Middle Tennesee State University Athletics
Middle Tennessee
Trevecca Nazarene
Softball Wins Two of Weekend Fall Slate
10/1/2017 5:07:00 PM | Softball
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – The Middle Tennessee softball team rolled two more wins over the weekend. The Raiders defeated Trevecca 14-1 on Saturday and Columbia State 9-0 on Sunday.
Against Trevecca, MT scored 14 unanswered runs after the Trojans struck first. The Raiders accumulated 17 hits in the game with six being for extra bases. Dani Munoz hit the first fall ball home run for the Raiders. She smacked a three-run homer over the left field wall in the seventh inning.
Amber Baldwin, Cori Jennings, Pattie Ruth Taylor and Gretchen Greer all saw time in the circle, recording a total of seven strikeouts in the ten inning game.
Then on Sunday versus Columbia State the Raiders scored eight quick runs to grab ahold of the game from the get go. The squad had 16 hits, three for extra bases and in the field committed no errors for the first time this fall.
Greer, Taylor and Baldwin combined for the ten innings in the circle. The trio struck out 12.
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"We played well against Trevecca. We pitched well, only giving up one run. They scored first on us but we played well. I don't like that it took us until the sixth inning to get going and scoring but we were able to still hit the ball hard and unfortunately Trevecca was just able to make some plays those first couple of innings. We have to start doing a better job of scoring early to take the pressure off our defense. We played good defense again today and that helped us in scoring runs late. We scored a lot of late runs today but when we got going we got going and we hit it hard and got a lot of hits. I am just pleased with the way our kids come to the park everyday ready to go. They practice hard and it shows when fans come out, they'll want to come back because we put a good quality team on the field and kids that hustle and want to win. Dani had a nice home run today, she hit it hard and a long ways, really stroked it. Morgan almost had one too, it just hit the fence and was just a little short." – Head Coach Jeff Breeden on the Trevecca game
"We came out of the gate really good and scored a lot of runs early. We had good base running early but I think we kind of got lackadaisical as the game went on and after the fifth inning lost focus a little bit. So we've got to learn and grow a little bit and learn we are playing against the game and not an opponent and keep doing our own things. I think we went to sleep a little bit in the late innings but we played great defense all day and our pitcher threw well again. I think at this moment in the fall we're exactly where we need to be and we get better every time out." – Head Coach Jeff Breeden on the Columbia State game
WHAT'S NEXT?
The Raiders will return to the Blue Raider Softball Field to face Volunteer State on Sunday, Oct. 8 at 2 p.m.
