Surviving third round, Weatherford run-sales Santa Fe
May 17, 2013
STEVE JOHNSON, DIXIE STATE UNIVERSITY
ST. GEORGE, Utah – Ninth-seeded Weatherford (TX) needed just five innings to take care of #10 Santa Fe (FL) College, 9-1, to advance in the consolation bracket at the 2013 NJCAA Division I Women’s Softball National Championship tournament Thursday night at the Canyons Complex. Weatherford (50-7) will advance to face #11 seed Lake Land (IL) College in another elimination game Friday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. (MDT). Meanwhile Santa Fe (41-19-1) sees its 2013 tournament run and season end with the loss.
The Coyotes wasted little time taking control of the contest as they jumped out to a commanding 8-1 lead after three innings, scoring a single run in the first and two more in the second, before erupting for five tallies in the third. WC infielder Sydney Kramer delivered a two-run single as part of the decisive rally in the frame. Weatherford then plated the game-ending run on a bases-loaded error in the fifth.
The run support was more than enough for Coyote starter Kylie Studioso, who scattered one run and three hits in three innings of work with four strikeouts. Kramer finished with three hits and three RBI to lead the Coyotes offensively.
Santa Fe clean-up hitter Rachel Hoeft accounted for the Saints’ lone RBI, which came in the third inning.