Softball Upsets No. 2 Seed Morningside in GPAC Tournament
Sioux City, IA – The Hastings College softball team picked up a gutsy pitching effort plus some timely hitting to upset No. 2 seed Morningside 3-1 to open the Great Plains Athletic Conference Tournament on Wednesday morning.
Sioux City, IA – The Hastings College softball team picked up a gutsy pitching effort plus some timely hitting to upset No. 2 seed Morningside 3-1 to open the Great Plains Athletic Conference Tournament on Wednesday morning.
Kyleigh Boever faced little trouble from the Mustang offense through the first five innings allowing just one base runner on just one hit.
This allowed the offense to generate some momentum as Rayleigh Guyer led the third inning off with a single to left. She advanced to second on a sac bunt from Sydney Schelkopf. With two outs, the hot bat of Macie Mays came up huge with a RBI single up the middle allowing Guyer to score from second for the 1-0 lead.
That lead carried into the sixth when Lauren Schneider picked up a one out double and then with two outs, Taylor Stuhr blasted a her fifth home run of the season over the left center field fence to make it 3-0.
But Morningside would put up a fight picking up a run in the bottom of the sixth with a strange infield single that eventually allowed the runner to score from second.
Hastings then went quietly in the seventh and then Boever faced some trouble in the bottom of the seventh as Morningside loaded the bases with just one out. But Boever settled in striking out Taylor Richter and then coerced the game ending ground out to Lexie Mudloff at second to complete the upset.
Boever went 7.0 innings giving up one run on just four hits with four strikeouts.
Stuhr led the way at the plate going 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a run scored.
The Lady Broncos lost to Midland 8-0 in the winners bracket game and will now move to an elimination game and will play the winner of the Jamestown and Morningside game tomorrow at noon in Sioux City, IA.
