2008 Woodie Awards
Softball Can't Keep Eye On The Ball
Steve Sheridan
Issue date: 4/22/05 Section: Sports
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E-Colgate.
No, it's not the name of an online version of Colgate University. But it does accurately reflect the correct scoring for the Raider softball team's four-game weekend series with league-leading Lehigh. The Colgate women committed 13 errors in four games - leading to nine unearned runs and four losses - as the Raiders dropped four games to Lehigh by a combined score of 22-10.
Head softball coach Vickie Sax was disappointed with the outcomes, but doesn't see it as a reflection on her team.
"We certainly had hoped to perform better against Lehigh," she said. "Errors plagued us and made it impossible to stay in the games. There is no question that we have the talent and athletes to beat a ball club like Lehigh, but we played 12 games in nine days. Professional baseball players don't even do that. I think once we're rested, our pursuit will look much different - with a more favorable outcome."
In the first two games of the series, it was the Mary Wieder show for the Mountain Hawks.
In game one, Wieder laced a two-run single up the middle in the first inning and then - after an error by first-year first baseman Whitney Scott allowed a runner to get on base - launched a three-run homer over the left-center field fence to give Lehigh a 5-1 lead. For the game, Wieder went 2-for-2, drove in five runs, scored twice and also got on base via a walk and a hit-by-pitch.
Colgate's lone run in the 7-1 loss came from senior tri-captain Nichole Rawson, who led off the second inning with a solo shot.
"We're getting quite the mileage out of Nikki's bat this season," Sax said. "She's handling the pressure of hitting behind [senior tri-captain] Dorothy Donaldson well."
In Saturday's game two, it looked like Colgate would split the first two games after a late rally, but Wieder again came to the rescue of the visitors.
After Lehigh took a 2-1 lead in the top of the sixth inning, the Raiders rallied for two runs in the bottom of the inning to take its first lead of the weekend. Junior Kim Olmstead led off with a double, and classmate Erin Hanna singles two outs later to score Olmstead and tie the game. First-year Erin O'Keefe then put the Raiders on top with an RBI single, scoring Donaldson from third base.
No, it's not the name of an online version of Colgate University. But it does accurately reflect the correct scoring for the Raider softball team's four-game weekend series with league-leading Lehigh. The Colgate women committed 13 errors in four games - leading to nine unearned runs and four losses - as the Raiders dropped four games to Lehigh by a combined score of 22-10.
Head softball coach Vickie Sax was disappointed with the outcomes, but doesn't see it as a reflection on her team.
"We certainly had hoped to perform better against Lehigh," she said. "Errors plagued us and made it impossible to stay in the games. There is no question that we have the talent and athletes to beat a ball club like Lehigh, but we played 12 games in nine days. Professional baseball players don't even do that. I think once we're rested, our pursuit will look much different - with a more favorable outcome."
In the first two games of the series, it was the Mary Wieder show for the Mountain Hawks.
In game one, Wieder laced a two-run single up the middle in the first inning and then - after an error by first-year first baseman Whitney Scott allowed a runner to get on base - launched a three-run homer over the left-center field fence to give Lehigh a 5-1 lead. For the game, Wieder went 2-for-2, drove in five runs, scored twice and also got on base via a walk and a hit-by-pitch.
Colgate's lone run in the 7-1 loss came from senior tri-captain Nichole Rawson, who led off the second inning with a solo shot.
"We're getting quite the mileage out of Nikki's bat this season," Sax said. "She's handling the pressure of hitting behind [senior tri-captain] Dorothy Donaldson well."
In Saturday's game two, it looked like Colgate would split the first two games after a late rally, but Wieder again came to the rescue of the visitors.
After Lehigh took a 2-1 lead in the top of the sixth inning, the Raiders rallied for two runs in the bottom of the inning to take its first lead of the weekend. Junior Kim Olmstead led off with a double, and classmate Erin Hanna singles two outs later to score Olmstead and tie the game. First-year Erin O'Keefe then put the Raiders on top with an RBI single, scoring Donaldson from third base.