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19 - Ronni Grofman (SLU P 1)
SLU Athletics
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HCU HCU 13-12, 0-4 SLC
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Winner Southeastern SLU 23-6, 6-1 SLC
HCU HCU
13-12, 0-4 SLC
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Final
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Southeastern SLU
23-6, 6-1 SLC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
HCU HCU 0 0 1 0 0 1 6 6
Southeastern SLU 4 1 0 4 X 9 12 0

W: Blanchard, Cera (10-1) L: Swanson, Lyndie (4-3)

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Winner HCU HCU 14-12, 1-4 SLC
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Southeastern SLU 23-7, 6-2 SLC
Winner
HCU HCU
14-12, 1-4 SLC
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Final
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Southeastern SLU
23-7, 6-2 SLC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
HCU HCU 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 8 0
Southeastern SLU 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 8 1

W: Grofman, Ronni (4-5) L: DuBois, Ellie (7-3)

Game Recap: Softball |

SB: Huskies split with SLC-leading SLU

Grofman gem snaps skid and hands HCU first conference victory



HAMMOND, La. --- Houston Christian University got a brilliant effort in the circle from Ronni Grofman in game two, and salvaged a split of a Friday twi-night doubleheader with Southeastern Louisiana. SLU took the opener 9-1 in five innings, before the Huskies held off a late rally by the hosts in the nightcap for a 3-2 victory.
 
The second game victory was the first SLC win of the season for HCU, snapping a six-game losing streak in the process. HCU is now 14-12 overall and 1-4 in the Southland, while SLU moves to 23-7 and 6-2 in the league.
 
A Saturday matinee will serve as the series finale, with first pitch slated for 12 pm at North Oak Park.
 
GAME ONE : SLU 9, HCU 1
 
Game one was just one of those games for the Huskies. HCU would leave the bases loaded in the top of the first, and it was downhill from there, as the Lions put up a four-spot in the bottom of the frame and never looked back.
 
The lone bright spot for HCU came in the third, as Kaicey Hagler tripled to right center to bring in Jasie Roberts, who had doubled. SLU would post another four-spot in the fourth to break the game wide open, and all told, the Lions took advantage of six miscues from the visitors on top of cranking out 12 hits.
 
Roberts was 2-3 with a run and Hagler finished 1-1 with a walk and RBI. Lyndie Swanson took the defeat, giving up just three earned runs in four innings while walking two and fanning two.
 
Cera Blanchard won her 10th game of the season for Southeastern, allowing just six hits and one run. Ka'Lyn Watson, Bailey Krolczyk and Cam Goodman each had two hits for the Lions.
 
GAME TWO : HCU 3, SLU 2
 
"Well, well, well ... how the turntables." – Michael Scott
 
The Huskies wasted little time erasing any memory of game one. AB Garcia started things off with a triple down the left field line on the second pitch of the game, and Haylie Savage would follow with a sharp single through the right side on the fourth pitch of game two to stake the Huskies to a 1-0 lead.
 
HCU would get another run in the third, courtesy of senior catcher Jasie Roberts. She would park the second pitch she saw from reliever MC Comeaux over the left field wall, her third long ball of the season that would push HCU's advantage to 2-0. The homer also represented her 100th career RBI, becoming the eighth player in school history to hit the century mark.
 
From there it was Ronni Grofman keeping the Lions bats at bay. The senior from Kingwood worked out of a two-on, one-out jam in the third, and in the fourth got a big 4-6-3 double play to end the frame with no damage.
 
In the fifth, Southeastern would juice the bases with one out. A line drive to left by pinch-hitter Ariel Gomez was snared by Maddy Bailey, who then unleashed a rope to Jasie Roberts at home to tag out Audrey Greely for an inning-ending twin-killing.
 
In the seventh, the Huskies tacked on what would end up being an all-important insurance run. AB Garcia singled through the left side to start the inning, then moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from Savage and to third on a groundout by Roberts. Up stepped Kaicey Hagler, who stroked a double to right center to score Garcia and give HCU a 3-0 advantage.
   
In the seventh, Lexi Johnson led off with a double to right center. In what may have been one of the most important plays of the game, pinch-runner Brilee Broussard was caught at third when Haylie Savage scooped up a grounder by Greely and quickly pitched to Tabitha Burnett for the tag-out and the first out of the frame.
   
The next batter, Coleen Kulivan, then smacked a ball to center that bounded away, and came all the way around for a two-run, inside-the-park home run to cut HCU's lead to 3-2. Grofman would get Cam Goodman swinging before Ka'Lyn Watson doubled to left center, keeping the Lions' hopes alive. Grofman again reached back for the big punch-out, getting Chloe Magee swinging to end the threat and the ballgame.
 
Grofman scattered eight hits and walked just one. She allowed just the two runs in the seventh and struck out six for her fourth win of the season, tying Lyndie Swanson and Katy Janes for the team lead and snapping HCU's six-game losing streak.
 
AB Garcia was 2-4 with two runs while Hagler went 2-3 with an RBI. Roberts hit her third homer of the season for her team-leading 16th RBI of the year.
 
Ellie DuBois couldn't escape the first inning and took the loss for SLU. Three other Lions combined to hold HCU to six hits and two runs the rest of the way. Colleen Kulivan went 3-3 with the homer and two RBI to lead SLU.

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