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Photo by: Thomas Campbell/Texas A&M Athletics
No. 7 Aggies Blank Prairie View, 15-0
Mar 22, 2017 | Softball
COLLEGE STATION – The No. 7 Texas A&M Softball team posted their largest victory of the season with a 15-0 win over the Prairie View A&M Lady Panthers Wednesday night at the Aggie Softball Complex.
The Aggies (26-2) had both sides of the ball clicking in their shutout victory. Aggie bats posted crooked numbers in every frame and the pitching staff allowed only one Panther to reach base. The 15-run margin was Texas A&M's largest since a 21-0 victory over San Diego in March of 2016.
Trinity Harrington (7-1), making her eighth start of the year, retired all nine Panthers she faced over her three innings of work. The junior fanned four, not allowing a ball to leave the infield. She was relieved by Payton McBride who completed the shutout. The lone Panther baserunner reached on infield hit to begin the fourth. Aggie pitching used just 50 pitches in the ballgame and combined for six strikeouts throwing only nine balls.
The Maroon and White wasted no time posting a four-run first. Kaitlyn Alderink started the inning with a one-out single and was followed up by Riley Sartain reaching on an error. Consecutive doubles from Ashley Walters and Sarah Hudek gave the Aggies a 3-0 advantage. McBride singled home the final run of the frame with a single to right.
Tori Vidales began the second with line-drive homer off Panther starter Taylor Drury (3-8). The laser just cleared the left field wall for Vidales' fifth dinger of the season. The Aggies would make it back-to-back four-run innings with the big hit delivered on Kristen Cuyos' two-run single.
In the third, Reagan Boenker went opposite field with a two-run blast, her first of the season. In their final at bats, the Aggies posted a five-spot aided by a pair Panther errors and two walks.
In just four innings at bat, 11 different Aggies scored and 10 different Aggies recorded a base hit. They finished with six walks and just one strike out.
Texas A&M returns to action Friday with a three-game series against Missouri at the Aggie Softball complex. The Sunday game will be available on ESPNU and the first two games be seen on the SEC Network +, available through WatchESPN and the ESPN app. Each game can be heard locally on Willy 1550 AM.
To learn more about Texas A&M softball, log on to 12thMan.com or follow @AggieSoftball on Twitter.
Texas A&M Quotes
Head Coach Jo Evans
On the freshmen getting playing time…
"It's important. That's our future, those freshmen out there. I was happy to see Miranda Miles go up there and get quality at bats and get herself a hit. Payton McBride has looked good all week at the plate. It's nice to see her be able to go out there and hit in the DP spot and pitch some really good innings for us. Kelbi Fortenberry started for us in center and got her opportunity. Blake-Ann Fritsch got her first at bat and hit the ball well, just got caught at the warning track. So it's nice to see those kids come in and get some time and have their teammates pull for them."
On playing Missouri this weekend…
"They swept us last year, that's all I think about. This is a team that we've had great games against. We always have hard fought games with them. They're very well coached and fundamentally sound. They lost their two ace pitchers who transferred out but last year we lost to Baumgartner who is still on their staff. It's a team that gets up there and swings the bat. We don't take them lightly whatsoever so we know we're going to have to play really well to beat them."
The Aggies (26-2) had both sides of the ball clicking in their shutout victory. Aggie bats posted crooked numbers in every frame and the pitching staff allowed only one Panther to reach base. The 15-run margin was Texas A&M's largest since a 21-0 victory over San Diego in March of 2016.
Trinity Harrington (7-1), making her eighth start of the year, retired all nine Panthers she faced over her three innings of work. The junior fanned four, not allowing a ball to leave the infield. She was relieved by Payton McBride who completed the shutout. The lone Panther baserunner reached on infield hit to begin the fourth. Aggie pitching used just 50 pitches in the ballgame and combined for six strikeouts throwing only nine balls.
The Maroon and White wasted no time posting a four-run first. Kaitlyn Alderink started the inning with a one-out single and was followed up by Riley Sartain reaching on an error. Consecutive doubles from Ashley Walters and Sarah Hudek gave the Aggies a 3-0 advantage. McBride singled home the final run of the frame with a single to right.
Tori Vidales began the second with line-drive homer off Panther starter Taylor Drury (3-8). The laser just cleared the left field wall for Vidales' fifth dinger of the season. The Aggies would make it back-to-back four-run innings with the big hit delivered on Kristen Cuyos' two-run single.
In the third, Reagan Boenker went opposite field with a two-run blast, her first of the season. In their final at bats, the Aggies posted a five-spot aided by a pair Panther errors and two walks.
In just four innings at bat, 11 different Aggies scored and 10 different Aggies recorded a base hit. They finished with six walks and just one strike out.
Texas A&M returns to action Friday with a three-game series against Missouri at the Aggie Softball complex. The Sunday game will be available on ESPNU and the first two games be seen on the SEC Network +, available through WatchESPN and the ESPN app. Each game can be heard locally on Willy 1550 AM.
To learn more about Texas A&M softball, log on to 12thMan.com or follow @AggieSoftball on Twitter.
Texas A&M Quotes
Head Coach Jo Evans
On the freshmen getting playing time…
"It's important. That's our future, those freshmen out there. I was happy to see Miranda Miles go up there and get quality at bats and get herself a hit. Payton McBride has looked good all week at the plate. It's nice to see her be able to go out there and hit in the DP spot and pitch some really good innings for us. Kelbi Fortenberry started for us in center and got her opportunity. Blake-Ann Fritsch got her first at bat and hit the ball well, just got caught at the warning track. So it's nice to see those kids come in and get some time and have their teammates pull for them."
On playing Missouri this weekend…
"They swept us last year, that's all I think about. This is a team that we've had great games against. We always have hard fought games with them. They're very well coached and fundamentally sound. They lost their two ace pitchers who transferred out but last year we lost to Baumgartner who is still on their staff. It's a team that gets up there and swings the bat. We don't take them lightly whatsoever so we know we're going to have to play really well to beat them."
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Harrington, Trinity (7-1)
L: T. Drury (3-8)
Batting:
2B: Miles, Miranda 1 ; Walters, Ashley 1 ; Hudek, Sarah 1 ; Cuyos, Kristen 1
HR: Vidales, Tori 1 ; Boenker, Reagan 1
RBI: Vidales, Tori 1 ; Miles, Miranda 1 ; Boenker, Reagan 2 ; Walters, Ashley 2 ; Massey, Celena 1 ; Hudek, Sarah 1 ; Cuyos, Kristen 2 ; McBride, Payton 3
SF: Massey, Celena 1 ; McBride, Payton 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Vidales, Tori 1 ; Miles, Miranda 2 ; Alderink, Kaitlyn 2 ; Sartain, Riley 1 ; Boenker, Reagan 2 ; Walters, Ashley 1 ; Hudek, Sarah 2 ; Houthoofd, Erin 1 ; Cuyos, Kristen 1 ; McBride, Payton 1 ; Fortenberry, Kelbi 1
SB: Alderink, Kaitlyn 2 ; Sartain, Riley 1 ; Milligan, Keeli 1
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