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Tech Softball Beats OSU, 6-5
May 11, 2007 | Softball
May 11, 2007
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma - Texas Tech posts its third consecutive win over Oklahoma State and its fourth win overall to improve to 22-26, give head coach Teresa Wilson her No. 800 career victory and move into the second round of the Big 12 tournament. Once the game ended, however, the rains began to pour and the second game of the day for Tech, which will pit the Red Raiders against the No. 1 seed Baylor, is very much in doubt.
Tech was behind, 5-1, entering the sixth inning when freshman left fielder Leah Legler singled and stole second. She scored on a double by third baseman Brandy Moulin who then scored when right fielder Whitney Riley blasted her first home run of the season, to make the score, 5-4. (Corkin had hit a first-inning home run.)
In the bottom of the sixth, and with two outs in the books, Ashley Parker got aboard on an error by the OSU second baseman, Sadie Krywicki and scored on a smashed double by pinch hitter, sophomore Alex Watkins.
In the eighth, Corkin singled and was lifted for pinch runner Danielle Matthews. Moulin drew a walk. Riley grounded into a force (Matthews out at third) and then second baseman Amanda Myers drew a one-out walk. Robyn Wike, who had already singled and been aboard on a hit-by-pitch earlier in the game, stepped into the box and promptly knocked a single into left field scoring Moulin with the, 6-5, winning run.
Ashly Jacobs (15-14) went the distance for the Red Raiders as the freshman right hander scattered seven hits and gave up only one earned run. She walked three and struck out three.
The four consecutive wins matches a season high and one has to go back to the 1998 season to find four consecutive wins over Big 12 opponents.
Immediately following the game, the stadium was cleared as rain moved into the Oklahoma City area. A downpour began shortly after the conclusion of the first games and it would have taken a fairly significant act of God for it to have begun at 7 p.m!
GAME TIME FOR THE MATCHUP WITH BAYLOR IS PREDICTED TO BE 8:15 P.M.
