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Drake 7, Tulsa 2
Shelby Estocado extended her hitting streak to 12 games, but Drake topped Tulsa, 7-2, on Thursday night at the Collins Family Softball Complex in the home opener for the Golden Hurricane. Estocado went 1-for-3 and singled in her final at-bat in the bottom of the seventh to extend the streak.
Julia Hollingsworth also went 1-for-3 to push her hitting streak to 11 games, while
Morgan Neal went 3-for-4 at the plate for the Golden Hurricane (12-8), who saw its seven-game winning streak come to an end. Meanwhile, Sarah Maddox homered for the Bulldogs (13-7) and Kailee Smith allowed a run over five innings for the victory.
ECU 4, Longwood 3
Leah Powell scored the game's first run after doubling to lead off the top of the third inning and scoring on a Pirate error later in the frame. ECU answered in the bottom of the fourth when freshman outfielder
Tyler King doubled and crossed home plate on a Longwood error a batter later. The Pirates took the lead in the bottom of the fifth with a leadoff home run off the bat of redshirt sophomore infielder
Tate McClellan. Senior infielder
Meredith Burroughs made it a 3-1 contest in the bottom of the sixth, providing an insurance run with her team-leading fifth home run of the campaign. Longwood rallied to tie the score in the top of the seventh, taking advantage of a leadoff walk and using a two-run blast by Powell to send the game to the bottom of the seventh knotted at three. McClellan doubled with one out, setting up two-out heroics by junior outfielder
Ashley Weingartz who found the gap in left center and plated pinch runner
Abigail Umphlett for the walkoff victory.
ECU 4, No. 23 JMU 1
The teams traded runs in the second inning with redshirt senior catcher
Alex Mycek hitting her first home run of the season and Kiersten Roadcap tying the game with a RBI single in the home half of the frame. McClellan gave the Purple and Gold the lead for good in the top of the fourth, smashing a long home run to left center. She put the Pirates ahead even further in the top of the sixth, clubbing a two-run shot to extend the lead to 4-1. Redshirt junior RHP
Ashley Cruise worked out of a pair of jams brilliantly in the sixth and seventh innings, earning her second save of the campaign.
Upcoming Schedule - March 9
| Villanova at USF |
2:00 p.m. ET |
| Drake vs. UConn |
2:30 p.m. ET |
| Green Bay at Tulsa |
3:00 p.m. ET |
| UCF vs. Chattanooga |
4:15 p.m. ET |
| Army at USF |
4:15 p.m. ET |
| UCF vs. Saint Joseph's |
6:30 p.m. ET |
| Arkansas-Pine Bluff at ECU |
6:30 p.m. ET |
| Lipscomb at Houston |
6:30 p.m. ET |
| Miss. Valley State at Memphis |
6:30 p.m. ET |
| UMKC at Tulsa |
8:00 p.m. ET |
| BYU at ECU |
9:00 p.m. ET |