The Colonels fell to Southland Conference Opponent Texas A&M Corpus Christi 3-2 on Tuesday, April 15, at Swanner Field in Thibodaux.<\/p>\n
The Colonels (25-18, 13-7 SLC) played the first two games of their series against the Islanders (11-33, 5-15 SLC). In the first contest the Colonels run ruled the Islanders 10-1 in five innings. The second game turned much more competitive.<\/p>\n
Head Coach Ron Frost said that games like these feel good but with a conference opponent you can never expect it to be easy.<\/p>\n
Game Two<\/p>\n
The game was a defensive showcase with pitcher Sierra Ouellette leading the way pitching a scoreless game through the first five innings. The Colonels were unable to score in the first four innings.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the fifth, star infielder Erin Krause hit a single that brought in Laylin Sturm to give the Colonels the 1-0 lead. Krause then scored a run after an error in the outfield, giving the Colonels a two run lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cI looked up and I saw her fumbling the ball around and at such a crucial time in the game, I just went for it,\u201d Krause said of advancing home on the error.<\/p>\n
The Islanders responded in the top of the sixth inning. With runners on second and third base, Karisa Lopez hit a single to right field that brought in Natalie Garcia and advanced Mackenzie Durr to third base; cutting the Colonel lead to one.<\/p>\n
A sac fly by Kayla Santiago to center field brought in the game tying run from Durr and allowed Lopez to advance to second base. Erynne Castillo hit a single to right center field that scored a run from Lopez, giving the Islanders a 3-2 lead going into the bottom of the sixth inning.<\/p>\n
Islanders pitcher Kendra Winfrey picked back up on her good night, pitching a scoreless inning; forcing two ground outs and a pop out. The score stayed the same entering the top of the seventh inning.<\/p>\n
The Colonels changed pitchers, replacing Ouellette with Ashley Little. After a pitch hit a batter and a second batter was walked, Frost replaced Little with Averi Paden. Paden immediately began working, forcing a line out to third base. She then forced back to back ground outs to get out of the top of the inning with no runs scored.<\/p>\n
The Colonels needed a timely hit to come in the bottom of the last inning. Unfortunately, they were unable to find a spark; Sturm hit a fly out to center field, Claire Sisco grounded out to second base and finally Carmella Muccilli struck out swinging to close out the game, Islanders win 3-2.<\/p>\n
Frost said that beating a team twice in a row is never easy, especially a conference opponent. \u201cIt\u2019s like I said you just can\u2019t underestimate a team like that regardless of record and all that, especially when somebody knows your program well and you play so many games against each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Colonels and Islanders are scheduled to play in the final game of their series on Wednesday, April 14, at 11 a.m. at Swanner Field.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told my girls they\u2019re going to bounce back and I appreciate the way that they fought, you can\u2019t win them all and that\u2019s why it\u2019s a series. And they\u2019re resilient; they know that softball is the ultimate game of the day,\u201d Frost said.<\/p>\n
The Colonels look to bounce back with a win to cap off the series against the islanders and boost their standings in the Southland Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colonels fell to Southland Conference Opponent Texas A&M Corpus Christi 3-2 on Tuesday, April 15, at Swanner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-251046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}