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 Sarah Teller drove in the tying run in the top of the seventh. |
March 11, 2007
Kissimmee, Fla. - The Wayne State University softball squad (4-3) suffered an extra inning setback, 4-3, to Southwest Minnesota State on Sunday in the Rebel Spring Games.
Junior Lindsey Perry (Taylor, Mich./Kennedy) went 3-for-4 at the plate and scored a run.
The Mustangs scored an unearned run in the bottom of the second on a leadoff single, a passed ball and a fielding error.
WSU pushed across the equalizer in the top of the seventh on a single by Sarah Teller (Chesterfield Twp., Mich./L'Anse Creuse North).
In the top of the eighth, using the international tie-breaker, Amanda Van't Wout (Guelph, Ont./Guelph Collegiate V.I.) was placed on second and scored as Stephanie LeClair (Kitchener, Ont./Forest Heights C.I.) reached on an error. LeClair made it 3-1 as she scored on a two-out single.
SMSU tied the contest on a two-run, two-out home run in the bottom of the eighth, and tallied the winning run on a double, three batters later.
Freshman hurler Nicole Abel (Kitchener, Ont./St. Mary's) took the loss for WSU as she allowed four runs - two earned - in 7.2 innings. She walked one batter and struck out seven.
