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Alexis Silkwood will take the field today and pitch for the first time this season. I am so glad to see her recovered and ready to get going before SEC play. I decided to make a new thread for this game!!!
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Alexis Silkwood will take the field today and pitch for the first time this season. I am so glad to see her recovered and ready to get going before SEC play. I decided to make a new thread for this game!!!
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C - Katie Anne Bailey
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2B - Emily Heimberger
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SS - Kayla Winkfield
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3B - Caroline Seitz
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DP - Mackenzie Toler
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RF - Sarai Niu
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1B - Morgan Bell
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LF - Loryn Nichols
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CF - Amanda Ivy
Top of the 1st
Silkwood opens the season with a K
1 down, no score
But hits the next batter
1 down, runner on 1B
6-4 for out number 2 but throw for double play not in time
2 down, runner on 1B
F-2 in foul territory ends the frame
Mid 1st, no score
Bottom of 1st
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Bailey with her 6th double of the season to leadoff the Bulldogs
no outs, runner at 2B
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Heimberger is the team's leading hitter so far this season
Goes back to the pitcher 1-3 but moves Bailey to 3B
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Winkfield bunts for a hit
1 out, Ladies on corners
Winkfield SB
1 out, runners at 2B and 3B
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Seitz HBP
1 out, bases juiced
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Toler, BB scores the first run
1 out, bases load, 1-0 Doggies lead
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Niu F-8, Winkfield tags and scores
2 outs, runners on 2B and 3B, State leads 2-0
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Bell BB, also happens to get away from catcher, scoring runner from 3rd
2 outs, runners at corners, good girls no ahead 3-0
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Nichols will face a new pitcher
BB loads all bags
ETA: ^^^^This
was actually Olivia Golden who was subbed for Nichols in the bottom half of the 1st
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Ivy, HBP scores Toler
2 outs, bases juiced, State leads 4-0
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Bailey K but not before Bulldogs take a 4-0 lead into the 2nd inning
Top of the 2nd
WKU leads of with a BB
no outs, runner at 1B
Sac Bunt 5-3
1 out, runner at 2B
K
2 outs, runner at 2B
Grounder 6-3 ends the frame
Mid-2nd, Bulldogs ahead 4-0
Bottom of the 2nd
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Heimberger grounds out 1-3
1 down
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Winkfield, same
2 down
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Seitz BB
2 out, runner at 1B
Seitz caught stealing to end the inning with Bulldogs still ahead 4-0
Top of the 3rd
3-2 count on leadoff batter, then backwards K
1 out
Second batter of the inning leads WKU in getting struck out!
And she does not disappoint, Backwards K for...
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Cassady Knudsen who has taken over for Silkwood
2 down
3-2 count, looking for out #3, but BB puts runner on 1B
2 down, runner at 1B
I'm not sure why they pulled Silkwood and I only recently noticed it as you see above. Maybe the feel the game is more or less in hand and are still being careful with her.
On that note, Knudsen gets another K, striking out the side to end the frame. Mid-3rd, Bulldogs lead 4-0
Bottom of the 3rd
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Mackenzie Toler
F-8 warning track
1 out
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Sarai Niu
out at 1st on a bleeder a few feet in front of the plate
2 down
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Morgan Bell
F-4 ends the inning with State still leading 4-0
Top of the 4th
Leadoff batter grounds out to Bell at 1B
Batter HBP
1 down, runner at 1B
4-6 gets the lead runner on a hard hit one hopper but throw to 1B not in time for a double play
2 down, runner at 1B
2 wild pitches move runner to 3B
Winkfield then flashes some leather with a prostrate snag of a line drive, then tosses over to 3B to get the Bulldogs out of the fram
Halfway point, Bulldogs 4, Hilltoppers 0