May 9, 2010

Box Score

BOONE, N.C. - Western Carolina softball (10-43, 2-21 SoCon) ended the 2010 season with a pair of losses at Appalachian State (27-25, 11-12 SoCon), falling 7-0 and being narrowly edged 6-5 in the final game. Because of the Southern Conference only taking four teams to the softball conference tournament this season, both teams end its season with the pair of games.

After being shutout by the Mountaineers, in the first game 7-0, the Catamounts scored the most runs of the series in the third inning of the second game. After being down 2-0, after starting pitcher Chere Monday yielded a run in the first and one in the second, Western Carolina exploded for three runs in the top of the third inning.

Senior left fielder Kristen Gay led off the third inning wit a single past third base. Freshman Haley Pace followed with a single of her own and Gay scored off an RBI single by Missy Wills to center field. During the play, Pace scored on a Mountaineer error and Wills moved to second. Freshman Shemekia Scotten hit a hot shot to the left field wall plating Wills for the third run of the inning.

Monday tossed a scoreless fourth inning before the Mountaineers rallied for three runs in the fifth inning to take a 5-4 lead. In the fifth, Monday was replaced by Katie King who tossed the final two innings of the game.

In the top of the sixth, Western Carolina scored a run to tie the game at five. With the game tied, King became the pitcher of record. With two outs, freshman Jordan Fulton picked up her third hit of the game, a double to left field and on a single by Kristen Gay to right field.

The Mountaineers answered yet again in the bottom of the sixth inning. Megan Rembielak hit an RBI single to give Appalachian State the lead and the win.

Monday allowed four runs, three earned, on eight hits and struck out one. King, who took the loss and falls to 2-24, allowed two runs on four hits and also struck out one.

Along with Fulton, Gay was the other Catamount to have a multiple hit game with two. Fulton ends the season with 54 hits which ties her for seventh for most hits in a career and finishes the season with 16 stolen bases, holding the single-season record.

The first game was all Appalachian State. The Mountaineers had seven runs on six hits. Western Carolina had just two hits in the game, one by Fulton and one by Gay. Freshman Amber Steinhardt started the game, on the mound, and falls to 7-16. Steinhardt went two innings allowing six runs, three earned, on two hits. Monday came in to the game in the third inning and went four innings allowing one run, on four hits, and struck out two.