Aces host Indiana State on Wednesday
The final week of the home schedule is on tap for the University of Evansville softball team, beginning on Wednesday when the Purple Aces welcome Indiana State to Cooper Stadium for a 6 p.m. game.
This weekend, UE will take on Southern Illinois in a 3-game set. Several promotions are on tap on Saturday as t-shirts and cups will be given out; it is also Senior Day and Alumni Weekend.
UE picked up the series win at Valparaiso, taking two out of three games. Morgan Florey led the squad to a 2-0 shutout in the series opener before finishing with a 3-2 win on Sunday; she had 26 strikeouts in the two contests.  She also got it going at the plate, batting .44 (4/9) in the 3-game set while Eryn Gould and Toni Galas each checked in hitting .400.
It was just another week at the office for Evansville junior Morgan Florey, who picked up two victories in the circle while tossing three complete games. Her unbelievable season continued as she finished her 20 innings of work with 31 strikeouts and just one walk. After taking the loss in the opener at Indiana State, Florey brought her “A†game at Valpo; in 14 innings of work, she gave up 10 hits, two runs and struck out 26 batters while earning two victories.
In five games of action last week, UE freshman Eryn Gould batted .471 with eight hits in 17 at-bats while leading the Purple Aces to a 3-2 mark. She opened the week in style, going 3-4 with a run scored at Indiana State; game two against the Sycamores saw her go 1-3 while adding two runs and a walk. Her momentum continued into the series at Valparaiso as she posted two more hits in three trips to the plate while scoring her fourth run of the week in game one and wrapped up the week with a hit apiece in the final two contests against the Crusaders.
Last Wednesday, the Aces halted an 8-game losing streak as they defeated Indiana State by a 6-2 final in the second game of a doubleheader in Terre Haute. Evansville plated two runs in the first inning before two more scored in the top half of the sixth when pitcher Jaime Nurrenbern hit a 2-RBI single. After Indiana State plated two in the bottom of the sixth, UE put the icing on the cake with a pair of runs coming from a Morgan Florey single that made it the final of 6-2.
Nurrenbern earned the second win of her career, going the distance while allowing seven hits and just two runs, one of which was earned. In the opener against the Sycamores, the Aces received solo home runs from Lindsay Renneisen and McKenzie Johnson, but a 4-spot by ISU in the bottom of the 5th was the difference in a 6-3 win.
Indiana State stands at 22-22 and 9-10 in MVC action. Leslie Sims continues to lead ISU with a .421 batting average while tying for the team high with 22 runs scored. Bella Peterson, who is batting .364, leads the team with 25 RBI.
