LAKELAND, Fla. (April 11, 2014) The Rollins
College softball team trounced Florida Southern 8-1 in an SSC
matchup Friday night at Barnett Field. Hilary
Brown led the Tars at the plate with a two-run double in the
first and a two-run single in the second inning.
Rollins improves to 31-10 (14-5 SSC) after the result while the
Mocs fall to 21-15 (7-9 SSC)
Niki
Fogle (W, 20-5) picked up her SSC-leading 20th
victory by holding the SSC's second best hitting team to one run
and a pair of hits. The sophomore threw 75 pitches, 57 for
strikes, and struck out a trio of Mocs in six innings of work.
Freshman Hillary
Hon made her collegiate and Rollins debut in relief, pitching a
scoreless seventh inning.
The Tars built a 5-0 first inning lead by batting through the
order. After three of the first four Rollins batters of the game
walked to load the bases, Brown gave the Tars a 2-0 lead with a
double down the left field line. Chelsea
Reed followed with a triple to right center on the next pitch
that scored two more runs. The fifth run of the inning scored on an
error.
Another walk to Hailee
Keisling started the second inning, and after back-to-back
1-out singles by Kristie
Hoeffer and Veronica
Alred, Brown drove in her third and fourth RBIs on the day with
a single. Brittany
Johnson's sacrifice fly put the Tars up 8-0.
The Mocs got a run back in the fifth inning on a sacrifice fly
but the Tars lead was too much to overcome as the game ended with
an 8-1 final score.
Rollins came into the game hitting .314 as a team, and were one
of only two teams in the SSC averaging more than eight hits per
game. Florida Southern was the other one, yet they combined for
only eight between them Friday night.
Florida Southern and Rollins will play again on Saturday with a
doubleheader scheduled for 1 p.m.
