MELBOURNE, Fla. (April 20, 2010)- The Rollins
softball team took another important step in their quest to add
another conference championship by narrowly escaping conference foe
Florida Tech, 1-0, Tuesday afternoon. Rollins needed extra innings
to escape from Melbourne with a victory and with the win the Tars
improve to 36-4 overall and 15-1 in conference play, while Florida
Tech falls to 21-22 overall and 8-11 in conference.
The game was a pitcher's duel throughout the whole game as both
pitchers only yielded a combined 12 hits and struck out 27
batters.
Freshmen Kirsten
Frame broke the single game record for strikeouts in a game as
she retired 20 batters on strikes in the 13 inning affair. Frame
improves her record to 25-2 and looks poised to guide the Tars to
another conference championship.
The bats for the Tars struggled to muster anything against Tiffani
Bishop as it took an error to move Lauren
Caldwell to third after her double to right field and then a
risky play to take off for home on a ground out to third base to
score the winning run in the top half of the 13th inning.
The hero offensively was Caldwell, who collected two of the Tars'
six hits and was joined by Christine Roser, Amber
Pederon, Meredith
Foster and Brittney
Pumpelly with each collecting a hit.
Florida Tech had a few chances to push across the first run of the
game, but could not scratch a run against Frame. The freshmen
pitching sensation worked out of a few difficult situations
including a bases loaded situation, but the Frame sat down the
Panthers to get out of the inning.
Rollins is no stranger to extra inning games after going 12 innings
with Flagler earlier this season to capture another hard fought
victory.
The Tars look to keep momentum going through the last part of the
conference season to seize their second straight conference
championship and another berth to the NCAA Regional Tournament.
The two teams will resume the series with doubleheader action
slated for 2 p.m. on Wednesday from Melbourne.
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