IU Softball @ Maryland: 5/14 - 5/16/21 on BTN+

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Indiana Softball (23-17, 23-17 Big Ten) winners of 15 of their last 20 games will go on the road to Maryland this weekend to wrap up the 2021 regular season.

Friday:  5:00

Saturday:  2:00 & 4:30

Sunday:  Noon  (Originally scheduled for 1:00)

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Checking Out The Competition
Maryland comes in with a 17-23 record on the season. Last time out the Terps won three of four games at Rutgers. Junior infielder Taylor Okada leads Maryland at the plate with a .336 batting average and 40 hits on the season. In the circle, Maryland has three pitchers with over 70 innings on the season. Courtney Wyche leads the way with an 2.31 era in 78.2 innings pitched. Trinity Schlotterbeck is 7-5 on the season with an 3.02 era in 85.2 innings.
 
Last Time Out
 Indiana swept their series with Penn State last time out. In game one Gabbi Jenkins hit her first career home run, a walk off in the eighth innings to lift Indiana to a 2-1 win. In the second game of the doubleheader the Hoosiers scored three in the sixth and four in the seventh to comeback from down 6-2 and win on another walk off. On Sunday the Hoosiers put an exclamation point on the series with a 17-0 win, their most runs in a game this season. Emily Goodin recorded a 0.47 era in 19 innings pitched for the Hoosiers. Bella Norton hit .583 for the series with seven hits and six RBI.
 
News and Notes
• Emily Goodin and Bella Norton earned Big Ten Weekly honors this week. Goodin was the Big Ten Co-Pitcher of the Week and Norton was the Big Ten Co-Player of the Week.
•  Gabbi Jenkins leads the Big Ten and NCAA in stolen bases in a single game with six. Jenkins    is second in the Big Ten with 23 stolen bases.
• Jenkins was named Big Ten Co-Player of the Week on April 20.
• Jenkins has 95 career stolen bases and broke the record of 90 set by Aimee Lonigro in 1996. She broke the program single game stolen base record already this year with six against Rutgers on Mar. 13.
•  As a team, the Hoosiers ranks eighth in the country in stolen bases at 2.28 per game. Indiana is +48 in stolen bases vs. their opponent this season.
• The Hoosiers have stolen 92 bases on the season.
• Grayson Radcliffe leads the Hoosiers in RBI with 25.
• Gabbi Jenkins is tied for the lead in the Big Ten in doubles with 17. With one more double, Jenkins will break the Indiana program record for doubles in a season. 
• In the Hoosiers 17-0 win over Penn State, they recorded 19 hits, their second most hits in a game since the 2000 season.
• Emily Goodin leads the Big Ten in innings pitched for the season at 178. The next on the list is 140.
• Goodin is fourth in the conference in strikeouts with 157. Goodin is fourth in the Big Ten in ERA for the season at 1.64.
• Brittany Ford hit her first career grand slam in game one against Rutgers on Mar. 13.
• Katie Lacefield and Taylor Lambert had their first home runs of the season on Mar. 13 during game two against Rutgers.
• Aaliyah Andrews leads the Hoosiers in batting average at .333.
• Brooke Benson recorded the first walk off of her career when she hit a RBI double in the 11th inning to help the Hoosiers prevail and get the sweep against Rutgers. Benson hit her first career home run to help the Hoosiers to a 1-0 win against Illinois on April 25.

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No score after 2 innings.  Hoosiers with the only hit thus far.  Goodin with 3 K's and no BB.

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In the 3rd, Goodin walked her first batter (on 4 pitches) but no harm resulted and she picked up 2 more K's.

Both teams go 3 and out in the 4th and Hoosiers still have the only base hit in the game.

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After Goodin walked a batter in the 4th, the Maryland runner attempted to steal second but she forgot to first ask Bella Norton "Mother may I" and Norton threw her out.

 

 

 

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Hoosiers go down in order to in the 5th all via strikeout and Goodin sets the Terps down in order.  Heckuva pitcher's duel going on in College Park.

