Eagles softball games go south

After having their 2020 season cut short, Eagles softball started their season with a series of games in Oklahoma, Sunday and Monday.  

Chadron State played four games against four teams: Pittsburg State University, Oklahoma Christian University, Cameron University and the University of Central Oklahoma. The Oklahoma teams dominated over the Eagles, finishing their first series, 0-4. 

Starting Sunday morning, Peyton Propp, sophomore of Lakewood, Colorado, pitched a run less first two innings with four strikeouts of the six outs. The Eagles, though also remaining scoreless, held the Gorillas to zero runs until the third inning, presenting the final score of the game, 5-0. 

CSC continued their weekend against a similar mascot, Oklahoma Christian University Eagles, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tia Kohl, junior of Wichita, Kansas, started the game as pitcher being followed by Propp, who closed the game for CSC. Oklahoma Christian brought in 12 runs, winning over CSC, 12-0. 

Following their scoreless Sunday, Chadron State played Cameron University in their first Monday game. The Eagles scored in their final inning, falling to Cameron University, 7-2. 

Propp started the game pitching the first two innings, pitching two strikeouts, but allowing four hits and four runs. Gabby Russell, junior of Oceanside, California, pitched the remaining four innings, allowing six hits and three runs. 

Bailey Marvel, sophomore of Lakewood, Colorado, and Bailey Rominger, senior of Vail, Arizona, moved runners around the bases and brought people in for runs in the final inning.  

When Marvel stepped up to the plate, she earned the first RBI for the season with a hit to left field, batting in Addison Spears, freshman of Berthoud, Colorado. Bailey Rominger hit past the second basemen to the right field, bringing in Ellie Owens, senior of Longmont, Colorado, to score the second run. 

For their last match in their Oklahoma series, Kohl and Propp made an appearance as pitcher and was joined by Russell who closed out the game against the University of Central Oklahoma. Kohl pitched two strikeouts and Russell pitched one. 

Russell accomplished another RBI in the batter’s box by clocking a hit down the right field line for a single and bringing Rominger in for a run. With the run, the Eagles lost by a difference of eight runs against Central Oklahoma, 9-1 

Due to cold weather predicted for Sunday, CSC will have their home openers against the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs starting noon Friday and 11 a.m. Saturday.