SIU defeats UE softball in weekend opener

Aces set for Saturday doubleheader

 

Halie Fain and Haley Woolf combined to go a perfect 5-for-5 from the plate in Friday night’s series opener as the University of Evansville softball team dropped a 6-3 decision to Southern Illinois.

Fain had an efficient 3-for-3 game with an RBI while Woolf was 2-2 with a run scored.  Katie McLean went 1-2 on the night while Allison Dagget was 2-3.  Both scored a run.  Izzy Vetter was the UE (12-20, 2-7 MVC) starter, allowing six runs on six hits in four innings of work.  Emily Lockhart tossed the final two innings, allowing just one hit.

Southern Illinois (21-9, 6-3 MVC) saw Ashley Wood go 1-3 with her seventh home run of the season and three RBI.  Brianna Jones got the win for SIU, throwing a complete game.

Following a scoreless first inning, it was SIU getting on the board first in the bottom of the second.  Evansville got the run back in the third when Daggett led off with a single.  She moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Mackenzie McFeron before coming home on a Fain single.

SIU responded with a 4-run bottom of the inning, capped off by the 3-run homer by Wood.  UE got one of the runs back in the fourth when a McLean single plated Woolf, who hit a leadoff double.  The sixth Saluki run of the night came home on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fourth before UE finished the scoring in the seventh when a McFeron groundout scored McLean.