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Tech Softball Drops No. 17 SWT 13-6
February 01, 2002 | Softball
Feb. 1, 2002
San Marcos, Texas - Bobby Reeves' return to Bobcat field was a sweet one as his Red Raiders downed 17th ranked Southwest Texas State 13-6 in the fifth game of the B&G Properties Tournament.
Tech (1-1) sent 10 hitters to bat in the fifth inning scoring four runs topped off by Esmerelda Perez's three-run triple. Lisa Lawler started the offensive onslaught with a double followed by Britney Stolle's single. After Tiffany Harrington struck out senior Rebecca Eimen was hit by a Stephanie Blair pitch setting up Perez's base-clearing hit.
Freshman Jennifer Vaught making her first start on the mound went 5.2 innings allowing six Bobcat runs, all of which came after Tech was leading 9-0.
SWT (1-1) looked to get back in game in the 5th when Leslie Sharp homered to start the inning after a pair of flyouts Ashley Wilson's homer made the score 9-2. In the sixth the Bobcats tacked on four more on three singles and a double.
Tech answered in the top of the seventh as Eimen led off the inning with a homerun to left. The Red Raiders would score twice more in the inning giving it a 13-6 lead.
Freshman Kristina Blair who had entered the game in the fifth pitched 1.1 innings and recorded three strikeouts to get the save.
"We just came out swing the bats," was key to Tech's success according to coach Bobby Reeves. "Vaught did well until she got tired, and Blair did an outstanding job pitching one and a third inning with three strikeouts."
In the win Tech lost junior catcher Ashley Ready to a dislocated knee and is out for two weeks.
Tech will play two more games tomorrow night at Bobcat field as it takes on Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (0-2) at 4 and Houston (2-0) at 6.
