Saturday, February 22
Corpus Christi, TX
10:30 AM
University of North Texas
11-2
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Texas Southern
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7
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North Texas
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Texas Southern
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Softball Caps Second Consecutive 4-0 Weekend
2/22/2020 5:24:00 PM | Softball
CORPUS CHRISTI – The North Texas softball team capped off their second-consecutive unbeaten weekend with a pair of wins on Saturday at the Islander Invitational. The Mean Green (12-2) took wins over Texas Southern (3-9) and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (3-9) on Saturday to close out the weekend.
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"I thought we played with some energy today," head coach Rodney DeLong said. "We were pretty good at the plate, our pitchers threw well again today, we played good defense and we were just good all the way around today."
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The Mean Green pitching staff continued their dominate weekend by only allowing two runs on eight hits through the two games.
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"Coach Jamie Allred does a great job with our pitchers," DeLong added. "They do a great job, they support each other and they work hard. It's good to see, we have multiple arms that can beat anybody."
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North Texas will be back in action on Tuesday when they host UTA at Lovelace stadium before hitting the road for a big weekend in Norman at the Courtyard Marriott tournament hosted by the no. 3 Oklahoma Sooners.
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Game One – North Texas 6, Texas Southern 1
Freshman Ariel Thompson started the day with the best outing of her young career. The Claremore, Oklahoma native recorded her first career complete game while registering a career-high 12 strikeouts.
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The Mean Green offense got started with a Hanna Rebar triple to right field, the second of her career, she would scamper home on a passed ball three batters later. North Texas would go stale on offense until the fourth inning.
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Rebar would start the inning off by being hit by a pitch before Katie Clark sacrifice bunted her to second. Candain Callahan would follow up Clark with her first career triple to plate Rebar before being driven in by a Nicole Ochotnicki sacrifice bunt.
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North Texas would add a run in the fifth on a Tayla Evans RBI single before adding another in the sixth after Clark tripled before scoring on an errant throw by the Lady Tigers. A Tayla Evans double in the sixth would add the final run of the game for the Mean Green, plating Kourtney Williams who reached on an infield single.
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Thompson would surrender her only run of the game in the seventh after a double followed an error in the field, but the freshman would end any further threat to preserve the best start of her young career.
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Game Two – North Texas 7, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 1
The Mean Green fell behind for the first time this weekend in the first inning against the Islanders after a pair of singles, and would not respond offensively until the fourth inning.
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Bailey Tindell got her second start of the weekend and was able to hold the Islanders at bay after their first inning run, only allowing five base runners through the next 3.2 innings. Hope Trautwein would take over with two outs in the fifth and surrender just two hits the rest of the way.
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North Texas' offense would give Trautwein her sixth victory of the season with a six-spot in the fifth inning. The Mean Green plated four runs before recording an out started off by a Saleen Donohoe double, she would score on a Rebar single before a Clark single and Islander error plated Evans. A Callahan single would then plate Rebar and Clark before a Nicole Ochotnicki single put runners at the corners and force a pitching change.
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A Camille Grahmann ground out would drive in Callahan before Donohoe reached on a fielder's choice with the bases loaded, plating Ochotnicki. Trautwein would then shut down the Islanders the rest of the way to preserve the 12 victory of the season for North Texas.
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"I thought we played with some energy today," head coach Rodney DeLong said. "We were pretty good at the plate, our pitchers threw well again today, we played good defense and we were just good all the way around today."
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The Mean Green pitching staff continued their dominate weekend by only allowing two runs on eight hits through the two games.
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"Coach Jamie Allred does a great job with our pitchers," DeLong added. "They do a great job, they support each other and they work hard. It's good to see, we have multiple arms that can beat anybody."
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North Texas will be back in action on Tuesday when they host UTA at Lovelace stadium before hitting the road for a big weekend in Norman at the Courtyard Marriott tournament hosted by the no. 3 Oklahoma Sooners.
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Game One – North Texas 6, Texas Southern 1
Freshman Ariel Thompson started the day with the best outing of her young career. The Claremore, Oklahoma native recorded her first career complete game while registering a career-high 12 strikeouts.
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The Mean Green offense got started with a Hanna Rebar triple to right field, the second of her career, she would scamper home on a passed ball three batters later. North Texas would go stale on offense until the fourth inning.
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Rebar would start the inning off by being hit by a pitch before Katie Clark sacrifice bunted her to second. Candain Callahan would follow up Clark with her first career triple to plate Rebar before being driven in by a Nicole Ochotnicki sacrifice bunt.
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North Texas would add a run in the fifth on a Tayla Evans RBI single before adding another in the sixth after Clark tripled before scoring on an errant throw by the Lady Tigers. A Tayla Evans double in the sixth would add the final run of the game for the Mean Green, plating Kourtney Williams who reached on an infield single.
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Thompson would surrender her only run of the game in the seventh after a double followed an error in the field, but the freshman would end any further threat to preserve the best start of her young career.
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Game Two – North Texas 7, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 1
The Mean Green fell behind for the first time this weekend in the first inning against the Islanders after a pair of singles, and would not respond offensively until the fourth inning.
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Bailey Tindell got her second start of the weekend and was able to hold the Islanders at bay after their first inning run, only allowing five base runners through the next 3.2 innings. Hope Trautwein would take over with two outs in the fifth and surrender just two hits the rest of the way.
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North Texas' offense would give Trautwein her sixth victory of the season with a six-spot in the fifth inning. The Mean Green plated four runs before recording an out started off by a Saleen Donohoe double, she would score on a Rebar single before a Clark single and Islander error plated Evans. A Callahan single would then plate Rebar and Clark before a Nicole Ochotnicki single put runners at the corners and force a pitching change.
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A Camille Grahmann ground out would drive in Callahan before Donohoe reached on a fielder's choice with the bases loaded, plating Ochotnicki. Trautwein would then shut down the Islanders the rest of the way to preserve the 12 victory of the season for North Texas.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Trautwein, Hope (6-1)
L: Hoyt,S. (0-4)
Batting:
RBI: Morse,H. 1
SH: Hoyt,S. 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Lee,T. 1
SB: Lee,T. 2
HBP: Lee,T. 1
Batting:
2B: Donohoe, Saleen 1
RBI: Donohoe, Saleen 1 ; Rebar, Hanna 1 ; Callahan, Candain 2 ; Grahmann, Camille 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Donohoe, Saleen 1 ; Evans, Tayla 1 ; Rebar, Hanna 1 ; Clark, Katie 1 ; Callahan, Candain 2 ; Ochotnicki, Nicole 1
SB: Evans, Tayla 1
CS: Clark, Katie 1
Game Leaders
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H
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RBI
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AB
3
R
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H
2
RBI
0
AB
3
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
AB
4
R
1
H
1
RBI
1
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