Blossoms On Six-Game Losing Streak
with Two Losses to Saint Leo
February 9, 2008
SAINT LEO, Fla. –
The University of Arkansas at Monticello softball team lost its
final two games in Florida before returning home with two losses to
Saint Leo with final scores of 3-0 in the first game and 7-6 in the
second game.
GAME ONE (L 3-0)
Saint Leo only allowed two Blossom hits. Junior Lindsey
Randall (Keithville, La.) and junior starting pitcher Becca
Sustaire (Hallsville, Texas) were responsible for both of those.
Randall went 1-for-3 at the plate, while Sustaire went 1-for-1 after
reaching base on a walk in her only other at-bat.
Sustaire (0-3) recorded her third loss in as many games after
pitching a full six innings, giving up all three runs off six hits,
while striking out three batters.
GAME TWO (L 7-6)
The Blossoms produced their largest amount of runs in the
second game of the twinbill, scoring six runs off nine hits, but in
a losing effort, as Saint Leo racked up 10 hits.
Senior Meredith Heckel (Hot Springs, Ark.) blasted her second
homerun of the season with a bases-empty shot to lead off the top of
the third inning.
The Blossoms put three more runs on the scoreboard in the top of the
fourth. The first run crossed the plate when senior Kate Brady
(Longview, Texas) hit an RBI single down the right field line to
score senior Gemma Gibson (Dodd City, Texas), who led the
inning off with an infield single.
Senior Lauren Brooks (West Monroe, La.) followed with an RBI
double to right center field that scored Sustaire, who reached on a
base hit. The two back-to-back run producing at-bats forced Saint
Leo to make a pitching change.
Junior Amy Mardis (Burnet, Texas) capped off the scoring in
the inning with an RBI single that scored Brady.
The Blossoms reached the scoreboard one more time in the top of the
seventh inning when Gemma Gibson sent a shot to deep right field
that allowed her to get all the way around the bases for a two-RBI
inside the park homerun that also scored Randall, who led off the
inning with a single down the left field line.
Recording the loss for the Blossoms was sophomore Alison North
(Marion, La.), who pitched 2.2 innings, giving up six runs (four
earned) off six hits, while walking one and striking out one of the
15 batters she faced.
ON DECK
With the two losses, UAM drops to 0-6 overall this season,
while looking to get its first win next weekend (Feb. 15-17) at the
Delta State Softball Classic in Tunica, Miss. The team’s first
competitor in the classic is the 2007 NCAA Division II National
Champions, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. SIU-Edwardsville
is currently ranked No. 1 in the nation.
