NCAA Columbia Super Regional Game 2: Post-Game Notes
5/30/2010 12:00:00 AM | Softball
May 30, 2010
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Mizzou Notes:
Missouri's 7-2 victory against Oregon sends the Tigers to the Women's College World Series for the second consecutive season. The Tigers have now made five trips to the W.C.W.S. in school history.
The back-to-back trips to the World Series is a program first. Missouri will meet Hawaii on Thursday. Game time is TBD.
Missouri has won eight consecutive NCAA Tournament contests at University Field dating back to last season's NCAA Regional.
Missouri has now set a school record for wins this season at 51. The previous mark of 50 wins was set in 2009 and the Tigers have won a school record 188 games the last four years under Head Coach Ehren Earleywine's guidance. Missouri won a combined 190 games the six seasons before Earleywine arrived in Columbia, with just one 40-win season. Earlywine has averaged 47 wins a year at Mizzou.
Mizzou's four-run sixth inning was its biggest offensive explosion of postseason play. In fact Mizou hadn't scored more than four runs in an NCAA Tourney game this year, with those four runs coming in a 4-2 win against Illinois last weekend in the regional clincher.
Nicole Hudson unloaded a solo home run to fuel that big inning, her 10th of the year. She is the first true freshman with double figure home runs in a season since Jen Bruck in 2005. It's also the sixth consecutive season Missouri has enjoyed a double-figure home run hitter.
Lisa Simmons recorded just her third two-hit game of the year. She also launched her second home run of the season to lead off the fourth inning. She opened the Super Regional by scoring the game's lone run on Saturday in Missouri's 1-0 victory.
Ashley Fleming used her third three-hit game of 2010 to pace Missouri's offensive attack. She also drove home a pair of RBIs and now has 44 for the year. She now has 10 multi-hit games this season.
Missouri scored two first-inning runs to carry a 2-1 advantage into the second frame. The Tigers are now 24-0 this year when leading after one full inning of play.
Missouri improved to 14-9 vs. Top 25 opponents, including a 4-0 mark in NCAA Tournament play (2-0 vs. #18 Illinois last weekend). The Tigers are also 4-1 all-time vs. Oregon.
Jenna Marston scored a pair of runs and has 47 runs scored this season. She is just two shy of the Missouri single-season Top 10 and just two runs out of seventh place.
Rhea Taylor stole her 46th base of the season in the fourth inning, making her 46 of 49 on stolen base attempts. Those 46 swipes are now tied for #2 in school history. She is tied with Julie Link, who had 46 stolen bases in 1988. Taylor owns the school record for stolen bases with 57 in 2008.
Kristin Nottlemann pitched another complete game en route to her fifth win of NCAA action. She is now 24-7 this season. Her 24 wins are eighth in school single-season history.
The complete game was her 15th of the year and four of her five NCAA wins have been of the complete-game variety, including four consecutive complete-game triumphs.
In NCAA play Nottelmann has thrown 31.0 innings, allowed just 25 hits and three earned runs and is a flawless 5-0. Her NCAA ERA is 0.87.
Oregon Notes:
Oregon starting pitcher Jessica Moore took her second loss of postseason play. She threw three complete innings and allowed just two earned runs on Sunday. For the weekend she pitched 10.0 innings and allowed just two earned runs in an excellent pitching effort.
Carlyn Re registered her fourth double of the season to lead off the fifth inning. She also led off the seventh with a single. Re finished the Super Regional with three total hits.
Allie Burger recorded her 63rd hit of the season leading off the first inning. She finished the year just three hits shy of the Oregon single-season Top 10.
Burger added to her RBI total in the bottom of the fifth with a fly ball to centerfield. The RBI was Burger's 26th of 2010.
