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Swanson and Grofman
2
Winner Houston Christian HOUSTON 9-6
0
Stephen F. Austin STEPHEN 5-13
Winner
Houston Christian HOUSTON
9-6
2
Final
0
Stephen F. Austin STEPHEN
5-13
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Houston Christian HOUSTON 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 1
Stephen F. Austin STEPHEN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3

W: Swanson, Lyndie (3-1) L: A. Telford (2-6)

1
Winner Houston Christian HOUSTON 10-6
0
Stephen F. Austin STEPHEN 5-14
Winner
Houston Christian HOUSTON
10-6
1
Final
0
Stephen F. Austin STEPHEN
5-14
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Houston Christian HOUSTON 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 0
Stephen F. Austin STEPHEN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0

W: Grofman, Ronni (3-2) L: B. Gainous (1-5)

Game Recap: Softball |

SB: Dominant pitching, late-inning magic with bats cinch doubleheader sweep at SFA

Swanson and Grofman put on clinics in circle; Huskies score in final at-bat in both games to claim road pair



NACOGDOCHES --- Houston Christian University got two brilliant pitching performances and some late-inning magic with the bats in both ends of a doubleheader sweep of Stephen F. Austin State University on Friday afternoon. Lyndie Swanson and Ronni Grofman combined to shut down the Lumberjack bats until big hits came in the final at-bats for HCU in both games. The Huskies would take the opener 2-0 in eight innings before locking down the sweep with a 1-0 victory in the nightcap.
 
The Huskies improve to 10-6 on the season and have now won four in a row, while the Lumberjacks fall to 5-14 overall. HCU and SFA will complete the three-game series on Saturday with first pitch slated for 1 pm.
 
GAME ONE : HCU 2, SFA 0 (8 innings)
 
Making the 50th start of her career, Swanson was masterful in limiting the Jacks to just two hits on the afternoon until the bats of her own nine came through. The biggest threat for SFA came in the second, when a sharp single by Mikealah Burkland through the right side was fielded cleanly by Maddy Bailey who then rifled a missile to Jasie Roberts at the plate to cut down pinch-runner Veronica Culley.
 
The Huskies finally pushed through in the eighth inning with all the damage coming after a quick two outs to start the stanza. Haylie Savage got things rolling with a single through the right side and Jasie Roberts followed with a base knock up the middle. Kaicey Hagler would walk to load the bases, and Ronni Grofman was brought on as a pinch-hitter for Breana Herrera.
 
Grofman worked the count to 2-2 before lining a single up the middle underneath the glove of diving SFA shortstop Chloe Reneau and drive in Savage and Roberts for a 2-0 lead. 
 
That would be enough for Swanson, who finished off the Jacks in the bottom of the frame in order. The senior from Katy would finish with 123 pitches in eight innings of work while matching her career-best with 10 strikeouts. Her eight innings pitched made her just the ninth pitcher in school history to surpass 400 career innings.
 
Five Huskies had hits, the aforementioned trio in the eighth along with Maggie Childs and Jackie Jessup.
 
Kelby Robbins and Mikaelah Burkland had the only two hits for the Jacks. Alexis Telford suffered the hard-luck loss, as she too was brilliant in the circle, spinning 7.2 innings of five-hit ball with seven K's on 127 pitches in falling to 2-6 on the season.
 
GAME TWO : HCU 1, SFA 0
 
After the batting heroics in game one, it was Grofman's turn in the circle in game two. She too mowed through the Jacks lineup, allowing just four hits and walking one until the offense could come through. This time is was the bat of Kaicey Hagler, who with one out in the seventh, crushed a mammoth drive to left field that edged the Huskies in front.
 
After getting out of a two-on, one-out pickle unscathed in the fourth, Grofman then got a little more help in the seventh on a spectacular double-play from Maggie Childs to Jackie Jessup that erased Madilyn Nguyen, who had led of with a single off her glove.
 
 Grofman joined Swanson and Katy Janes with her third win, striking out six and inducing 11 ground-outs. The Huskies managed just four hits, with AB Garcia, Jackie Jessup and Grofman herself along with Hagler's bomb, her second of the year to tie for the team lead.
 
Brooke Gainous suffered the second pitcher's duel defeat of the day for SFA. She, like Grofman, allowed only four hits and the one run as her record dropped to 1-5.
 
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