St. John's University Athletics
Red Storm Softball Falls At Texas-San Antonio
3/6/2007 12:00:00 AM | Softball
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. ??? The St. John???s softball team continued its spring break roadtrip in the Lonestar State on Tuesday, playing Texas-San Antonio in a single game. The Red Storm took a 9-1 loss in a shortened five-inning outing.
Aimee Murray???s three run home run in the first inning put the Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners up 3-0. Junior pitcher Lisa Geer bounced back by striking out two of the next three batters and five overall. Murray gave Geer problems all day though, hitting her second homer of the day in the bottom of the third and giving Texas-San Antonio a 5-0 lead.
Senior right-handed pitcher Kim Lerch came in during the fourth inning to face Murray in her third at bat of the day and struck her out swinging. Lerch fanned three of the five batters she faced in the frame but the Roadrunners could not be contained as they scored four runs in the fourth, taking a 9-0 advantage
The Red Storm would not go down without a fight, starting out the top of the fifth with back-to-back hits from freshman catcher Tiffany D???Alessandro and junior left fielder Bionka King. Centerfielder Shauntaine Harris was walked to load the bases and freshman Brandy Reyes came in to pinch hit. Reyes???s sacrifice fly scored D???Alessandro and gave St. John???s its first run of the day. The eight-run deficit was too much to overcome as the Red Storm fell 9-1 in five innings.
D???Alessandro was not the only rookie to come through offensively as Harris posted St. John???s first hit of the day with a single up the middle in the third.
St. John???s will continue its tour of Texas, Wednesday, March 7 with a doubleheader against Texas State, beginning at 5 p.m.
