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McKenna Johnson
McKenna Johnson
0
Minnesota Crookston UMC 2-8
8
Winner Central Oklahoma UCO 9-6
Minnesota Crookston UMC
2-8
0
Final
8
Central Oklahoma UCO
9-6
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Minnesota Crookston UMC 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
Central Oklahoma UCO 2 5 0 1 X 8 8 0

W: Pipkin, Jordyn (4-3) L: G. Kelly (0-1)

12
Winner Central Oklahoma UCO 10-6
2
Missouri S&T MST 7-14
Winner
Central Oklahoma UCO
10-6
12
Final
2
Missouri S&T MST
7-14
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Central Oklahoma UCO 0 0 0 0 6 2 4 12 14 3
Missouri S&T MST 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 7 1

W: Ritz, Terin (5-2) L: Natalie Cuadras (0-2)

Game Recap: Softball |

UCO Takes Two On First Day Of Drury Classic

No. 12 Central Oklahoma Puts Up 20 Runs In Two Wins

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Jordyn Pipkin and Terin Ritz had dominating pitching performances to lead Central Oklahoma to a pair of opening-day wins in the Drury Classic Friday.
 
Pipkin gave up one hit and two walks with six strikeouts in an 8-0 run-rule romp over Minnesota-Crookston in the first game of the day, then Ritz scattered five hits and allowed one unearned run in a 12-2 trouncing of Missouri S&T.
 
The No. 12-ranked Bronchos improved to 10-6 with the sweep and finish off the two-day event Saturday with games against Minnesota-Duluth and host Drury.
 
"We played pretty well today," head coach Cody White said. "Our pitching was really good and we made a lot of things happen offensively. Hopefully we come back tomorrow with the same intensity."

UCO banged out 23 hits on the day, collecting nine in the opener and 14 in the second game. McKenna Johnson led the way, going 5-for-7 with five runs batted in.
 
Pipkin overwhelmed the Golden Eagles in the opening-game rout. UMC had just one runner reach second after Pipkin walked the first two batters in the second inning, but the junior right-hander bounced back with three straight strikeouts.
 
UCO broke on top 2-0 in the bottom of the first without a hit. Rylee Lemos and Emily Deramus walked and Terin Ritz was hit by pitch to load the bases, with Lemos scoring on Jacee Minter's sacrifice fly and Deramus on an error.
 
The Bronchos took control in the second, pushing across five runs on five hits.
 
Rylee Anglen got things going with a two-out single and Lemos walked before Deramus ripped a two-run double. Ritz and Minter followed with back-to-back RBI singles and Johnson's run-scoring triple upped the lead to 7-0.
 
UCO pushed across its final run in the fourth on Johnson's RBI single and Pipkin put the Golden Eagles down in order in the top of the fifth to close out the run-rule rout.
 
Ritz, Johnson and Anglen had two hits apiece to pace the offense.
 
Ritz was also strong in the circle, giving up just an unearned run in the fifth. The junior right-hander didn't walk a batter and struck out one in the first six innings before Emmy Guthrie pitched the final inning.
 
The teams were locked in a scoreless tie until the fifth when UCO erupted for six runs on six hits. The Bronchos scored twice more in the sixth and four times in the seventh to win going away.
 
Minter keyed the fifth-inning uprising with a two-run single, while Ritz, Johnson and Tatum Long added RBI hits. MST scored an unearned run in the bottom of the fifth, but the Bronchos answered in the sixth when Anglen hit a two-out double and Lemos belted a home run to right-center.
 
Ritz opened the seventh with a single, Minter doubled and both scored on Johnson's third hit of the game. Long followed with her second homer of the season, this one a shot to left field to make it 12-1.
 
The Miners scored their final run in the bottom of the seventh.

Johnson went 3-for-4 to lead a 14-hit attack, with Lemos, Ritz, Minter, Long and Anglen adding two hits each.
 
 
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