Doubles Records Fall in Pink Sweep

Wednesday, April 29

Jackrabbit SB Stadium

3:00 PM

South Dakota State University

Dakota State (Pink Out)

4/29/2015 9:05:00 PM | Softball

By: SDSU Sports Info

In the final home at bat in her career, South Dakota State senior Elyse Eitel broke the school's single-season doubles record at 18, then came around to score in the next at bat to give the Jackrabbits their second walk-off win of the day, as the Jacks swept Dakota State with a 13-5 win in Game 1 and a 9-1 win in Game 2.

SDSU won the opener in five innings and the nightcap in six innings to improve to 22-24, while the Trojans end the day with a 5-36 record. Both teams wore pink in the game to raise money and awareness for breast cancer.

Along with the individual single-season doubles record falling, the Jacks hit eight two-baggers on the day to set the team doubles mark with 74, eclipsing the previous record of 71, set in 2004.

The Jackrabbits fell into a 3-0 hole in the opener, but bounced back with eight runs in the third inning to go up 8-3, highlighted by a pair of two-run home runs from Alyssa D'Agostino and Cassidy Vlot. Jessica Markanich also hit two doubles in the inning.

SDSU added three more runs in the fourth, including a Devan Larsen home run, which extends her single-season record to 15, and a Danielle Steffo RBI single to make it 11-3 Jacks after four innings.

The Trojans got two back in the top of the fifth, but an Eitel home run and an unearned run from Larson ended the game via the run rule.

Katie Lang got the win in the circle to improve to 2-1 on the season. The sophomore gave up five runs, three earned, on seven hits, with seven strikeouts and two walks.

SDSU scored two runs each in the first, second and third innings of Game 2, starting with a pair of unearned runs in the first to go up 2-0 early.

Vlot led off the second inning with an opposite field home run, and got the second run on a Markanich RBI single that scored Jordyn Sturgeon to give the Jacks a 4-0 lead.

Both runs in the third came off the bat of Vlot, as the starting pitcher helped her own cause with a two RBI triple that gave SDSU a 6-0 lead after three innings.

DSU got one in the fourth, and after a scoreless fifth, the Jacks finished the game off in the sixth. D'Agostino started the two out rally with and RBI single up the middle that scored Steffo. Eitel's record-breaking double came next, which moved D'Agostino to third, setting the table for Larson, who delivered the walk off single through the left side of the infield, as both D'Agostino and Eitel scored to end the game.

Along with her 2 for 3, 3 RBI game at the plate, Vlot earned the win in the circle, going all six innings with one run on six hits, with six strikeouts and one walk to improve to 2-0 in the season.

Larsen led the Jacks at the plate with a 6 for 8 effort on the day, with a three singles, a double, triple, home run, four RBI and four runs scored. Vlot finished the day 4 for 6, with five RBI on double, triple and two home runs.

The Jackrabbits take their eight game winning streak to Vermillion on Saturday, when they close the regular season with a three game series at South Dakota. The series starts with a doubleheader at noon, followed by a single game on Sunday at 11 a.m.