TUESDAY'S SCORES
SIUE 3, Penn 1
@Miami (Ohio) 7,
Eastern Kentucky 2
SIUE 3, PENN 1
CLEARWATER, Fla. - SIUE softball ran its record to 12-4 Tuesday with a 3-1 victory over Penn during the opening day of its spring break trip to Florida.
Haley Chambers-Book improved her season record to 7-3 with a four-hitter. The Cougar left-hander fanned 11 for her fourth outing of the season recording double digits in strikeouts.
SIUE scored all of the runs it needed in the third inning on four straight two-out hits off Penn starter Alexis Sargent.
Reagan Curtis picked up the first hit, a double. She scored on a single to right field by Allison Smiley. After Kalei Kaneshiro singled, Tess Eby added an RBI single to left field that drove home Smiley.
Penn, 3-3, scored its lone run in the fifth inning of a bases-loaded walk by Sarah Cwiertnia.
Chambers-Book helped her own cause with an RBI single in the sixth, scoring Conner Cutright.
SIUE outhit Penn 8-4.
The Cougars continue their road trip tomorrow with two games. The day begins with a 9 a.m. contest against South Dakota State followed by an 11 a.m. game against LaSalle.
MIAMI (OHIO) 7, EASTERN KENTUCKY 2
OXFORD, Ohio - Eastern Kentucky took a 2-0 lead, but Miami (Ohio) scored seven unanswered to win 7-2 on Tuesday.
A pair of sacrifice flies by Brittany Oldaker and Amber Murray gave the Colonels (6-10) a 2-0 lead in the top of the second inning. However, the Redhawks (8-11) scored three in the bottom of the inning, two of which came on a double by Michaela Schlattman, and never trailed again.
It remained a one-run game until Miami platted four more in the bottom of the sixth on a grand slam by Lauren Anderson.
Mia Sanchez finished 2-for-4 for Eastern Kentucky. Schlattman had a 3-for-4 day with a run and two RBIs for the Redhawks.