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Box Score 2 SAN DIEGO, Calif. - The North Dakota softball team split a pair of games on Friday in the Campbell/Cartier Classic at SDSU softball stadium. NoDak won the first game against Fordham, 3-2, before dropping the night cap to San Diego State, 6-0. UND is now 3-4 on the season.
Game 1 – UND 3, Fordham 2
North Dakota took the first game of the day against the Rams, behind a complete game from
Unity Nelson in the circle. She threw her fourth-career complete game and the second of the season, going 7.0 innings, allowing two runs (one earned), while striking out seven and throwing 102 pitches. She is now 1-1 on the season.
The Hawks manufactured six hits, compared to eight from Fordham. Aleksia Severson and
Katelyn Neumayer each recorded two hits, while
Taya Hopfauf and
Makenna Alexander had one hit apiece. Neumayer had two RBIs and Hopfauf had one.
How It Happened
After Nelson sat down the Rams in the top of the 1st, the Hawks loaded the bases in the bottom half, following a
Brooklyn Morris leadoff walk, a Severson single and a Lasota walk. Neumayer got UND on the board with a sacrifice fly, bringing in Morris, to go up 1-0. NoDak settled for one run in the frame, leaving two on base.
Fordham tied it in the top of the 2nd, getting three hits off Nelson. North Dakota retook the lead in the bottom of the third, scoring two runs on three hits. Neumayer had her second RBI of the game, via a double which drove in Severson. Hopfauf followed that up with ab RBI single, to put UND up 3-1.
The Rams scored an unearned run in the 5th inning, off a sacrifice fly. Fordham then had a runner on second base with two outs and a chance to tie the game, but Nelson got Eva Koratsis to lineout to shortstop, keeping the score at 3-2.
Nelson would allow one more hit the rest of the way, leading UND to a 3-2 victory over Fordham.
Game 2 – San Diego State 6, UND 0
North Dakota tallied just one hit in the second game against the Aztecs, with Severson recording a double in the third inning.
Tehya Armstrong went 5.1 innings, while Lasota went the final .2 innings. Armstrong allowed six earned runs, walking three and allowing nine hits. Lasota recorded both outs in her .2 innings, taking her just six pitches.
While only recording one hit, UND had five walks. Jaedyn Valdez drew two, while Lasota, Morris and Neumayer each had one.
San Diego State scored two runs in the bottom of the 1st and three in the bottom of the 2nd. The Aztecs tacked on one more run in the bottom of 6th, to win the game 6-0. North Dakota will be back in action tomorrow against Baylor at 1:30 p.m. and Oregon State at 6:30 p.m.
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