University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
MT Takes First Elimination Game With Win Over WKU
5/14/2004 12:00:00 AM | Softball
Friday, May 14, 2004
LAFAYETTE, La. – No. 3 seed Middle Tennessee continued its success against Western Kentucky on Friday, as the Lady Raiders rolled to a 4-0 win in the first elimination game of the 2004 Sun Belt Conference Softball Championships at Lady Cajun Park.
MT freshman Brittany Herald drove in two runs and Sun Belt Player of the Year Cortney Mitchell had an RBI single as the Lady Raiders (33-22) advanced to Friday's 8 p.m. elimination contest against the North Texas-New Mexico State winner.
WKU (35-23) got two hits from All-Sun Belt catcher Riley Garcia in dropping its fourth game in five outings against MT this year.
Middle Tennessee junior right-hander Crystal Bobo tossed a two-hit shutout in claiming her second win of the tourney. The Sun Belt Newcomer of the Year struck out five and improved to 17-11 on the year.
Full
tournament information, including updated tournament
times and bracket information, is available at
www.sunbeltsports.org and www.ragincajuns.com.
MIDDLE TENNESSEE HEAD COACH CINDY CONNELEY
“We continued to ride the strong arm of Crystal Bobo. Brittany Herald's two-run single really broke up the game and led us to the win.”
WESTERN KENTUCKY HEAD COACH LESLIE PHELAN
“For whatever reason, we didn't bring our bats this weekend. It's hard to score when you don't hit. You have to give credit to their hitters: They came through when they needed to.”
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