2008 Woodie Awards
Softball Wins Seven Out of Eight
Steve Sheridan
Issue date: 4/15/05 Section: Sports
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The Colgate softball team returned to the Eaton Street Field this week almost one year after playing its last home game, and the team seemed to enjoy its belated homecoming. Sophomore Kelsey Nordstrom and junior Kate Howard combined to throw five complete games as the Raiders swept four games from the Lafayette Leopards by a combined score of 23-2 and split a doubleheader with the Bucknell Bison.
For head coach Vickie Sax and the Raider squad, it was certainly nice to be back at home - and busy, too.
"Unquestionably, we are thrilled to finally be back in Hamilton playing some ballgames," Sax said. "But the shame of it all is that now that we're back playing on our field, we are cramming 12 games into nine days. No wonder our pitchers' arms are sore!"
In Saturday's two games, the Raiders relied heavily on the right arms of Nordstrom and Howard and won, 3-0 and 3-1.
In the first game, Nordstrom rebounded from a tough ending to her last outing against Binghamton by tossing a four-hit shutout, her first of the season. As usual, Nordstrom did her best to blow the opposition away, racking up 11 strikeouts - matching a season high that she set against the Bearcats - and only allowing two Lafayette players to reach second base.
Offensively, the Raiders did not need much production. The team scratched together a run in both the second and third innings, the first coming on a sacrifice fly by junior Erin Hanna and the second
on a line drive home run by senior captain Dorothy Donaldson. First-year catcher Erin Gomez, who went 3-for-3 on the afternoon, added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth with an RBI single.
In the second half of the twinbill, Howard did not allow herself to be upstaged. The Wheaton, IL native scattered six hits over seven innings, only allowing one unearned run to cross the plate in the top of the sixth inning. Howard, who came off of a one-inning, three-run performance last Tuesday against Binghamton, managed to right the ship despite tying a season high with five walks.
For head coach Vickie Sax and the Raider squad, it was certainly nice to be back at home - and busy, too.
"Unquestionably, we are thrilled to finally be back in Hamilton playing some ballgames," Sax said. "But the shame of it all is that now that we're back playing on our field, we are cramming 12 games into nine days. No wonder our pitchers' arms are sore!"
In Saturday's two games, the Raiders relied heavily on the right arms of Nordstrom and Howard and won, 3-0 and 3-1.
In the first game, Nordstrom rebounded from a tough ending to her last outing against Binghamton by tossing a four-hit shutout, her first of the season. As usual, Nordstrom did her best to blow the opposition away, racking up 11 strikeouts - matching a season high that she set against the Bearcats - and only allowing two Lafayette players to reach second base.
Offensively, the Raiders did not need much production. The team scratched together a run in both the second and third innings, the first coming on a sacrifice fly by junior Erin Hanna and the second
on a line drive home run by senior captain Dorothy Donaldson. First-year catcher Erin Gomez, who went 3-for-3 on the afternoon, added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth with an RBI single.
In the second half of the twinbill, Howard did not allow herself to be upstaged. The Wheaton, IL native scattered six hits over seven innings, only allowing one unearned run to cross the plate in the top of the sixth inning. Howard, who came off of a one-inning, three-run performance last Tuesday against Binghamton, managed to right the ship despite tying a season high with five walks.