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Carli Jones
Carli Jones
9
Winner Central Oklahoma UCO 33-8, 13-4 MIAA
1
Nebraska-Kearney UNKSOFT 7-38, 4-15 MIAA
Winner
Central Oklahoma UCO
33-8, 13-4 MIAA
9
Final
1
Nebraska-Kearney UNKSOFT
7-38, 4-15 MIAA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Central Oklahoma UCO 1 0 3 4 1 9 8 1
Nebraska-Kearney UNKSOFT 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 1

W: Chestnut, Jayden (14-3) L: Housholder,M (3-17)

10
Winner Central Oklahoma UCO 34-8, 14-4 MIAA
3
Nebraska-Kearney UNKSOFT 7-39, 4-16 MIAA
Winner
Central Oklahoma UCO
34-8, 14-4 MIAA
10
Final
3
Nebraska-Kearney UNKSOFT
7-39, 4-16 MIAA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Central Oklahoma UCO 1 0 1 6 0 0 2 10 14 0
Nebraska-Kearney UNKSOFT 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 9 0

W: Walker, Peyton (17-4) L: Sempek,Sara (4-12)

Game Recap: Softball |

UCO Powers Past Lopers

KEARNEY, Neb. (April 10) – Morgan Heard, JoBi Heath and Carli Jones smacked two home runs apiece to lead a long-ball attack that carried surging Central Oklahoma to a Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association doubleheader sweep of Nebraska-Kearney here Monday.
 
The Bronchos belted seven homers in claiming 9-1 and 10-3 victories, with Jones and Heath hitting one in each contest.  Heard went deep twice in the second game and Mo Selman also homered in the nightcap as UCO won for the 13th time in 14 outings.
 
"We swung the bats pretty well today and came out with two good road wins," head coach Cody White said.  "I thought we did a good job staying aggressive at the plate and did what we needed to do."
 
The Bronchos improved to 34-8 on the season and 14-4 in the conference in the make-up games that were postponed last month by winter weather.  UCO moves on to Hays, Kan. Tuesday to take on Fort Hays State in a 1 p.m. twinbill.
 
Heath, Jones and Ashleigh Tramel had two hits apiece to pace the first-game offensive attack, while Jayden Chestnut picked up her seventh straight pitching win with another dominating performance in the circle.
 
Chestnut improved to 14-3, scattering five hits in the contest that ended after five innings on the eight-run rule.  The sophomore standout struck out six, didn't walk a batter and lost her bid for a fourth consecutive shutout on a one-out solo homer in the fifth inning to end a string of 27 straight shutout innings.
 
UCO broke on top quickly in the top of the first on Heath's run-scoring single, with a two-run double by Tori Collet and RBI single by Jones pushing the lead to 4-0 in the third.
 
Heath's two-run homer to left-center field highlighted a four-run fourth inning and Jones' lead-off homer to right field in the fifth made it 9-0 before UNK got its lone run in the bottom of that frame.
 
The Bronchos finished with 14 hits in the second-game rout, led by Heard's 3-for-4, two-homer, three-run, three-RBI outing.  Heath had another two-hit, three-RBI game, while Jones and Brooke Zukerman also had two hits.
 
Heath's RBI single in the first put UCO on top early and Heard led off the third with her first homer of the game to make it 2-0.  The Bronchos erupted for four runs in the fourth, getting two-run homers from Selman – the first of her career – and Heard.
 
Another two-run shot by Heath made it 8-0 in the top of the fifth, though the Lopers kept the game going with two runs in the bottom of the inning.  UNK pulled within 8-3 in the sixth before Jones ended UCO's long-ball assault with another two-run blast in the seventh.

Peyton Walker picked up the pitching win, giving up five hits and one earned run in the first five innings before Abbie Lancaster threw the final two frames.  Walker improved to 17-4 on the season.
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