| March 6, 2005
Contact: Kyle Stephens (210) 458-4907 UTSA downs Western Michigan, 11-4 Box Score
HOUSTON – Senior Jennifer Davis set a school record with five hits and senior Jessica Ellison and junior Jessica Els drove in three runs each to lead the UTSA softball team to an 11-4 victory over Western Michigan Sunday in the final game for both teams at the Hyatt Regency Cougar Classic.
With the win, the Roadrunners improve to 15-8 overall and 4-1 in the tournament. The Broncos fall to 2-7 and 1-4. Later Sunday, Houston defeated No. 16 Nebraska for the second time in the tournament. UTSA and Houston both had just one loss for the weekend, but the Roadrunners own the tiebreaker with the 3-0 victory over the Cougars on Friday.
Davis had four singles and a triple to break the single-game record of four hits held by many. She hit .556 with a double, two triples and a home run for the weekend and now is batting .447 on the year.
UTSA jumped out to a 6-2 lead after two innings behind seven hits, including three extra for extra bases. In the top of the first, The Roadrunners pushed across three runs, all with two outs. Davis tripled to right center and following walks to sophomore Aimee Murray and junior Jessica Rogers, scored on a single through the right side of the infield by Els. Ellison followed with a single to center that plated two more runs.
WMU answered with two runs in the bottom of the first. Connie Kolokithas singled and scored on a double to right center by Amanda Heckaman, who came home on a single by Amy Fleming to cut the deficit to one at 3-2.
The Roadrunners added three more runs in the second, all with two outs again. Junior Mel Torres led off with a solo home run to left center, her fifth of the season, which chased starting pitcher Tricia VanDerSlik. Davis then singled with two outs and scored on a triple by Murray. Murray came home when the throw into third got away into the left field corner.
The Broncos got back to within three on a solo blast by Heckaman in the bottom of the third, but UTSA struck for two more in the top of the fourth on a long blast over the center field fence by senior Krystal Gibson that scored Torres, who had reached on a walk.
UTSA struck for three more in the sixth, again all with two outs. Davis singled for her fourth hit of the day, Murray walked and Rogers singled in the infield to load the bases. Els singled to center, scoring two and Ellison dropped an RBI-single into left center to increase the lead to 11-3.
WMU scored a run in the bottom of the sixth as Heckaman doubled to left and scored on a single to right by Fleming.
Sophomore Ursula Mares struck out five batters and allowed three runs on five hits over four innings in running her record to 7-4 on the season. VanDerSlik gave up four runs on five hits in just one inning in the loss.
The Roadrunners host Evansville on Tuesday, March 8, at 1 p.m., before traveling to Austin for a doubleheader at Texas on Wednesday at 5 p.m.
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