March 25, 2005
Box Score
NORFOLK, VA -- The Norfolk State softball team took both ends of a doubleheader with visiting Maryland-Eastern Shore on Friday afternoon at the NSU Softball Field. The Spartans, who have now won three in a row, took the first game 5-2 and the second 9-6.
In game 1, Micki Rodriguez got the win, pitching a complete game, allowing nine hits and two runs while striking out three.
NSU (7-16) took a 2-0 lead in the second. Jennifer Morrison doubled and later scored on a wild pitch. Ashley Archer, who singled to get on base, later scored on a squeeze bunt by Cassandra Petway.
UMES (3-11, 2-4 MEAC) cut its deficit to one on an RBI triple by Jennifer Wilson (Princess Anne, MD/Washington) in the fourth, but the Spartans answered with three runs in the fifth.
Erica Tillar and Archer each went 2-for-2 in the first game for the Spartans. Wilson and Marlee Johnson (Stouffville, Ontario/Newmarket)each had two hits for the Lady Hawks.
In game 2, NSU lost a two-run lead, then had to rally from four runs down to take the win. Outfielder Lenore Heron put the Spartans ahead in the first with a two-run triple. Neither team scored in the next three innings, but UMES exploded in the top of the fifth, notching six runs on seven hits and one NSU error in the inning. Johnson hit a two-run double, Ashley Jones (Salisbury, MD/Parkside) had a two-run single, and Wilson and Jenille Edwards (Brampton, Ontario/St. Thomas Aquinas) each hit an RBI single.
But NSU jumped right back into the lead with five runs in the bottom of the fifth. Byrne, Tillar and Morrison hit run-scoring singles in the fifth, and two more runs scored on a two-out UMES error to give the Spartans a 7-6 lead. They added two insurance runs in the sixth, with Byrne and Heron hitting RBI singles.
Priscilla Weidner was 3-for-4 with three runs scored and three RBI in the nightcap. Heron, who also got the win by pitching three innings in relief, was 2-for-3 with three RBI.
Wilson, Johnson and Edwards had two hits each in the second game for UMES.
Portions of this story taken from the Norfolk State Media Relations Official Release.
