Jacks pound out 18 hits in 10-2 win

Wednesday, March 24

Jackrabbit SB Stadium

4 p.m.

South Dakota State University

Dakota State

3/24/2010 7:00:00 PM | Softball

By: SDSU Sports Info

The South Dakota State softball team pounded out a season-high 18 hits, highlighted by a two run homerun from Krista Honken, in a 10-2 win over Dakota State on Wednesday in the earliest home opener in SDSU softball history.

The Jackrabbits, who won via the eight-run rule on a Brianna Postma sacrifice fly with one out in the sixth, improve to 8-15 with the win. The loss drops the Trojans to 2-7 on the season.

Honken led the Jackrabbit attack with a 2-for-4 day at the plate with a trio of RBI, two of which came on her second homer of the season, part of a four run SDSU fourth inning.

Kelsey Lunn went 3-for-4 in the win with an RBI and two runs scored. Dani Broshar finished the day 2-for-3 with a double, two RBI and two runs scored, including the game winner on Postma's sac fly.

Kori Seidlitz got the start for the Jacks in the circle and got the win to improve her record to 7-9 on the season. She pitched five innings, giving up two runs, one earned, with four walks and eight strikeouts.

The Jacks started hitting early with three hits in the first, but only managed to plate one of those runs on a Lunn single that scored Devon Reick.

Three more hits followed in the Jacks half of the second, but they did not score, as DSU's Laura Shanafelt snagged a hard-hit liner by Ashley Durazo at second and doubled up Andrea New at first.

Both the runs and the hits came in the bottom of the third though, as the Jacks scored four runs on five hits with the benefit of one Trojan error. Morgan McCabe knocked in a run with a single that scored Broshar, with Lunn scoring on an error. That left just one on for Honken, who put the Jacks up 5-0 with her two run blast to straightaway center field.

Dakota State scored two runs on two hits in the fifth to make it a game, but the Jacks got one back in the bottom of the fifth and then put the game away with four in the sixth.

The Jackrabbits return to action this weekend at the Cougar Classic in Edwardsville, Ill., with two games each scheduled against Northern Illinois and host SIU-Edwardsville.