Saturday's MAC Softball Results
Saturday's MAC Softball Results
Morehead State 6,
Bowling Green 5
Niagara 4,
Bowling Green 1
Central Michigan 10, St. Bonaventure 0
Central Michigan 8, Mercer 0 (6 Inn.)
Buffalo 7, Tennessee State 1
Nicholls State 3,
Buffalo 1
Alabama State 9,
Eastern Michigan 7
Troy 13,
Eastern Michigan 2 (5 Inn.)
Toledo 5, Massachusetts 4
Youngstown State 4,
Toledo 3
Southern Mississippi 17,
Ball State 1 (5 Inn.)
No. 25 South Alabama 8,
Ball State 0 (6 Inn.)
Chattanooga 6,
Akron 3
Bethune-Cookman 3,
Akron 2
Kent State 4, Middle Tennessee State 3
Kent State 7, Michigan State 2
Recaps Courtesy of MAC Athletic Communications Departments
Morehead State 6, Bowling Green 5
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Niagara 4, Bowling Green 1
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The Bowling Green State University softball team opened the 2016 season on Saturday (Feb. 13), suffering a pair of losses at the CSU Dome Invitational in Cleveland, Ohio. The Falcons dropped a 6-5 heartbreaker to Morehead State University, then fell to Niagara University by a 4-1 count.
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Central Michigan 10, St. Bonaventure 0
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Central Michigan 8, Mercer 0 (6 Inn.)
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The Central Michigan softball team defeated St. Bonaventure, 10-0, and Mercer, 8-0, Saturday in the Mercer Invitational. The Chippewas (2-2) will play Pittsburgh (4-0) Sunday at 2:15 p.m. in the title game.
CMU fell to the Panthers, 2-0, in their tournament opener on Friday, when they also lost to Mercer, 5-3. The Chippewas had just 10 hits in those two games, but rebounded to collect 23 hits - including four home runs - in their two Saturday wins.
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Buffalo 7, Tennessee State 1
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Nicholls State 3, Buffalo 1
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HAMMOND, LA – The University at Buffalo, The State University of New York softball team picked up its first win of the 2016 season on Saturday as the Bulls defeated Tennessee State 7-1 this afternoon. UB then dropped its second game of the day to Nicholls State 3-1. The Bulls are 1-3 on the year.
UB got an outstanding pitching performance from freshman Lace Smith, who picked up her first career win. The Bulls got on the board with an RBI groundout from Katie Weimer in the top of the first and Tennessee State tied it up with a home run in the bottom half of the inning, but Smith then retired 12 of the next 13 batters.
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Alabama State 9, Eastern Michigan 7
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Troy 13, Eastern Michigan 2 (5 Inn.)
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TROY, Ala. (EMUEagles.com) - The Eastern Michigan University softball team dropped a heartbreaking extra-inning game versus Alabama State University before falling to Troy University on day two of the Trojan Invite, Feb. 13. An early lead slipped away from the Eagles (0-4) in game one as Alabama State (1-2) came back in the eighth inning to walk-off with a 9-7 win. In game two, the Trojans (3-0) handed EMU a 13-2 setback in five innings.
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Toledo 5, Massachusetts 4
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Youngstown State 4, Toledo 3
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Charlotte, NC – The Toledo softball team kicked off the 2016 campaign with a doubleheader split on Saturday at the Charlotte First Pitch Classic hosted by the University of Charlotte. UT started its day out with a 5-4 victory over UMASS, then fell 4-3 to Youngstown State. The Rockets (1-1) are scheduled to play another game on Sunday vs. host Charlotte at 1:30 p.m.
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Southern Mississippi 17, Ball State 1 (5 Inn.)
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No. 25 South Alabama 8, Ball State 0 (6 Inn.)
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GULF SHORES, Ala. - - The second day of the Sand Dollar Classic was a rough one for the Ball State softball team, which was unable to find its rhythm at the plate or in the circle in losses to Southern Miss and 25th-ranked South Alabama Saturday afternoon at The Fieldhouse in Gulf Shores, Ala.
“There is no getting around it, today was a rough day at the park,” first year head coach Megan Ciolli Bartlett said. “We need to get sharper in every facet of the game. The premise of this program is we are built around tough players who are unfazed by days like today. Now we need to go out there and prove that is exactly who we are. We will have a solid game plan ready for UAB tomorrow and we will go at them.”
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Chattanooga 6, Akron 3
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Bethune-Cookman 3, Akron 2
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Clermont, Fla – The Akron softball team falls just short of a ninth inning comeback against Bethune-Cookman, 3-2, and went just 5-for-25 from the plate in the Zips early afternoon contest but could not bounce back from an early deficit falling to Chattanooga, 6-3, in Clermont, Fla., Saturday afternoon.
"If we start doing what we practice, we will win. I thought Nicole gave us an opportunity to win the second game but we keep taking ourselves out of it by making mistakes," said head coach Julie Jones. "If we can clean that up and start putting the ball in play, score some runs, do what we do in practice we will be just fine."
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Kent State 4, Middle Tennessee State 3
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Kent State 7, Michigan State 2
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FORT MYERS, Fla. – Kent State scored 9 of its 11 runs in two innings as it moved to 4-0 after a pair of wins on the second day of the FGCU Kickoff Classic. The Golden Flashes rallied to beat Middle Tennessee, 4-3 in the afternoon and then took care of Michigan State, 7-2, in the nightcap that ended shortly before midnight.
Kent State outhit its opponents, 18-11, on the day. Seniors Michele Duffy and Arika Roush led the way with three hits each, while sophomore Holly Speers and freshman Bailey Brownfield had two hits apiece. Brownfield had a team-high three RBIs and Roush drove in two runs and was hit by pitches on three occasions.
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