Jordan Stevens Wins 2 hundredth Game at UND, Hawks Take Each Games on Day Two of Birds Up Bash

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – The North Dakota softball staff totaled 28 runs and 36 hits throughout two video games on Saturday, going 2-0 with wins over UT Arlington and Saint Francis from Roadrunner Field. UND is now 11-8 on the season, defeating the Mavs 16-8 and the Red Flash 12-3, in six innings.

Jordan Stevens picked up his 2 hundredth win as a Fighting Hawk with the primary win of the day, as UND swatted 5 residence runs over the 2 video games. Two every got here through Makenna Alexander, whereas Taya Hopfauf, Camryn Lasota and Chloe Bethune every nuked one. It was Bethune’s first profession residence run.

Game 1 UND 16, UTA 8

It was one other comeback win from the Hawks towards the Mavs, overcoming a 4-0 deficit with six runs within the second inning. UND had 22 hits, the primary 20-hit recreation since March 31, 2019.

Hopfauf led the best way, going 3-for-5 from the sphere with 4 RBIs and a house run. She was on base 4 instances. Lasota, Aleksia Severson and Jaedyn Valdez all went 3-of-5, with Katelyn Neumayer and Chloe Bethune going 3-for-4. Chloe had three RBIs, together with Brooklyn Morris who totaled three runs batted in, going 1-of-5 on the plate.

Tehya Armstrong began the sport for UND, permitting six earned runs throughout 1.1 innings. Unity Nelson got here in for reduction, going 5.2 innings, giving up simply two earned runs, strolling two and putting out three. She picked up her fourth win of the season.

How It Happened

After falling behind 4-0, UND logged six runs within the second inning, on six hits. Morris had a three-run RBI double, making it 4-3, through which she ended up scoring on a wild pitch, making it 4-4. Lasota then hit a double and was pushed in by Severson, who logged a triple and later scored on a wild pitch, placing UND up 6-4.

UT Arlington hopped again in entrance within the backside of the third, scoring three runs to go up 7-6. The Hawks have been held scoreless within the third and fourth innings, leaving a complete of 4 runners on base. They hopped again in entrance within the fifth, behind 4 runs and 4 hits. Hopfauf roped a two-RBI single, driving in Chloe Bethune and Lasota, to go up 8-7.

Neumayer and Hailey Bethune every scorched RBI doubles, placing the Hawks forward 10-7 heading into the underside of the fifth.

The Mavs acquired one within the backside of the fifth, making it 10-8. After a scoreless high of the sixth, UND tallied six runs on eight hits within the high of the seventh, to blow the sport open to 16-8. Hopfauf began the cost with a solo residence run, adopted by an RBI single from Valdez making it 12-8. Chloe Bethune then opened issues up, with a three-run residence run, the primary one in all her profession, to place UND up 15-8. Hopfauf later tacked on her fourth RBI of the sport, as UND took a 16-8 lead, in path to a victory.

Game 2 UND 12, Saint Francis 3 (F/6)

The Hawks stored the bats sizzling within the second recreation, scoring 5 runs within the high of the primary. Those 5 runs have been all UND would wish in path to a run-rule after six innings.

Alexander hit two residence runs, whereas Lasota cranked one to guide off the sport. Hailey Bethune went 3-for-4 on the plate with two RBIs, whereas Hopfauf, Alexander, Valdez and Chloe Bethune every had two base knocks.

Tegan Livesay improved to 5-3 within the circle, going the complete 6.0 innings, permitting simply three runs on six hits, putting out 4 and strolling three. It was her third high quality begin of the season.

How It Happened

NoDak scored 5 runs on 5 hits within the high of the primary, courtesy of a lead-off residence run by Lasota and a three-run homer from Alexander. North Dakota led 5-0 after one.

Neumayer had an RBI single within the high of the second to go up 6-0, earlier than Alexander homered once more within the high of the third, to make it 7-0. Morris had a sac fly in that inning, going up 8-0.

The Red Flash scored three unanswered runs over the subsequent two innings, to trim the rating to 8-3. Following scoreless frames within the high of the fourth and high of the fifth, NoDak tacked on 4 runs within the sixth, due to an RBI single from Hailey Bethune, an RBI double from Valdez and a two-RBI single from Chloe Bethune, to blow it open to 12-3.

A scoreless backside of the sixth from Livesay, gave UND the victory at 12-3. The Hawks will probably be again in motion tomorrow at 9 a.m. towards New Mexico State.

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