Indiana Falls to UCF On Day One of Black & Gold Tournament

Thursday, February 6

Orlando, FL

6:00 P.M.

Indiana University

0-1

UCF

1-0

Indiana

UCF

Indiana Falls to UCF On Day One of Black & Gold Tournament

2/6/2020 9:58:00 PM | Softball

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ORLANDO, Fla. – Indiana Softball played their first contest of the Black & Gold Tournament to start the 2020 season on Thursday (Feb. 6) evening. IU fell in six innings to UCF by a final score of 8-0 after five hard fought innings. This was the first of four games the Hoosiers will play during opening weekend.

KEY MOMENTS

Indiana threatened early in the game following a single from Grayson Radcliffe and a double from Hannah Davis in the top of the first inning. UCF found a way out of the jam.
UCF would get the first run across on a double in the first inning followed by a solo home run in the second.
Emily Goodin responded to the solo shot by retiring nine batters in a row over the next two innings including back-to-back strikeouts to end the fourth inning.
Indiana continued to make good contact against the Knight's pitcher Alea White. Senior catcher Bella Norton drove a double deep into center field in the top of the fourth inning. Indiana struck out to leave her on base.
Tete Hart and Gabbi Jenkins hit a pair of singles for Indiana before a fly out to end the frame in the top of the fifth. The Knights got another across in the bottom of the inning before the Hoosiers responded with a 6-2-5 double play.
UCF would plate five runs over the course of the sixth inning to earn the run-rule victory.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

Senior pitcher Emily Goodin tossed a solid 5.0 innings only allowing three earned runs on four hits and only two walks.
Grayson Radcliffe reached base twice on a single in the first, and drew a walk in the top of the third.
Hannah Davis reached base for IU following Radcliffe with a double in the first inning.
Bella Norton hit her first double of the season in the top of the fourth inning.
Freshman right-hander Kate Rehberg made her debut for the Hoosiers in the bottom of the sixth inning retiring two in relief.
Freshman outfielder Columbia Holeman recorded her first career steal for IU, and the first steal of the 2020 campaign in the top of the second inning.

HEAD COACH SHONDA STANTON
"We came out with a single and double in the first inning then came to a screeching halt with 37% quality at bats. White made some big pitches in quality counts and we did not take advantage of the limited hitters' counts.

The freebie war is what allowed the game to get out of hand with a negative 10 in that category.

Bright spot was Goodin gave us a good enough start and what looked like our biggest question mark going into the season proved to be encouraging with us getting Josie some live action and Kate did a great job for her first collegiate innings. "

Not the way you want to start the 2020 campaign but we believe in this group and it will be exciting to watch how get better every day."

UP NEXT
Indiana continues play in the Black & Gold Tournament on Friday with a pair of contests. The Hoosiers will play Duke at 3 PM before playing UCF for the second time this weekend at 5:30 PM.