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Weber State softball splits day two in Colorado
3/4/2012 4:18:00 AM | Softball
FORT COLLINS, Colo - For the second straight day, the Weber State University softball team earned a split at the Colorado State Classic.
The Wildcats knocked off St. Mary's, Calif., 8-0 in a five-inning, run-rule win, before falling 8-0 to Northern Iowa in six innings in the second contest of the day.
In the day's opening win over the Gaels, which avenged an 11-2 loss during Friday's action, the Wildcats scored in all five innings as senior Sarah Clark improved to 5-4 on the season, earning a complete-game shutout with four strikeouts as she faced just three batters over the minimum.
Weber State recorded 11 hits, with four players recording multiple hits. Clark, along with fellow seniors Symbree Minniear and Lyndsey Minnich each went 2-for-3, and each recorded two RBIs in the contest.
Minnich's two RBIs upped her total this season to 28, which is a new single-season record for the Wildcats, dating back to the program's original inaugural season in 1975.
Senior Erika Dixon was 2-of-4 with an RBI and a run scored. Minniear was one of three Wildcats, joining sisters Cydnee Clarke and London Clarke, to hit a double in the contest.
The Wildcats scored one run in each of the first two innings, and then added two runs in the third, fourth and fifth to build up the eight-run lead, and then closed things out with a play at the plate.
In the second game, the Wildcats' bats struggled to get going, earning just two hits in the contest.
The Panthers, who avenged a 12-10 loss to the Wildcats in Friday's play, led 1-0 through the first three innings before scoring seven over the fourth, fifth and sixth to close out the game an inning early.
Clark and senior Kami Holley each recorded a hit in the game.
Weber State will close out its three-day stay in Fort Collins when it takes on tournament host Colorado State at 11:15 a.m. on Sunday. The Rams are 1-1 in tournament action, but have had two games suspended late due to darkness.
