The T-Bird softball team picked up their first series sweep of the season over the weekend defeating in-state and Big Sky Conference rival Weber State three times in Ogden.
The win also gives the T-Birds its first Big Sky conference road series win of the year.
SUU 7, WSU 2
Ariel Zimmerman picked up her 10th win of the season and Ariel Morbeck hit her first career home run as the T-Birds picked up its sixth straight win defeating Weber State 7-2.
For the first time in the series against the Wildcats the T-Birds failed to score a run in the first inning, but the T-Birds still took an early advantage.
Madison Resley reached on an error to lead off the top of the second inning, and following a Cora Cordova ground out, Katie Olinger walked to put runners on first and second that set the stage for Morbeck.
The senior just cleared the left field wall to give the T-Birds a 3-0 lead.
The score remained 3-0 until the top of the fourth inning when the T-Birds added to their lead.
Morbeck leadoff the inning with a walk and moved over to second on a single by Megan Neilsen to put runners on first and third for the T-Birds.
Following a Kelli Hales pop out to first base, WSU starting pitcher, Morgan Allaband, could not find the strike zone.
The sophomore threw a wild pitch to advance the runners to second and third, walked leadoff hitter Kylee Wolf to load the bases and then the wheels really fell off.
Allaband threw two more wild pitches that allowed SUU to score a pair of runs to extend its lead before walking Mikkel Griffin and hitting Kelsey Bryant with a pitch to reload the bases.
Following the walk and hit by pitch the Wildcats made a pitching change to Jasmine Ioane, but the results were the same as the first pitch, Ioane threw was a wild pitch to plate the third run of the inning.
Ioane then hit Resley with a pitch to reload the bases for Cordova.
Cordova lifted a ball to right field for a sacrifice fly to plate the fourth run of the inning but Bryant was thrown out trying to advance from second to third to end the threat.
The Wildcats answered back in the bottom half of the frame with a pair of runs to cut the deficit to 7-2, but that would be as close as WSU would get the rest of the day.
SUU 6, WSU 2
The T-Birds jumped out to a five nothing lead in the top of the first inning a cruised to a 6-2 victory against the Wildcats in the second game of Friday’s doubleheader.
SUU’s first runs of the game came without the courtesy of a hit as Resley drew a one-out walk with the bases loaded and WSU starting pitcher Allaband threw a wild pitch to plate the second run.
Olinger delivered the first RBI hit for the T-Birds sending a single into center field to extend the lead to 3-0. Neilson added an RBI single of her own to plate the fourth run and Hales ended the scoring with an RBI double as the T-Birds batted around in the first.
Olinger added her second RBI single of the day in the second inning to further extend the T-Bird lead to 6-0.
The Wildcats got a run back in the bottom of the fourth as Krystin Kubo hit a solo shot and added another run in the fifth on an RBI double by Loane.
Danielle Axe picked up her third win of the season and first in Big Sky play after giving up two runs on six hits while striking out three in five innings of work.
SUU 12, WSU 2 (F/5 innings)
Wolf and Griffin hit their second and sixth homeruns of the season as the T-Birds cruised to a 12-2 win against the Wildcats in game one of Friday’s doubleheader.
The T-Birds opened the scoring in the top half of the first inning as Henderson drove a pitch into the left center field gap to plate the first run of the game.
Resley answered Henderson’s double with a double of her own to the right center gap to give the T-Birds a 3-0 lead.
SUU doubled its lead in the top of the second inning as Olinger and Hales leadoff the inning with back-to-back singles and were driven home on a Wolf homerun to left field.
The Wildcats got a run back in the bottom of the third inning on a Brooke Ford RBI single and in the bottom of the fourth inning on a T-Bird error to cut the lead to 6-2.
SUU doubled its scoring total once more in the top of the fifth inning as Wolf added a pair of runs on an RBI single to left center before scoring on a Griffin’s home run.
The T-Birds added two more runs in the inning as Bryant scored on an error and Resley drove a single up the middle for the 12-2 lead.
Zimmerman took the win for the T-Birds going the distance giving up two runs, one earned on six hits, while striking out six.
Kylee Colvin also went the distance in taking the loss for the Wildcats giving up all 12 runs on 13 hits while striking out two.
The T-Birds will be back in action Wednesday as they host the University of Utah in a doubleheader before closing out their inaugural Big Sky season Friday and Saturday at home against Northern Colorado.
First pitch against the Utes is scheduled for noon. Wednesday with live stats anticipated to be available on suutbirds.com and live radio coverage available on Power 91 and power91radio.com.
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