LUBBOCK – Abilene Christian softball dropped an 8-0 determination to Texas Tech in six innings Wednesday evening at Rocky Johnson Area.
The Pink Raiders have now received 11 of their final 12 video games and head to Austin this weekend to battle the eighth-ranked Texas Longhorns, whereas the Wildcats come dwelling for a WAC sequence vs. Southern Utah. Sport instances are 2 p.m. (DH) and midday at Poly Wells Area.
ACU’s Riley White went the gap on 105 pitches with three strikeouts, together with two of proper fielder Carson Armijo. She moreover punched out catcher Kailey Wyckoff as a part of a scoreless first, which additionally included catcher Avery Miloch gunning Makinzy Herzog out at second base.
White went on to strand a runner at second within the second, and was an out away from escaping the third when No. 3 batter Arriana Villa blasted an reverse area shot to left area. Villa later drove dwelling the game-clinching run on her fielder’s option to first base.
White started the third with two outs on 4 pitches, getting Demi Elder on a grounder to quick and and Herzog on a comebacker. Wyckoff, nonetheless, saved the inning alive for Villa with a gentle popper up the center.
The Pink Raiders tacked one other run on within the fourth, and pushed their result in 5-0 within the fifth because of Ellie Bailey’s two-out, two-run homer. Bailey – who has homered in six of her final seven video games – at the moment leads the Pink Raiders with 11 round-trippers.
Texas Tech has 57 dwelling runs as a crew his season, that are 9 shy of its single-season file.
The Pink Raiders ended the sport because of four-consecutive one-out hits within the sixth. White began the body hanging out Armijo, however three-straight singles made it a 6-0 rating, after which Wyckoff doubled dwelling Elder (7-0) and superior Riley Love to 3rd base.
Love was working on contact on Villa’s floor ball to first baseman Sammie Shelander, and safely slid behind the tag of Miloch.
ACU recorded bases hits in all however two innings, and was robbed defensively on a number of events.
Catrin Hoffman and Shelander took turns being fleeced by left fielder Peyton Blythe, whereas Olivia Taylor noticed her at-bat ended prematurely by Armijo, who made a working basket catch in the fitting area foul territory.
On the bottom paths, Gaspar was thrown out at third base, making an attempt to advance an additional base on the sacrifice hit by Bubba Rote.
Gaspar led her facet with two base hits and turned an unassisted double play at shortstop to get ACU out of the fourth inning. Taylor, Hoffman and Mckenley Clark all registered singles as effectively.
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