Eagles split Monday’s double-header
Photo by Kinley Q. Nichols
Krista Gleiforst, 24, junior of Fort Collins, Colo., tagged Nikki Ritzen, 20, freshman of Chadron, out while Ritzen slid into third base during Monday’s first game against the Yellowjackets. The Yellowjackts won the first game 4-1, then the Eagles beat the Yellowjackets 11-6 for the second game.
Chadron State Softball hosted Black Hills State Yellowjackets for a double header on Tuesday.
The Eagles now sit with a 13-16 overall record for the season.
Chadron lost the first game 4-1 but came back and won in the second game 11-3.
The Eagles and Yellowjackets started slow for the first three and a half innings.
In the fourth inning CSC scored a run and had two hits with one runner left on base.
CSC’s Stephanie Hellman, senior of Rapid City, S.D., hit a home run to give the Eagles the 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth inning.
In the fifth inning, the Yellowjackets scored 2 runs to take the lead 2-1 with one hit, one error, and one left hit on base.
The Eagles did not score for the rest of the game.
BHSU scored twice more, once in the sixth and again in the 7th to finish the game 4-1.
In game two, the Yellowjackets scored in the first inning off of a single to left field.
In the third inning, Jamie Mazankowski, junior of Kearney, hit a home run to give the Eagles the lead, after freshman Nikki Ritzen scored off of a double by senior Cassie Humphrey, both of Chadron.
The Eagles ended the third inning with four hits and a 4-1 lead.
BHSU scored 2 more runs in the fifth to bring the score to 4-3.
CSC scored 7 runs in the sixth, which ended the second game with an 11-3 victory over the Yellowjackets.
The Eagles head to the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs to play the Mountain Lions at noon Friday.
The Mountain Lions hold a conference record of 5-12 and an overall season record of 8-18.
This will be the Eagles’ nineteenth and twentieth games in for the conference.
The team sits with a 9-9 RMAC conference record.