[Eoscstudents] SOFTBALL GAME RESULTS FROM SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, Feb. 27th./Feb. 28th:

[Andy Mace]

Hello:
After having two tournaments cancelled and having 17 total games 
cancelled or postponed, due to bad weather,  the Lady Mountaineer 
Softball finally got to play some spring games:
It was not ideal situations as we squeezed our way into existing 
festivals in EARLY morning hours:
Leaving campus at 4:30 am on Saturday we played two games in the Murray 
Festival:

FIRST GAME: Eastern 4   Murray 0   9am game time
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Kelsey Reding, sophomore pitcher  from Aubrey, Texas,  pitched a 2 
hitter and struck out 12 to get her first win on the new season.
Offensive leaders include: Megan Cody, freshman second baseman from 
Tulsa Memorial, with two hits, two stolen bases, and scoring two runs. 
Liz Cecil, freshman catcher from Wilburton, with two hits including a 
double off the fence, and two rbi's.
Erica Love, freshman from Preston, with three stolen bases as she stole 
second, third, and home, running for Cecil after her second hit in the 
third inning.

SECOND GAME:  Eastern 3  North Central Texas 2(North Central represented 
one of the Texas Regions in the NJCAA World Series last year)  11 am 
game time.
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Kelsey Reding wins her second game giving up only 3  hits, walks her 
only hitter in two games, and strikes out  seven against a STRONG North 
Central team.
Offensive leaders include: Ashlee Faries, freshman from Mesquite, Texas, 
with two hits including a run scoring double off the fence in left. 
Taylor Royall of Mesquite, Texas, had two hits, one a double. Rachel 
Powers, sophomore from Caddo Mills, Texas, had one hit and made several 
good catchers in centerfield to help Reding. Cody had one hit and made 
two great plays on hard hit ground balls at second.

Leaving campus at 5:30am on Sunday we played in the  Northeast Texas 
Festival  at Mt. Pleasant, Texas.

FIRST GAME:  Northeast Texas 1   Eastern 0   11am game time.
 
Kelsey Reding throws great game but loses in  bottom of seventh with two 
outs  on a bloop hit to left field on a check swing,  only the fifth hit 
in the game for Northeast.   Eastern could only manage two hits off the 
left-handed ace from Northeast, Texas.
Kaylee Bowman, freshman outfielder  from Lone Oak, Texas, and Cecil 
provided the only Eastern hits. Eastern had runners on first and second 
in the top of the seventh with nobody out; but,  a couple of 
questionable umpire calls took Eastern out of the inning. Northeast was 
playing their 15th. game of the new season.

SECOND GAME:  Crowder, Missouri 6   Eastern 2   1pm game time.

Emily Gaulden, sophomore from Ethel, Louisiana, starts this game and 
pitches three good innings, and was relieved in the fourth by Emily 
Giles, sophomore from Celeste,Texas. Eastern had two run lead thru 3 and 
1/3 innings off the Missouri Region representative in the NJCAA World 
Series last year and Crowder is nationally ranked 10th. in the NJCAA 
pre-season poll this season. The early lead was due largely to the LONG 
home run Ashlee Faries hit 25 feet over the foul pole to left field, her 
first round-tripper of the year. Eastern was held to 3 hits off two 
outstanding Crowder pitchers. Crowder has outstanding pitching for a 
junior college and has great overall team speed. Crowder had played 
several games in the Houston and El Paso areas previous to the Northeast 
Festival.

The Lady Mountaineers run their early season record to 2-2.  Next games 
for the softball ladies would be Western HERE in OCAC conference games 
this coming Friday and Saturday. Two games each day, starting at 1pm on 
Friday and noon on Saturday. If our field is not playable by those dates 
we intend to play at Red Oak High School.

Thank you, Andy Mace, Lady Mountaineer Softball