Indiana softball squanders non-conference opportunity, run-ruled against Notre Dame

Indiana softball traveled to South Bend to tackle the College of Notre Dame Wednesday with an opportunity to defeat the Preventing Irish however allowed 9 unanswered runs en path to a 9-1 loss in six innings.  

Coming off a stellar closing effort towards the College of Louisville at house, sophomore pitcher Brianna Copeland suffered her first lack of the season, bringing her file to 15-1. 

With defensive errors costing the Hoosiers two losses towards Minnesota on April 8 and 9, mishaps within the discipline occurred once more towards Louisville on Tuesday and towards Notre Dame in Wednesday’s defeat. Freshman utility participant Avery Parker, redshirt junior catcher Lindsey Warick and Copeland all had an error to their identify towards the Preventing Irish. 

Though the center infielders in freshman second baseman Taryn Kern and junior shortstop Brooke Benson have made a number of spotlight reel performs all through the season, they lead the group with 11 and 10 errors, respectively. 

The Hoosiers lead the Massive Ten in errors with a complete of 53, only a yr faraway from main the Massive Ten with 76 errors within the 2021-22 season. Workforce 50’s fielding share of 0.956 ranks twelfth out of the 14 Massive Ten colleges. After defeating Louisville, head coach Shonda Stanton burdened that protection is the important thing for Indiana throughout the remainder of the season.  

“We let (Louisville) again in it with among the errors,” Stanton mentioned. “That lack of unpolluted (protection) goes to be the distinction for us the remainder of the way in which.” 

Workforce 50’s schedule doesn’t get any simpler the remainder of the month of April with three-game units towards Nebraska and Michigan, two groups who rank within the prime 50 of the RPI. 

With a collection towards Nebraska on the horizon for Friday, April 14, Indiana’s protection will look to enhance upon errors which have led to shedding three of the final 4 video games.  

This weekend will carry a possibility for Indiana to rack up wins towards one other high quality opponent in Nebraska, a group who’s coming off successful the Massive Ten in 2022. The Cornhuskers at present maintain an general file of 27-13 and stand at 7-4 in convention play. Every of the three video games this weekend will probably be televised on B1G+. 

This story will probably be up to date. 

Observe reporters Austin Platt (@AustinPlatter) and Dalton James (@DaltonMJames) for updates all through the softball season.