South Dakota
Eamiguel reaches 200 career hits on Senior Day Saturday – University of South Dakota Athletics
VERMILLION, S.D.—Omaha broke a two-way tie for second place within the Summit League standings by sweeping South Dakota in a doubleheader Saturday at Nygaard Discipline. Scores have been 8-1 and 10-3.
Omaha junior pitcher Kamryn Meyer was dominant within the circle all through, and that is an understatement. She obtained 19 of the 21 outs in sport one by way of the strikeout. That adopted an 18-strikeout efficiency final week in opposition to St. Thomas. Meyer entered play rating seventh nationally in strikeouts per seven innings.
However she wasn’t accomplished. After the Mavericks rallied to take a 6-3 lead within the high of the fifth inning of sport two, Meyer relieved starter Sydney Nuismer with one on and no person out. An out of the bottom paths adopted by two strikeouts ended the inning. Meyer struck out six batters in sport two to earn her second save of the season. A seventh-inning double by Gabby Moser was the one hit she allowed within the nightcap.
The highest of Omaha’s order offered loads of offense throughout a day through which groups battled 40-60 mile per hour winds along with one another. Leadoff batter Izzy Eltze was 7-for-9 with a house run and 4 RBIs. Lynsey Tucker was 4-for-7 with a double and three runs scored. Jamie White hit her seventh and eighth dwelling runs of the 12 months throughout a three-hit, five-RBI efficiency.
It was Senior Day for South Dakota and the spotlight of sport one was an RBI single by Coyote shortstop Lauren Eamiguel which went for her 200th profession hit. She is the eighth participant in program historical past to succeed in that plateau and it got here whereas making her 200th profession begin at brief. Eamiguel had two hits on the day.
Moser hit a two-run homer and Rylee Nicholson added a solo shot that put South Dakota forward 3-1 by means of three innings of sport two. A game-tying, two-run single by Omaha shortstop Maggie O’Brien within the high of the fourth swung the momentum and the Mavericks by no means gave it again. White’s two-run homer within the fifth put Omaha forward for good.
Omaha (22-12) moved to 10-4 within the Summit League standings whereas South Dakota (23-19) fell to 8-6. The third and last sport of the collection is about for 11 a.m. Sunday.