Sunday, April 26
Springfield, Mo.
12:00 PM
Creighton University
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Missouri State
Bluejays Blank Bears, 4-0, to Take Series
4/26/2009 3:30:00 PM | Softball
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The Missouri Valley Conference's top pitching staff hurled its 14th shutout of the season, with junior Tara Oltman logging her 11th blanking of the year in a 4-0 win over Missouri State Sunday afternoon at Killian Stadium. The win gave the Bluejays the series win, as they did not allow an earned run to the Bears in the three-game set to improve to 31-13 overall and 17-5 in conference play. MSU dropped to 19-21 overall and 8-9 in Valley action with the loss.
Creighton took the lead in the first inning, as MSU starter Lauren McGinley (10-10) issued consecutive one-out walks to Michelle Koch and Renae Sinkler. Both runners moved into scoring position on a wild pitch, allowing Koch to score on a squeeze sacrifice bunt by Bailey Dawson to give the Jays the 1-0 lead.
The Bluejays added a run in the third inning, with Koch and Sinkler combining for the tally. Koch smacked a one-out double to right center field and scored when Sinkler followed with a single for her team-leading 34th RBI of the spring.
Two more insurance runs crossed the plate in the sixth inning. Michelle Graner walked to start the frame and would later score on a bunt single by Jessica Wakasugi. Jessi Jadlowski added a sacrifice fly to plate the fourth run of the day for the Jays.
Oltman, the two-time MVC Pitcher of the Year, pitched every inning in the three-game series with Missouri State, tossing her second shutout of the weekend on Sunday. The right-hander scattered five singles, struck out five and walked none to improve to 25-9 on the season and move within two wins of the MVC career victories record with her 82nd career win. For the weekend, Oltman logged a 0.00 ERA in 20 innings pitched, striking out 18, walking two and allowing just 11 hits and one unearned run.
Nine of CU's 14 shutouts this year have come in MVC play, while the Jays own a league-best 0.64 ERA in conference play.
Wakasugi went 2-for-2 as the only Bluejay with more than one hit on Sunday. Koch scored two of CU's four runs in the win. Freshman catcher Lauren Larson moved her hitting streak to four games with a base hit in the run-scoring sixth.
Creighton enters the final week of the regular-season in first-place in the MVC at 17-5. The Bluejays host Nebraska on Tuesday at 6 p.m., before playing a doubleheader at Iowa State on Wednesday. CU wraps up the regular-season and looks for its third straight MVC title when it plays host to Wichita State in a three-game series next weekend.
Creighton took the lead in the first inning, as MSU starter Lauren McGinley (10-10) issued consecutive one-out walks to Michelle Koch and Renae Sinkler. Both runners moved into scoring position on a wild pitch, allowing Koch to score on a squeeze sacrifice bunt by Bailey Dawson to give the Jays the 1-0 lead.
The Bluejays added a run in the third inning, with Koch and Sinkler combining for the tally. Koch smacked a one-out double to right center field and scored when Sinkler followed with a single for her team-leading 34th RBI of the spring.
Two more insurance runs crossed the plate in the sixth inning. Michelle Graner walked to start the frame and would later score on a bunt single by Jessica Wakasugi. Jessi Jadlowski added a sacrifice fly to plate the fourth run of the day for the Jays.
Oltman, the two-time MVC Pitcher of the Year, pitched every inning in the three-game series with Missouri State, tossing her second shutout of the weekend on Sunday. The right-hander scattered five singles, struck out five and walked none to improve to 25-9 on the season and move within two wins of the MVC career victories record with her 82nd career win. For the weekend, Oltman logged a 0.00 ERA in 20 innings pitched, striking out 18, walking two and allowing just 11 hits and one unearned run.
Nine of CU's 14 shutouts this year have come in MVC play, while the Jays own a league-best 0.64 ERA in conference play.
Wakasugi went 2-for-2 as the only Bluejay with more than one hit on Sunday. Koch scored two of CU's four runs in the win. Freshman catcher Lauren Larson moved her hitting streak to four games with a base hit in the run-scoring sixth.
Creighton enters the final week of the regular-season in first-place in the MVC at 17-5. The Bluejays host Nebraska on Tuesday at 6 p.m., before playing a doubleheader at Iowa State on Wednesday. CU wraps up the regular-season and looks for its third straight MVC title when it plays host to Wichita State in a three-game series next weekend.
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