI and two runs scored. She ended the weekend 14-of-16
from the plate with seven RBI and five runs scored. Pumphrey went
2-for-4 with an RBI.
For UNO, Slocum (15-4) was handed the loss after tossing the
first six innings and giving up five earned runs on seven hits with
four strikeouts. Yates ended the game 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run
scored.















