NASHVILLE – The ULM softball team extended its winning streak to five Saturday after posting wins over host Tennessee State and Evansville Saturday at the Tiger Classic inside Tiger Softball Field.
ULM 4, Tennessee State 3
Freshman Casey Waterman earned her first win of the season after pitching four innings in relief in ULM's first game Saturday which resulted in a 4-3 victory over host Tennessee State at Tiger Softball Field.
Junior Rochelle Roberts reached first on an infield single and stole second to start the game. Senior Faith Bohack then advanced Roberts to third on a groundout before freshman Sydney McKay drove her in on a single to left field, giving the Warhawks (7-2) an early 1-0 edge.
The Tigers (2-6) responded with a run of their own in the bottom half. After junior Courtney Gearlds led off with a single to right and advanced to second on a Katlynn Kaminski wild pitch, redshirt junior Joselynn Yates brought her home on a single up the middle to tie the game at one apiece. Later in the inning with runners on first and second, senior Lauren Dreitlein singled up the middle which was supposed to score Yates. McKay, however, disallowed that run by throwing Yates out at the plate.
ULM was unable to bring home sophomore Hunter Hogan in the second after she hit a two-out double to left field and advanced to third on a wild throw. On the other hand, TSU scored in the bottom half of the second on a two-out single from junior Danica Gleason which put the Tigers ahead 2-1.
The Warhawks regained the advantage in the top of the third when Bohack scored Roberts on a double to right and junior McKinley Marks plated junior Vanessa Garcia on a single to left center, putting ULM ahead 3-2 after two and a half innings.
Waterman then took the mound for ULM and did not allow a hit until the seventh inning.
The Warhawks scratched an important insurance run on a wild pitch in the sixth as the Tigers also scored one in the seventh on an RBI triple from Gearlds. Junior Melanie Coyne then entered to retire the final two batters and earn her first save of the season.
ULM 15, Evansville 0 (five innings)
Seniors Amye Barre and Faith Bohack drove in four runs each and junior Melanie Coyne tossed a complete game, one-hit shutout in ULM's 15-0 win over Evansville Saturday night at Tiger Softball Field.
ULM (8-2) scored at least one run in four of the five innings played and scored six in each of the final two innings. Evansville (6-2) was kept off balance throughout the game and only managed one hit, a one-out single by freshman Tess Hupe in the bottom of the fourth, during Coyne's masterful performance.
Coyne struck out four batters and threw 51 of her 75 total pitches for strikes.
Seven different Warhawks had an RBI and Barre recorded a double and a homerun en route to her four RBIs. Sophomore Cheyanne Lyon went 3-3 with a triple and Roberts filled up the stat sheet with two hits, two walks, three runs, an RBI and two stolen bases.
The Warhawks return to action tomorrow versus East Tennessee State in a 9:30 a.m. first pitch inside Tiger Softball Field.
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