Brooke Benson draws a leadoff walk to open the IU 6th.  Taylor Lambert then beat out a bunt to put runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs and Gabbi Jenkins does likewise to load the bases.  Grayson Radcliffe with an infield grounder but Maryland gets the force out at the plate.  Bella Norton gets a fielder's choice that scores the first IU run of the day and bases still loaded with 1 out.  Grace Lorsung drives in another run to make it a 2-0 Hoosier lead going to the Terp half of the 6th.  And the Terps go down in order.

2-0 Hoosier lead after 6 complete innings.

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NO HITTER!

Goodin gets 3 ground outs in the 7th and finishes with a no hitter.  She struck out 6 and walked 2.  Hoosiers have now won 16 of their last 21 and in large part it's due to just how well she's been pitching.  Hoosiers finished with 5 hits, no errors and left 5 on base.  Final score was 2-0.

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Maryland jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead in the first inning on a wild pitch from Goodin.   Hoosiers got the run back in the top of the 6th on a Gabbi Jenkins double driving in Taylor Lambert who'd reach base on a Terp error.  

In the bottom of the 6th, an IU error, an infield hit and a walk loaded the bases with one out.  A Terp single scored 2 and give the Terps a 3-1 lead with 2 runners still on base.  A ground out and a K got us out of the inning without any more damage.

 

The Jenkins double was her 18th of the season and is a new IU single season record.

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With 2 out in the top of the 7th, Aaliyah Andrews drew a walk but a ground out ends the game with Maryland taking the first game of today's doubleheader 3-1.  Hoosiers only managed 2 hits, committed a costly error and left 3 on base.  Goodin went the distance but her first of 2 wild pitches on the day allowed the Terps to take a quick 1-0 lead.   For the game, she gave up 3 hits, struck out 4 and walked 1.  Second game expected to start at 4:30.

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Game #2 starting off on a bad note.  After pitching game #1 in its entirety, Coach Stanton opts to start Goodin in game #2 in place of Natalie Foor and the Terps take a quick 2-0 lead with the first 2 Terp batters hitting singles coupled with an IU error.  Before she gets the first out, Goodin is replaced by Foor on the mound who gets us out of the inning without further damage.

After an inning, Maryland leads 2-0.  Curious about Stanton's decision to start Goodin.

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This game never got any better and we're now on a 2-game losing streak.  Final in game #2 was 5-0.  We had 6 hits, committed an error and left 7 on base.  Foor lasted 3.1 innings and gave up 2 runs; Montgomery pitched 1 and also gave up a run.  Linton pitched the final 1.2 and didn't allow any hits or runs.  Try again tomorrow.

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Hoosiers got back in the win column today beating Maryland 3-2 and thus split the 4-game weekend series.  Hoosiers had 7 hits, committed an error and left 5 on base.  They got 2 runs in the 4th, the first a solo HR from Gabbi Jenkins and later an rbi fielders choice by Baez that scored Bella Norton.  Terps scored their 2 in the bottom of the 4th but the Hoosiers scored again in the 6th on an rbi single by Grace Lorsung.  Goodin went the distance but gave up 10 hits (all singles), struck out 6 and walked 1.   

This weekend concludes the '21 season for the women and they finish with a record of 25-19.  

 

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Couple of clips from today's game.  And with her 6 strikeouts today, Emily Goodin moves into 4th in program history for career strikeouts with 583.  

 

 

 

 

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Once again we fail to make the tournament. Big Ten only got Michigan, Northwestern, and Minnesota in the tournament.

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9 hours ago, OliviaPope40 said:

Once again we fail to make the tournament. Big Ten only got Michigan, Northwestern, and Minnesota in the tournament.

Always wonder if it would have played out differently had we swept the Terps and finished out the season winning 19 of our last 24.

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13 hours ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Always wonder if it would have played out differently had we swept the Terps and finished out the season winning 19 of our last 24.

Last Big Ten title: 1994

Last college world series appearance: 1986

Last NCCAA tournament appearance: 2011 with the best Indiana high school I have ever seen transferred to IU from Fresno State

 

Edited May 18, 2021 by OliviaPope40