Offense rolls in weekend finale

Sunday, February 17

Jacksonville, Fla.

9 a.m.

South Dakota State University

6-4

College of Charleston

5-4

South Dakota State

Col. of Charleston

Photo by: Laura Mullen

2/17/2019 11:36:00 AM | Softball

Box Score

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Jackrabbit softball team racked up a season-high 15 hits and closed its weekend stay at the UNF/Dolphin Invitational with a 9-4 victory over the College of Charleston Sunday morning.

South Dakota State (6-4) saw all nine starters record a hit for the second game this season, as Baily Janssen paced the offense with a 3-for-3 effort, two RBIs and a walk.

Erin Mullen drove two runs in, while Julia Andersen, Ali Herdliska and Lyndsey Crist had multi-hit performances.

Taylor Compton started and threw 3.2 innings with four strikeouts. She allowed three runs on four hits, exciting in the fourth for Kendra Conard. Conard earned her first win of the season in relief, allowing one run in the final 3.1 frames with two hits, two walks and a pair of strikeouts.

Scoreless through one, the Jackrabbits jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the second, using six consecutive two-out hits to build the early advantage. Allison Beaudry and Crist started the rally with singles, followed by a Mullen double to the left-center gap to empty the bases.

Janssen's single put runners on first and third, and Peyton Daugherty sent Mullen home with a single through the left side. Yanney Ponce closed the scoring burst with an RBI double to center.

Charleston rallied with a three-spot in the bottom of the fourth, using a leadoff solo home run and three consecutive two-out doubles allowed the Cougars to draw back within one (4-3).

The Jacks regained momentum and a healthy advantage in the next frame, though, answered the Cougar rally with a big inning of their own. Andersen (single) and Herdliska (walk) reached safely to open the frame, but after a line-out and fielder's choice, SDSU was left with runners on first and second with two gone.

Crist restarted the offense, however, with an RBI single through the left side, and after Mullen was hit by a pitch to load the bases, Janssen brought two runs in on an infield single and Daugherty put SDSU ahead 8-3 with a single up the middle for the final run of the inning.

SDSU tacked on one more in the seventh, as Janssen sent her third hit of the day into left to send Allison Yoder home. Yoder entered as pinch-runner earlier in the inning for Mullen, who reached on an error and stole second to get in scoring position.

Charleston loaded the bases and scored one in the seventh, but that was it as the Jackrabbit defense got the final out to leave the Sunshine State on a high note.

Up Next
South Dakota State is in action next weekend (Feb. 22-24) at the Central Arkansas Invitational in Conway, Arkansas. The Jackrabbits will play five games over the three-day event.

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