HOMERS POWER SDSU PAST WIU

Sunday, April 10

Brookings, S.D. | Jackrabbit Softball Stadium

12:00 PM

South Dakota State University

26-9, 0

Western Illinois

7-25, 0

Western Illinois

South Dakota State

4/10/2022 5:39:00 PM | Softball

Box Score

For the third time this weekend, South Dakota State softball won by a run-rule shutout over Western Illinois. The Jacks needed only five innings Sunday for an 8-0 victory at the Jackrabbit Softball Stadium.

SDSU hit five home runs in the game, matching the school record for homers in a single game in the Division I era. All eight Jackrabbit scores were driven in via a home run.

Cheyanne Masterson hit her second and third home runs of the weekend, one in the second inning to put the Jacks on the board and another in the fourth to wrap up the scoring, both solo shots. Cylie Halvorson homered in the third inning for the 2-0 lead, followed by multi-RBI home runs for Rozelyn Carrillo and Lindsey Culver. Carrillo's home run also plated Daugherty while Culver's homer also drove in Halvorson and Caelyn Christiancy.

Tori Kniesche struck out 11 batters in five innings of work, one strikeout shy of her career high, while only allowing one hit. All three outs in the second inning were by strikeout and the Leathernecks went down in order in the third and the fourth.

As a team SDSU tallied 10 hits, led by two each from Carrillo, Halvorson, Masterson and Allison Yoder.

The Jackrabbits ended the series outscoring the Leathernecks 26-0 in only 16 innings of action.

Abrianna Gracia had the only hit for Western Illinois. Savannah Rodriguez takes the loss.

NOTES

SDSU improves to 26-9 on the season and 7-2 in the Summit League.
Tori Kniesche moves to 11-5 on the year.
Tori Kniesche has nine 10+ strikeout games this season.
The Jackrabbits earned their first Summit League series sweep of the season.
The Jackrabbits matched the program's single-game home runs record of five, which was set against Dakota Wesleyan in 2015.
Cylie Halvorson has 10 home runs on the season, putting her on pace to break her own school record of 19.
Cylie Halvorson has 31 career home runs, good for third on SDSU's all-time chart. Ali Herdliska owns the record with 48 career homers.
Cheyanne Masterson, Lindsey Culver and Rozelyn Culver each have seven homers on the year.