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Lady Jaguars softball team defeated the Prairie View A&M
Lady Panthers 5-2, 10-0 and 9-7 in the 2010 season series
finale on "the bluff". The contests were Southwestern
Athletic Conference Western Division games in which SU is
currently in second place.
Southern (15-26, 12-5 SWAC) collected 10 team hits for
their seventh contest of the season. Senior pitcher Lanaya
Jenkins posted her 11th win going seven innings giving up
two runs and striking out four. This was Jenkins third
straight season with double digit wins.
Friday's matchup saw all but one batter in the SU lineup
record a hit. Freshman Shawtall Steamer went 2 of 3 with two
RBI's and a run. Junior Victoria Stewart ended the game 2 of
3 from the plate with and RBI while red-shirt junior Jasmone
Williams picked up two hits, a run and an RBI.
Saturday, April 17, brought Senior Day for four seniors
who were enjoying there final regular season home contests.
April Augustine, Aruba Nicholas, Brittany Hymes and Lanaya
Jenkins wore their Blue and Gold all started the first match
the day.
With its senior lineup in the game SU scored in the first
three innings to take a 10-0 lead and eventually the game
winning in five innings. The Lady Jaguars posted 11 hits as
the team marked the eighth occasion in 2010 they produced
double digit hits in a contest.
Once again all but one Lady Jag recorded a hit. Steamer
led the way going 3 for 3 with three runs and four RBI's and
her second homerun of the year. Williams also batted 1.000
with two runs, two hits, and an RBI. Jenkins picked up her
12th and final win of the regular season giving up one hit
and striking out four.
The season finale started with Prairie View's first run
of the day. PV's leadoff batter Artivia Woods struck out but
SU's catcher Kasha Tauriac dropped the third strike. Jasmine
Littles then hit a two base shot to right field which
allowed the speedy Woods to come all the way from first and
score. SU was not to be out-done tying the score at one in
the bottom of the first. The Lady Jaguars sophomore pitcher
Caroline Myers would then go to work holding the Lady
Panthers scoreless until the top of the fourth. Littles
stepped to the plate and singled into right field scoring
Prairie View's Elizabeth Alvarado. By that time SU was
already holding an 8-1 lead when they added to it with a Kia
Williams run in the fifth. With the score 9-2 heading into
the top of the seventh Prairie View decided to not lay down
and went on a five run, five hit inning that was finally
ended by a quick thinking Steamer who caught PV's Kesha
Haggerman's line drive that sailed over the pitchers' left
shoulder. The freshman then turned to third base and threw
out Karen Calvin to end the game.
Tauriac led SU at the plate finishing 3 for 3 with two
runs, and two runs batted in. Jasmone Williams batted 1.000
for the second straight game recording two runs and two
hits. Myers posted her second win of the season. Head coach
Nancy Marshall ends her 14th regular season at SU 15-26
overall and 12-5 in the SWAC.
"It has been an interesting season," said Marshall. "We
lost four key kids but April Augustine stepped up on the
field and really came around as a senior. I cannot give
enough praise to that kid for what she's done."
SU will have a week and a half off before they venture to
Irondale, Alabama for the 2010 SWAC softball postseason
tournament.
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