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| Ashley Wallingford |
After being shut down by Missouri-St. Louis' Allyson DeFosset in the first game of Wednesday's doubleheader, Missouri S&T's Ashley Wallingford returned the favor in the nightcap to give the Lady Miners a split of the Great Lakes Valley Conference twinbill.
S&T took a 7-0 decision in the second game on Wallingford's three-hitter after DeFosset won the opener for the Tritons by a
2-0 count as she struck out 14 in a five-hit effort.
The Lady Miners got their first run of the day in the second inning of game two when Kristen Drage singled through the hole to drive in Emily Tucker, who had doubled to get the inning started. The Lady Miners loaded the bases prior to the hit by Drage and still had them loaded with nobody out, but couldn't push another run across.
However, Wallingford -- who faced just two batters over the minimum -- kept the Tritons off the scoreboard and the offense gradually extended the lead until it busted the game open in the sixth.
Becca Kueny's homer to the opposite field in the fourth made it 2-0, the S&T added a run in the fifth when Kelsey Musselman scored on a wild pitch.
In the sixth, the Lady Miner outburst started with a leadoff walk to Kueny. After a sacrifice bunt, Kandi Wieberg walked and a wild pitch allowed Kueny to move to third. Wieberg stole second, then an error on a slowly hit ball by Rachel Wilkinson allowed Kueny to score.
Musselman's sacrifice fly made it 5-0, then Tucker belted a home run to left center to close the scoring.
Tucker had three of S&T's six hits in the second game.
In the first game, the Lady Miners threatened in the opening inning when Musselman and Tucker got hits with two outs, but DeFosset struck out Drage to get out of the inning.
The Tritons got all the runs they needed in the second on a two-run single by Carly Maddock with two outs in the inning. UMSL got four of its seven hits off S&T pitcher Jen O'Hara in that inning.
DeFosset set down 10 straight Lady Miners in one stretch and finished with the 14 strikeouts, getting at least one in every inning.
Coley Naughton had two of S&T's five hits in game one. O'Hara finished with five strikeouts in the circle.
The Lady Miners (20-15, 11-5 GLVC) will take a break from GLVC play over the next week as it will play in the Jennies Invitational Saturday and Sunday in Warrensburg, Mo. S&T will take on Missouri Southern at 4 p.m. and host Central Missouri at 6 p.m. Saturday, then face those teams again Sunday at 2 and 4 p.m.
Missouri S&T will then host Drury in a non-conference doubleheader April 17 at 2 p.m. before returning to the league circuit two days later at Southern Indiana.
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