LOCAL SPORTS
CSC SB DROPS TWO TO WNMU
By John Axtell
Mar 10, 2010 - 7:26:43 PM

     The Chadron State softball team was dominated by Western New Mexico in a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference doubleheader Wednesday in Silver City, New Mexico.

      The Eagles...who'd split a pair of games with the Mustangs on Tuesday...saw both Wednesday games called after 6 innings on the mercy rule 11-2 and 10-2.
     WNMU improved to 3-1 in the RMAC and 7-9 overall. Chadron State slips to 1-3 in conference play and 4-9 overall.

       One big inning did in the Eagles in both games. In the opener, Chadron State led 2-1 in the 4th inning on a solo homer by Cassie Humphrey and an RBI double by Katelyn Moore, and was down just 3-2 in the bottom of the 5th when the bottom fell out.

      The Mustangs bunched together 5 hits and batted around against pitchers Christina Lewis and Kate Pinder, scoring 6 runs. They ended the game with one out in the next inning on a 2-run homer by Aimee Vasquez.

      Brittany Shannon picked up the win, giving up just 5 hits while striking out 6. Lewis...who gave up 7 runs, 6 of them earned, took the loss. Humphrey was the only Eagle with 2 hits.

      In the second game, the big inning for Western New Mexico was the 6th. The Eagles had chopped a 4-0 deficit in half the previous inning on an RBI double by Allison Hendricksen and a single by Katie Bolin when the hosts pulled out the big lumber.

    The Mustangs plated 6 runners in the 6th...half on a 3-run homer by Kristina Barr that was followed by a solo homer from Kaitlynn Barnes. A pair of CSC errors brought home the final two runs that invoked the mercy rule with the last run coming just before a tag out at third base that would have sent to the game to the 7th inning.

     Mustangs' pitcher Emily Huhta improved to 3-0 on the year as she limited the Eagles to 8 hits and 2 runs while striking out 4. Cassie Humphrey took the loss, giving up 8 of the WNMU runs.

      Humphrey, Bolin, and Hendricksen all had 2 hits on the day while WNMU saw Barnes, Micaela Miller, and Brittany Batten all go 5-8. The Mustangs outhit the Eagles in the doubleheader 32-13.

     Chadron State has 2 more RMAC doubleheaders on their Spring Break road trip, Friday and Saturday against Fort Lewis.

     They were to be in Durango, Co, but snow has forced the Skyhawks to move their games about 45 miles south to Farmington, NM, although a  scheduled Wednesday doubleheader with Mesa State was snowed out there, too.

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