Huskies and Cougars sneak past Jacks

Saturday, March 27

Edwardsville, Ill.

10 a.m.

South Dakota State University

Northern Illinois

3/27/2010 6:00:00 PM | Softball

By: SDSU Sports Info

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - The South Dakota State softball team dropped a pair of one run games on Saturday on the first day of the Cougar Classic, falling to Northern Illinois 7-6 in the morning and 2-1 to the host SIU-Edwardsville in the evening.

The losses drop the Jackrabbits to 8-17 overall heading into Sunday's action, when the Jacks play the same two teams again.

SDSU scored its six runs against Northern Illinois on 13 hits and led 5-4 after six innings, but the Huskies plated three runs on the top of the seventh, while the Jacks scored just one.

The Jacks left a total of 13 runners on base in the loss, eight of them in scoring position. Six different Jackrabbits finished the day with two hits, including Ashley Durazo, Dani Broshar, Krista Honken and Tina Winter, who all added a single RBI. Andrea New also knocked in a run and went 1-for-2 at the plate with a pair of walks.

Kori Seidlitz got the start for the Jacks and pitched all seven innings, giving up all seven runs on 10 hits with four walks and four strikeouts. She falls to 7-10 on the season.

Pam Nicholson pitched the second game of the day and gave up just two runs, both unearned, on four hits with four strikeouts and no walks, but the offense only provided her with one run, a solo homerun by Broshar in the second inning.

Broshar's third homerun of the season held up until the bottom of the fourth, when the host Cougars used a pair of hits and an SDSU error to tie the game at 1-1. They took the lead two innings later the same way, with two hits and one Jackrabbit miscue.

Broshar finished the day 1-for-3 at the plate with the homerun, Emily Heairet also went 1-for-3, while Durazo finished the day 3-for-3.

SDSU tries again on Sunday against both teams, starting with NIU at 10 a.m. and SIUE at noon.