Softball | 3/30/2014 1:06:00 AM
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Box Score 2 Game one box in htmlGame two box in htmlMarch 29, 2014-The #9 Emporia State softball team increased their winning streak against Washburn to 33 games with a double header sweep of non-conference games in Topeka on Saturday. The Hornets won game one 5-1 and took the second game 4-2.
Jessica Gragg drove in two unearned runs when she reached on an error in the top of the first of the matinee. In her first start of the season Brenda Novelo homered in the second for a 3-0 Hornet lead. Gragg led off the fourth with a home run and Taylor Zordel later drove in a run with an infield single for a 5-0 lead. The Ichabods got on the board with a run in the sixth for the final 5-1 score.
Kaitlyn Caston win her nation's leading 21st game of the year, giving up one run on three hits with a walk and three strikeouts. Zordel was two for four with a run and an RBI while Novelo went two for three with a run and an RBI.
The Hornets jumped on top with two unearned runs in the third inning of the nightcap. The Ichabods cut the lead in half in the bottom of the third. Sam Carson hit WU's only home run of the four game series with one out. Washburn had been leading the nation in home runs entering the series. Stephanie Goodwin hit a two run homer in the bottom of the fifth to put Emporia State up 4-1. Washburn scored a single run in the seventh before Eryn Stockman coaxed a pop up to end the game.
Stockman went the distance, giving up nine hits, but only two runs with a walk and three strikeouts to earn her ninth win of the season. Zordel and Tricia Vogel each went two for four while Goodwin had the two run homer.
Emporia State will continue their road swing with a trip to Pittsburg State and Mo. Southern next weekend. The Hornets double header in Pittsburg, Kan. is set to begin at 3:00 p.m. on Friday with Saturday's double header in Joplin, Mo. set for 1:00 p.m.
