Monday, April 12
Pine Bluff, AR
1 PM
University of North Texas
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Arkansas - Pine Bluff
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North Texas
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Arkansas Pine Bluff
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MGSB Run-Rule UAPB for Series Sweep
4/12/2021 3:51:00 PM | Softball
PINE BLUFF, Ar. – The North Texas softball team finished off a three-game sweep of Arkansas – Pine Bluff with an 8-0 run-rule victory on Monday afternoon, moving their win streak to five games. The Mean Green now will turn their attention to a midweek matchup with UT Arlington on Wednesday night before their second Conference USA series of the year in El Paso this weekend.
"Any success we have is good for us," head coach Rodney DeLong said. "We have to play a lot better. The next 6-8 games are going to be tough on the road and we'll have to come with a little more energy than we had this weekend. I think we'll play with more energy this next weekend."
Ariel Thompson got the start for the Mean Green and picked up her first win of the year with 4.0 innings of scoreless softball, allowing just one hit and striking out seven UAPB hitters. Bailey Tindell threw one inning of relief in her second outing of the season, allowing just one hit and inducing a double play.
North Texas struck first in the game with a three-run first that was started with an RBI fielder's choice for Rayna Lewis before a sacrifice fly by Ashlyn Walker and a fielder's choice by Kalei Christensen plated the second and third runs of the inning. The Mean Green would add a run in the second after Tuesday DerMargosian reached on an error and eventually came around to score on a sacrifice fly by Tayla Evans.
Thompson would retire the first six batters she faced before an infield single gave UAPB their first baserunner of the day. At the end of the game, Pine Bluff would only get one runner to second base after a stolen base in the fifth.
Lewis would blow the game wide open and a three-run home run in the fourth inning to put the Mean Green ahead 7-0 before a Tarah Hilton single in the fifth pushed across the eighth run of the game.
"Any success we have is good for us," head coach Rodney DeLong said. "We have to play a lot better. The next 6-8 games are going to be tough on the road and we'll have to come with a little more energy than we had this weekend. I think we'll play with more energy this next weekend."
Ariel Thompson got the start for the Mean Green and picked up her first win of the year with 4.0 innings of scoreless softball, allowing just one hit and striking out seven UAPB hitters. Bailey Tindell threw one inning of relief in her second outing of the season, allowing just one hit and inducing a double play.
North Texas struck first in the game with a three-run first that was started with an RBI fielder's choice for Rayna Lewis before a sacrifice fly by Ashlyn Walker and a fielder's choice by Kalei Christensen plated the second and third runs of the inning. The Mean Green would add a run in the second after Tuesday DerMargosian reached on an error and eventually came around to score on a sacrifice fly by Tayla Evans.
Thompson would retire the first six batters she faced before an infield single gave UAPB their first baserunner of the day. At the end of the game, Pine Bluff would only get one runner to second base after a stolen base in the fifth.
Lewis would blow the game wide open and a three-run home run in the fourth inning to put the Mean Green ahead 7-0 before a Tarah Hilton single in the fifth pushed across the eighth run of the game.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Thompson, Ariel (1-0)
L: Schmidt, K (0-1)
Batting:
HR: Lewis, Rayna 1
RBI: Hilton, Tarah 1 ; Evans, Tayla 1 ; Lewis, Rayna 4 ; Walker, Ashlyn 1 ; Christensen, Kalei 1
SF: Evans, Tayla 1 ; Walker, Ashlyn 1
Base Running:
RUNS: DerMargosian, Tuesday 3 ; Hilton, Tarah 2 ; Evans, Tayla 1 ; Lewis, Rayna 1 ; Smith, Mikayla 1
SB: DerMargosian, Tuesday 2 ; Christensen, Kalei 2 ; Holguin, Miranda 1
HBP: Evans, Tayla 2
Base Running:
SB: Elerby, T 1
Game Leaders
Hitting
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RBI
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AB
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H
1
RBI
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AB
4
R
1
H
1
RBI
4
AB
1
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
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