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Texas Tech Sweeps Doubleheader from North Texas
April 14, 2006 | Softball
April 14, 2006
DENTON, Texas - The Texas Tech softball team swept both game of a doubleheader with North Texas on Thursday at Denia Park, improving the team's overall record this season to 18-24. The Red Raider took the opener by a score of 8-2 and continued their winning ways in the nightcap of the twin bill with a 3-1 victory.
In the first game, Tech pounded out eight runs on 12 hits and was led by sophomore Jennifer Corkin, who drove in three runs -- including two with her second home run of the season, a two-run shot in the fourth inning.
Juniors Brandy Moulin and Ashley Parker also stood out in the contest as each player collected three hits and drove in two runs.
Red Raider starting pitcher Erin Crawford picked up the win to improve her record to 11-10 this season, limiting the Mean Green to only one unearned run on two hits in five innings of work.
Tech came out of the gate hot in game two of the doubleheader; scoring two runs in the top of the first inning, the first on a RBI single off the bat of Corkin and the second a fielding error by UNT.
Senior pitcher Julie Hauck was effective for the first 5 2/3 innings of the contest, limiting the Mean Green to only one run on eight hits while striking out seven batters.
After UNT cut the Red Raider lead to 2-1 with a score in the bottom of the sixth, pinch hitter Alex Watkins regained the two-run advantage for the Red Raiders with a two-out RBI single up the middle in the top of the seventh.
Crawford, who entered the game in relief of Hauck in the sixth, recorded the final four outs of the ballgame to earn her fourth save of the season.
Texas Tech continues its Big 12 season this weekend as it travels to Lawrence, Kan., to square off against the Kansas Jayhawks in a two-game series at KU's Arrocha Ballpark.
