Memphis swept a doubleheader over Alcorn State and UCF topped FIU to highlight softball action around The American on Wednesday.
No. 181/9 UCF defeated FIU, 8-3, at Felsberg Field at the FIU Softball Stadium on Wednesday evening. UCF improved to 30-5 overall while connecting on a season-best 13 hits in the win while FIU dropped to 20-15 with the loss. Linnea Goodman recorded a career-high four hits in five at-bats and scored a pair of runs for the Knights. Kahley Novak batted in a team-high two runs, while Samantha McCloskey drew a game-high three walks. Senior Mackenzie Audas earned her 15th win of the season in the circle. She recorded her ninth game with ten or more strikeouts, fanning 10 in seven innings.
Lindsay Crowdus set the program record for career triples and extended her reached-base streak to 18 games as the Tigers swept a doubleheader over Alcorn State Wednesday evening at Tiger Softball Complex. The Tigers run ruled the Braves 8-0 (6) in the opener and 10-2 (5) in the nightcap. Memphis moved to 11-15 with the pair of wins, while Alcorn State dropped to 2-15 with the losses. In the bottom of the second inning of the first game, Crowdus lined a hit into left center, racing around the base paths for her 10th career triple, breaking Heather Mott’s mark of nine she set in 2007-2011. She also plated two runs. Crowdus added an 11th triple in walk-off fashion as she cleared the base paths to score three runs in the bottom of the fifth of the second game.
Houston split a pair of games with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC). The Cougars were nipped 4-2 in game one and defeated the Islanders 9-8 in walk-off fashion in game two. As the teams split the doubleheader, Houston moved to 17-17 on the season while TAMU-CC dropped to 7-20-1 on the year. A total of seven home runs between the two schools in game one. Three of those were by Cougars (Kris Davila - 2; Sydney Gerbracht - 1). Davila went 3-for-3 in game two with two home runs while Gerbracht hit her first HR of the season and the eighth of her career. Game two's walk-off win is the third of the season for the Cougars.
East Carolina fell in a pair of games to UNC Wilmington, 2-0 and 5-1.