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 A 10-game home stand will finish up on Wednesday as the University of Evansville softball team will play host to Kent State in a doubleheader at Cooper Stadium. Game one is set for 3 p.m. with the second contest to follow.
Evansville stands at 4-2 in the MVC following the series against Bradley. Morgan Florey batted .600 in the series with three RBIs and tossed 14 innings in the circle, posting a 1.50 ERA. She grabbed UE’s win in the series opener on Saturday as she allowed just two hits in seven innings. Brittany Hay had a team-high four runs batted in over the weekend and also drew three walks. The Aces made it on base 40.6% of the time versus the Braves.
On Sunday, Chandra Parr hit the 29th home run of her Purple Aces career. She is now just one from tying and two from breaking the program record, set by Krista Price. She played at UE from 2007 until 2010. She has batted .350 in conference play while posting a home run and four RBI.
Pitcher Morgan Florey went 1-1 with a 1.50 ERA in 14 innings of action against Bradley. She also added 16 strikeouts and a pair of complete games. In the opener versus the Braves, Florey threw a 2-hit shutout while walking just one batter and striking out 8 in a 7-0 win. She has now thrown seven complete games in a row and has registered 127 strikeouts on the season. In three games last week, Florey batted .600 for the Purple Aces while getting on base 66.7% of the time and slugging .700.
Brittany Hay hit .375 for the Purple Aces in their series against the Braves. She registered a home run, four RBIs and scored four times. Saturday’s opener saw her go 2-3 with two RBIs, a walk and steal. Hay notched a home run in the second game of the doubleheader while scoring twice, batting in two runs and reaching via a walk. Though she did not get a hit in the final game of the weekend, Hay scored twice and earned a walk.
A nice weekend of play saw Tess Hupe bat .375 versus Bradley. Hupe recorded three hits in 8 at-bats while scoring four runs.
Kent State comes to town with a 10-15 mark and sit at 2-1 in Mid-American Conference play. The Golden Flashes play #9 Alabama tonight (March 28) before heading to Evansville. Bailey Brownfield leads the way for KSU with a .358 batting average while Maddy Grimm is next up at .314. In the circle, Ronnie Ladines has notched a 2.14 ERA.
