Oct. 3, 2009
Columbia, Mo. - Improving to 4-0 on the fall campaign, the Missouri softball team shutdown Iowa Central Community College, 12-3, in game two of the doubleheader played on University Field. The Tigers combined for 13 hits and sent two balls out of the park on home runs by newcomer Nicole Hudson (Webb City, Mo.) and sophomore Jaydee Young (Peculiar, Mo.). Hudson's fourth inning blast is her fifth of the season, while Young's three run bomb is her first of the campaign.
Three Tigers recorded a multi-hit game including junior All-American Marla Schweisberger (Raymore, Mo.) who finished the day 3-for-4, scoring one run in the fifth and credited with an RBI in the third. Schweisberger's sngle to centerfield drove in transfer Catherine Lee (Covington, Ga.) from second base.
Tied at one after one inning of play, Missouri's offense improved in the third inning as the Tiger's scored four runs on four hits and one Triton error. Missouri added insurance runs in the third, fourth and fifth frames.
Freshman Jenna Marston (St. Louis, Mo.) bat leadoff for Missouri and scored three of the Tiger's 12 runs. Marston reached base in the first inning after being hit by pitch and singled in the third and fourth innings.
Sophomore Kristin Nottelmann (Fenton, Mo.) received the start in the circle for the Tigers and threw five innings, allowing one run on five hits. Making her first start of the fall in the circle, freshman Lindsey Muller (Stilwell, Kan.) entered the game in relief and struck out two batters. Iowa Central tacked on two runs in the top of the seventh when Brittany Martin hit a two run homer off of Muller.