The Fort Hays State softball team pushed their winning streak to five games after knocking off Central Missouri twice on Friday afternoon at Tiger Stadium. The Tigers won by scores of 6-1 and 8-2 to improve to 16-6 (4-0 MIAA) on the year.
Game 1: Fort Hays State 6, Central Missouri 1
The Tigers used a four-run second inning to take command of the first game on their way to the victory. Amanda Vaupel, Chelsey Rottinghaus and Madison Putman all singled to load the bases for Christine Moses, who came through with a two-run single of her own. Putman and Moses would both come around to score on wild pitches by UCM and give the Tigers the 4-0 lead.
Central Missouri scored their only run in the third inning and FHSU responded with one run in both the fourth and fifth innings. Wright had an RBI single in the fourth to score Taylor Nelson and Putman hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth to bring in Vaupel.
Maddie Holub had another strong outing in the circle for FHSU, allowing four hits and just one run as she pitched her 12th complete game of the season. Holub struck out 11 UCM batters, giving her 141 for the season, and improved to 9-4 on the year.
Game 2: Fort Hays State 8, Central Missouri 2
FHSU scored a run in both the first and second innings before getting two three-run innings later in the game to put the Jennies away in the second game. Vaupel hit an RBI single in the first inning while Nelson added one in the second to put the Tigers ahead 2-0 after two.
Nelson added an RBI double in the fourth, scoring Yasnaya Susoeff before Wright hit a sacrifice fly and Holub hit an RBI single to make it 5-0 going into the fifth inning. Central Missouri scored there two runs in the top of the fifth, making it 5-2.
Nelson struck again in the bottom of the sixth. Moses and Kellsi Olsen both reached to start the inning and came in to score on Nelson’s fourth home run of the season. Nelson finished the game with three hits and four RBI while Holub recorded a hit in all four of her at-bats.
Abby Morrison started the game and pitched the first five innings for the Tigers, picking up her first win of the season. Morrison allowed six hits, but allowed just two runs in improving to 1-1 on the season. Holub pitched the final two innings of the game, picking up her third save on the year, which ties the single-season school record at FHSU.
Fort Hays State will be at home again Saturday with a doubleheader against Southwest Baptist starting at 1pm.
– FHSU Sports Information –