Texas Tech University Athletics
Tech Wraps Up Spring Klein College Classic
October 14, 2007 | Softball
Oct. 14, 2007
SPRING, Texas - Texas Tech softball concluded the final day of the Spring Klein College Classic Sunday with a 5-4 win over Blinn College and a 4-0 loss to Texas State. The Red Raiders finished the three-day tournament with two wins, two losses and a tie to conclude their fall season.
The Spring Classic is an annual fall tournament that invites more than a dozen college teams to the Houston area for a weekend of games. As with other fall games, these games are not officially recognized by the NCAA. Wins and losses do not count on a team's record and official stats are not recorded.
It was a pitchers duel early in the contest with the Bobcats Sunday morning. Neither team managed much offense through the first two innings. TSU came alive in the third by scoring three runs on a pair of doubles and then added an unearned run in the fourth to cap off its scoring. Tech was unable to muster the offense it needed off a stingy Bobcat defense and fell 4-0. Four Red Raider players had one hit apiece, while Alex Watkins pitched two innings of hitless ball in relief.
The action was back and forth in the Red Raiders' afternoon contest with Blinn. Tech got on the board in the top of the first after Leah Legler came across on a single from Whitney Riley. The Buccaneers responded with a run of their own in the bottom of the inning to even the game and then got two more on a pair of singles in the second. The Red Raiders put one on the board in the third off a Riley homerun to cut it to 3-2.
Blinn added its final run in the bottom of the inning on an RBI double to make it 4-2, before Tech scored two more in the bottom of the inning to even the score. Amanda Myers put the final run on the board in the sixth with a long blast over the left field fence. Sarah Losleben kept the Buccaneers off the board to give the Red Raiders the 5-4 victory.
Saturday's action saw Tech battle perennial-Top 25 Louisiana Lafayette to a 6-6 tie in the morning. Jaimee Stinson went 2-3 with a homer and an RBI to lead the Red Raiders offense against the Ragin' Cajuns. In the afternoon, it was Southern Mississippi, who also knocked of perennial-power Texas during the weekend, that got the best of Tech in a 6-0 defeat. Jennifer Corkin led the way in that one by going 2-3 with a pair of singles.
The Red Raiders opened the weekend Friday night with a 3-2 win over Galveston after spending the entire day on the road.
With Tech's fall action now in the books, it will continue to practice before the 2008 season officially begins in February.
