WildcatRick
02-12-2010, 10:24 AM
The Kentucky softball team began the season with a victory for the third consecutive season, this time in stylish fashion by knocking off the fifth ranked Arizona State Sun Devils, 5-2, on their home field. Three UK players blasted their first home runs of the early season and junior Annie Rowlands drove in three runs, two off of a home run.
Kentucky (1-0) got a tremendous effort on the mound from sophomore ace Chanda Bell who went the distance and fanned 14 batters on the night for her first win of the season. Rowlands went 2-for-3 to lead the squad with three RBI. Sophomore Brittany Cervantes and senior Molly Johnson also charted long balls as the Blue and White posted 11 hits on the fifth-ranked team in the nation.
Junior Megan Yocke earned the first hit of the season when she sent a well hit ball toward the second baseman. The junior advanced to second on an error by the second baseman who attempted to back flip the ball to the first base man. Cervantes earned a bag when she was plucked by a pitch with two outs putting a pair of runners on base. After a 10-plus pitch at-bat by junior Meagan Aull the Wildcats ended the inning without bringing a run across the plate.
Bell opened the 2010 campaign by charting two straight strikeouts. After walking the third batter the sophomore ace ended the inning with her third strikeout.
UK Athletics (http://www.ukathletics.com/sports/w-softbl/recaps/021210aaa.html)
Kentucky (1-0) got a tremendous effort on the mound from sophomore ace Chanda Bell who went the distance and fanned 14 batters on the night for her first win of the season. Rowlands went 2-for-3 to lead the squad with three RBI. Sophomore Brittany Cervantes and senior Molly Johnson also charted long balls as the Blue and White posted 11 hits on the fifth-ranked team in the nation.
Junior Megan Yocke earned the first hit of the season when she sent a well hit ball toward the second baseman. The junior advanced to second on an error by the second baseman who attempted to back flip the ball to the first base man. Cervantes earned a bag when she was plucked by a pitch with two outs putting a pair of runners on base. After a 10-plus pitch at-bat by junior Meagan Aull the Wildcats ended the inning without bringing a run across the plate.
Bell opened the 2010 campaign by charting two straight strikeouts. After walking the third batter the sophomore ace ended the inning with her third strikeout.
UK Athletics (http://www.ukathletics.com/sports/w-softbl/recaps/021210aaa.html)
