Indiana Softball Sweeps Final Day Of Opening Weekend

Saturday, February 8

Orlando, FL

9:00 AM

Indiana University

St. John's

Indiana Softball Sweeps Final Day Of Opening Weekend

2/8/2020 4:13:00 PM | Softball

Box Score 1 Box Score 2 Box Score vs St. Johns(PDF)Box Score vs Clemson (PDF)

ORLANDO, Fla. – Indiana Softball earned a two-game sweep in the final day of competition in the UCF Black & Gold Tournament on Saturday (Feb. 8). The Hoosiers defeated the Red Storm of St. John's in run-rule walk off fashion by a final of 10-2 in the morning before battling back to win their first ever program meeting with Clemson University 5-4.

Game One: Indiana 10, St. John's 2
KEY MOMENTS

For the second day in a row, Annika Baez opened the scoring for IU as she knocked an RBI single in the bottom of the first that brought home Gabbi Jenkins from second base.
Indiana put together a huge inning in the second bringing four runs home. Taylor Lambert legged out a triple followed by Tete Hart reaching on a fielding error at first base that brought home Tatum Hayes. Grayson Radcliffe then reached on a SAC bunt, bringing home Hart. Gabbi Jenkins then singled to right center bringing in Radcliffe before Annika Baez followed her up with a single to center field, allowing her to score.
Desiree Dufek helped the IU infield get out of the bases loaded jam in the third inning with a throw out at third base. She followed it up with a towering leadoff home run to start the bottom of the frame to extend the Hoosier lead to 6-0.
Hannah Davis would bring two more home for Indiana with a 2 RBI single! Brittany Ford followed up a walk to bring home another making in 9-0.
St. John's brought two across in the top of the fifth inning to stay alive. The Hoosiers responded with a run of their own in the bottom of the fifth to finish off the Red Storm via run-rule off the bat of Desiree Dufek.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

Desiree Dufek hit her first career home run with the Cream and Crimson to leadoff the bottom of the third inning. She followed it up with an RBI single to end the ball game in the fifth inning.
Gabbi Jenkins recorded two hits, two runs and an RBI in the first game of the day. She has four hits so far this season.
Hannah Davis batted in her first two RBI's for Indiana going two for three against St. John's
Grayson Radcliffe and Tete Hart both reached base twice coming around to score both times. They also each picked up a stolen bag.
Senior right-hander Emily Goodin tossed 4.0 scoreless innings on the way to her first of two wins on the day. She only allowed three hits and got two K's

Game Two: Indiana 5, Clemson 4
KEY MOMENTS

Indiana kept the hits coming to start the second game against Clemson as an E6 allowed Grayson Radcliffe to stride home in the first. Clemson was able to strand the remaining base runners keeping it 1-0.
Clemson got two in response in the bottom of the first as Hannah Goodwin doubled to left field to bring in two and take the lead. The Tigers got one more on a home run to extend the lead to 3-1 in the bottom of the third inning.
Annika Baez took the throw from Dufek making the tag on base at first to record the second out in the bottom of the fourth. Emily Goodin followed it up with her seventh strikeout of the game to keep the score.
Indiana battled back to tie it up in the top of the fifth as Tete Hart reached on an error by the Clemson infield allowing Desiree Dufek to score. Gabbi Jenkins then grounded out to second bringing in Hart tying the game 3-3.
IU took the lead in the sixth as Clemson misplayed a pop up from Bella Norton to bring home Annika Baez. Caraline Woodall was able to reach home extending Indiana's lead to 5-3.
The Hoosier defense held strong down the stretch behind Emily Goodin only allowing one run for Clemson in the bottom of the seventh. IU hung on to win the ballgame 5-4.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

Emily Goodin tossed another gem of a performance against Clemson pitching all 7.0 innings only allowing 1 earned run and recording 9 K's over 118 pitches. This was her second win of the day. She is 2-2 after this weekend.
Taylor Lambert went 2 for 3 against Clemson connecting for three hits on the entire day.
Annika Baez continued her strong day with eight put-outs against Clemson. She had zero errors over the course of the weekend.

HEAD COACH SHONDA STANTON
"It's a humbling game and you've got to be resilient. I think we saw that all weekend. I really felt the one thing we would do is play clean defense this weekend, and unfortunately that failed us. It was probably one of the worst weekend I've really ever seen, I've been coaching twenty years, of a defensive performance. – All these kids are making great adjustments, and we knew there'd be some limitations.

What I'm most proud of is what happened in the circle with Goodin right there in that game. All the mistakes that we made. Both teams were trying to give it away, and for her to stay strong and focused and to pick her team up. That's what its about, you have to pick your team up."

UP NEXT
Indiana Softball continues play early in 2020 next weekend when they travel to Durham, North Carolina for the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. The Hoosiers will play two more against Duke, and two against Syracuse.