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Allie Eicher
Allie Eicher
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Central Missouri UCM 15-4, 4-1 MIAA
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Winner Central Oklahoma UCO 19-6, 8-1 MIAA
Central Missouri UCM
15-4, 4-1 MIAA
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Final
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Central Oklahoma UCO
19-6, 8-1 MIAA
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Central Missouri UCM 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 0
Central Oklahoma UCO 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 8 0

W: Lynch, Kylee (9-3) L: Petefish,Paige (5-2)

Game Recap: Softball |

Eicher Lifts UCO Past Jennies

EDMOND (March 27) – Allie Eicher delivered a clutch run-scoring single in the bottom of the eighth inning to catapult Central Oklahoma past Central Missouri 2-1 in the first game of Saturday afternoon's Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association doubleheader.
 
It was the sixth straight win – including the 16th in a row at home -- for the No. 25-ranked Bronchos, who improved to 19-6 overall and 8-1 in the league. The Jennies had a six-game winning streak snapped in falling to 15-4 and 4-1.
 
Jacee Minter started UCO's game-winning rally with a one-out walk and Hazel Puempel followed with a single to left-center field. Eicher didn't waste time coming through, driving the first pitch she saw into right field to score pinch-runner Kayla Mantooth from second and give the Bronchos the dramatic victory.
 
Kylee Lynch earned the pitching win with a gutsy complete-game performance, giving up five hits and one walk to a UCM team that entered the contest batting a league-leading .360. The freshman southpaw threw 119 pitches in improving to 9-3 on the season.
 
The game was a pitcher's duel throughout and neither team really threatened until the sixth when UCO broke a scoreless deadlock on Minter's line-drive solo home run to left field into a stiff wind.
 
The Jennies scored their lone run on a two-out, two-strike double in the top of the seventh to force extra innings.
 
Central finished with eight hits, led by Puempel's 3-for-4 outing. Minter and Brighton Gilbert had two hits each and Eicher one, which was the biggest of the game.
 
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