Feb. 29, 2012
Box Score
Daytona Beach, Fla. --
The Lions (11-6) broke up their two tournament road trip to Florida with a one day double header against Bethune Cookman Wednesday in Daytona Beach, Florida. The last time these two teams met was last year at Smith Field where the Lions earned a 9-2 victory. Wednesday afternoon, the Lions dominated again.
Game 1
LMU, 3 Bethune Cookman, 2
The Lions wasted no time getting their offense going as senior slugger Kelly Sarginson drive in an RBI single with two outs and one runner on to get the Lions on the scoreboard first. Wasting little time, as freshmen Sterling Shuster drove in two RBIs on a hard hit to third base, giving the Lions a 3-0 lead.
RHP Molly Medeiros held the Wildcats to three hits through five innings until Bethune Cookman's Amari Foster's solo home run in the bottom of the fifth inning erased another shutout for Medeiros. Medeiros earned her eighth win of the season in game one with three strikeouts, giving up only five hits in her seven inning outing today.
Game 2
LMU, 11 Bethune Cookman, 2
Offense came from all ends of the batting order in game two with eight of the nine batters registering one or more hits. Right away the Lions got things moving with an RBI single through the left side by Samantha Nelson to give the Lions a 1-0 lead.
The hits continued in the second as Danielle Smith drove in Skylar Segura with a short ball RBI single. In the top of the third, Sam Fischer went yard with a lead off solo homerun to left center to start things off. Later in the inning, junior Skylar Segura doubled to left center, driving in Nelson and Sarginson, putting the Lions up 5-2 after three innings.
The top of the sixth inning saw more offense from the Lions as sophomore Sam Nelson doubled down the left field line to drive in another RBI for the Lions. The Lions then capitalized on two wild pitches that brought home two more unearned runs.
Back to back wild pitches in the top of the seventh inning set up slugger Sam Fischer for her tenth home run of the season, and 54th all time as she homered to the exact same spot she had in the third inning, this time driving in three RBIs with her. The Lions went on to win 11-2.
Dana Waldusky (3-2) threw her third win of the season pitching four complete innings with two strikeouts.
The Lions are back in action Friday as they take on Harvard in the USF Under Armour Invitational in Clearwater, Florida at 1:00 Pacific time.
--GO LIONS--
