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Red Raider Softball Thumps Mizzou 9-1
April 22, 2000 | Softball
April 22, 2000
LUBBOCK, Texas - The Texas Tech softball team ended a three-game losing streak with a 9-1 victory over the Missouri Tigers this afternoon at the Texas Tech Recreational Intramural Fields. The game was shortened to five innings due to the conference eight-run rule. Tech improves to 15-30 on the year, 4-6 in the Big 12.
Senior Paula Workman added an exclamation point for the Red Raiders with her two RBI, which put her in first place on the Texas Tech all-time career RBI list with 108. Workman surpassed Kim Martinez' old mark of 107.
Workman started the scoring in the first inning when she singled up the middle with the bases loaded to score Sandy Butler from third base. Another run would score in the inning when Amanda Douglas hit a sacrifice to score Lynsey Haij from third.
The Red Raiders took advantage of a pair of Tiger errors in the second and scored two more runs. This time the runs came courtesy of a throwing error by Mizzou shortstop Linda Swarts that allowed Eva Harshman to score from second, and an RBI single off the bat of Shauna Briggs.
Briggs would come up big again in the fourth inning when she slammed a two-run homer over the left field fence to make the score 6-0. Mizzou scored a run in the top of the fifth but Tech came back to add three more runs in the bottom of the inning. This time Workman drove in a run with a sacrifice fly to right field. The next batter was Amanda Douglas who doubled past the outstretched glove of a diving Stacy Gemeinhardt in centerfield. The double drove in Haij and Briggs to end the game.
The two teams battle again Sunday afternoon a 1 o'clock at the Intramural Fields.
