Softball Splits Two With ECU

March 15, 2007

ADA, Okla. – Southwestern Oklahoma State University gained its first Lone Star Conference North Division win with an 8-0 shutout victory Thursday against East Central University. The Bulldogs were 2-1 losers in game two and now stand 1-5 in North Division play. SWOSU is 9-13 overall this year.

In the first game, April Nash provided the big hits and Alex Zukerman cruised on the mound.

Nash’s bases-loaded single that scored two was part of a six-run third in which the Bulldogs sent 11 players to the plate, five getting hits.

Nash added an RBI single in the fourth and pushed SWOSU further ahead at 8-0. She finished two-for-three with three RBI’s and one run scored.

Zukerman scattered five hits and struck out four batters to collect her first shutout of the season. Her record now improves to 5-3. She got out of a bases-loaded jam in the fourth when she fanned the final batter of the inning.

In the second game, SWOSU managed just one run off ECU pitcher Amanda Boyce. Nash reached on an error and then scored when Teryn Mazurkewich followed with a triple in the top half of the second.

ECU scored the go-ahead run in their half of the second when Jessi Kohout drew a bases-loaded walk to put the Tigers ahead 2-1.

The Bulldogs had chances to tie or take the lead on other occasions, twice getting runners to third base. However, each time Boyse buckled down and protected the one-run lead.

The two teams will play again Friday in Weatherford. First pitch is set for 2 p.m.