’Roos take three of four from Colorado College
By Jeff Kelly, Sports Information Coordinator - Austin College Kangaroos
Mar 30, 2008
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SHERMAN – The Austin College softball team took three of four games in its weekend series with Colorado College, boosting their Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference record to 6-2.  The ’Roos also improve to 10-18 overall this year, already matching last season’s win total.  The six victories in conference are the most of any SCAC team so far this season. 

In the first game on Saturday the ’Roos built a 3-0 lead in the first inning and never looked back, adding a run in the second and two more in the third as they cruised to a 6-1 victory.  Ashley Johnson picked up the win for the ’Roos, striking out seven batters in 7.0 innings of work.  Carolyn Stone finished the game 2-for-3 with two RBI, a double and a stolen base. 

Austin College once again built a big lead in game two, plating six runs in the bottom of the second to get out to a 6-0 lead.  However, the Tigers started chipping away in the fourth with a run and added two more in the sixth to make it a 6-3 game, and they came all the way back with a three run seventh to send the game to extra innings. 

The ’Roos held the Tigers scoreless in the top of the eighth and Whitney Bodine came up with a walk off RBI single to score Stefanie Faith to give the ’Roos a 7-6 victory.  Johnson again picked up the win in relief, getting the Tigers in order in the eighth inning.  Bodine finished 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI. 

In the first game on Sunday the Tigers broke open a scoreless game in the top of the sixth to take a 1-0 lead, and after the ’Roos answered with a run of their own when Faith doubled home Kali Gossett to tie things up in the bottom half of the inning the Tigers plated three runs in the seventh to take a 4-1 victory.  Gossett finished the game 2-for-3 to lead the ’Roos. 

The ’Roos responded in a big way to the opening loss on Sunday, putting five runs on the board in the bottom of the first after the Tigers had gotten up 1-0.  Laci Hart and Faith each doubled in the inning, with Faith driving in a pair of runs as the ’Roos took a 5-1 lead. 

Two more runs came home in both the second and third innings to make it a 9-1 lead for Austin College, and Faith hit a bases clearing double in the bottom of the fourth as part of a four run inning to give the ’Roos a 13-1 win via the run rule. 

Faith had two doubles and four RBI and scored four times to lead the ’Roos, while Hart, Bobbi Schulle, Sam Smith, Stone, and Brittany Gaertner each had two hits.  Gaertner also picked up the win for the ’Roos, scattering five hits in 5.0 innings of work. 

Austin College athletic teams participate as a member of the NCAA Division III and the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. 

Austin College is a leading national independent liberal arts college located 60 miles north of Dallas in Sherman, Texas.  Founded in 1849, making it the oldest institution of higher education in Texas operating under original name and charter, the college is related by covenant to the Presbyterian Church (USA).  Recognized nationally for academic excellence in the areas of international education, pre-professional training, and leadership studies, Austin College is one of 40 schools profiled in Loren Pope’s influential book “Colleges that Change Lives.”