University of North Texas
Troy
Softball Sweeps Troy In Doubleheader
4/28/2012 12:00:00 AM | Softball
Troy, Ala. (4/28/12) - The North Texas softball team swept Troy in a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at the Troy Softball Complex. The Mean Green won by scores of 3-0 and 4-1.
The Mean Green improves to 22-24-1 and 12-10-1 in the conference. The 12 wins ties a program best for most conference wins in a season. Troy falls to 31-19 and 10-11 in the conference. North Texas looks for the series sweep on Sunday, April 29 at 11 a.m.
Ashley Kirk pitched a three-hit shutout, and Brooke Foster posted four hits in the opening win. Brittany Simmons picked up a save in the first game and recorded her 10th win in the nightcap.
Kirk picked up her ninth win of the season in the opening game. She pitched six innings and allowed just three hits, while striking out five. Simmons pitched a perfect seventh inning to preserve the win and pick up her second save of the season.
Foster went 4-for-4 with two doubles and two RBI in the opening game. She recorded four of NT's nine hits in the game. She is the second player this season to post four hits in a single game and the third to hit two doubles in one game. It is the second time in her career that she has recorded four hits in a single game.
The game was scoreless until the fifth inning when Lesley Hirsch led off with a double. She advanced to third on a groundout and then scored off a Foster double.
North Texas added to the 1-0 lead in the seventh when Hirsch ignited the offense for a second time with a single. After Megan Rupp reached on a fielder's choice, Foster knocked in her second run with her second double and scored on a Trojan error.
Brittany Simmons picked up her 10th win of the season in the second game. She pitched a complete game, allowing one unearned run in seven innings of work.
Hirsch gave North Texas a 1-0 lead in the second game with an RBI single in the second inning. Ashley McCarroll scored after reaching base on an error. Troy responded by tying the game in the third with an unearned run.
North Texas regained the lead in the fifth with two runs off a Trojan error and an RBI by Lisa Johnson. McCarroll knocked in a run in the seventh inning with a single to give North Texas a 4-1 advantage.
Hirsch, McCarroll and Rupp combined for six of NT's eight hits in the second game. Hirsch also had an assist in the outfield, throwing out a Trojan runner trying to go home in the bottom of the sixth.
