Softballl DH @DePaul cancelled today

[Papa_Bull]

Saturday Softball Doubleheader Cancelled

5/1/2004

CHICAGO - The DePaul/USF Conference USA doubleheader has been cancelled today.  The games will be made up Sunday beginning at Noon.

[smazza]

ok

[Guest BasketBull.]

What happened? Were the fans too loud?

[ChiTownBull]

the weather sucked here yesterday

today is nice and sunny...but chilly 50 degrees

[Papa_Bull]

Groves Two Home Runs Lead USF to 6-3 Victory Over DePaul

CHICAGO - Two home runs by Holly Groves sparked an eight-hit, 6-3 victory for the USF softball team in game one of a doubleheader against DePaul Sunday afternoon at Wish Field. Groves home runs were her 15th and 16th of the season and upped her nationally-ranked RBI total to 75.

She put the Bulls (50-9, 18-4) on the board in the second inning with a solo shot over the right center fence, and then junior Carmela Liwag added an RBI double in the third inning to give USF a 2-0 advantage.

Two more runs in the fifth and Groves’ two-run knock over the left center fence in the seventh put the Bulls nearly out of reach of the Blue Demons, but a struggling defense in the bottom of the seventh nearly cost USF the game.

Three errors allowed three runs in the final half inning for DePaul while starting pitcher Leigh Ann Ellis gave up one of her six hits on the game in the final inning.

Pitching a complete game in which she allowed no earned runs, Ellis picked up the win to move to 34-4 on the season, while DePaul pitcher Katie Sheaks fell to 1-5 overall.

The Bulls will look for a sweep in the second game of the doubleheader

[smazza]

go ladybulls

[ChiTownBull]

Groves Two Home Runs Lead USF to 6-3 Victory Over DePaul

CHICAGO - Two home runs by Holly Groves sparked an eight-hit, 6-3 victory for the USF softball team in game one of a doubleheader against DePaul Sunday afternoon at Wish Field. Groves home runs were her 15th and 16th of the season and upped her nationally-ranked RBI total to 75.

She put the Bulls (50-9, 18-4) on the board in the second inning with a solo shot over the right center fence, and then junior Carmela Liwag added an RBI double in the third inning to give USF a 2-0 advantage.

Two more runs in the fifth and Groves’ two-run knock over the left center fence in the seventh put the Bulls nearly out of reach of the Blue Demons, but a struggling defense in the bottom of the seventh nearly cost USF the game.

Three errors allowed three runs in the final half inning for DePaul while starting pitcher Leigh Ann Ellis gave up one of her six hits on the game in the final inning.

Pitching a complete game in which she allowed no earned runs, Ellis picked up the win to move to 34-4 on the season, while DePaul pitcher Katie Sheaks fell to 1-5 overall.

The Bulls will look for a sweep in the second game of the doubleheader

Wow...How many games do they play in a season?

[Papa_Bull]

Bulls Split Doubleheader with DePaul on Sunday

The USF softball team split a pair of games against the DePaul Blue Demons Sunday afternoon at Wish Field with a 6-3 win in game one and a 6-0 loss in game two, the first time all season the Bulls have been shut out. Senior Holly Groves sparked the Bulls in game one with two home runs, her 15th and 16th of the season, which upped her RBI total to 75.

She put the Bulls (50-10, 18-5) on the board in the second inning with a solo shot over the right center fence, and then junior Carmela Liwag added an RBI double in the third inning to give USF a 2-0 advantage.

Two more runs in the fifth and Groves’ two-run knock over the left center fence in the seventh put the Bulls nearly out of reach of the Blue Demons, but a struggling defense in the bottom of the seventh nearly cost USF the game.

Three errors allowed three runs in the final half inning for DePaul while starting pitcher Leigh Ann Ellis gave up one of her six hits on the game in the final inning.

Pitching a complete game in which she allowed no earned runs, Ellis picked up the win to move to 34-4 on the season, while DePaul pitcher Katie Sheaks fell to 1-5 overall.

Groves led the Bulls with a 2-for-4 effort with two runs and three RBI, while Samantha Ray followed closely, going 2-for-3 with a run.

In game two, the defense problems that began in game one carried over, and the Bulls committed two errors in the bottom of the first, allowing the Blue Demons to take an early 1-0 lead.

That lead stretched to three in the fifth off a USF error and three DePaul hits, and the Blue Demons managed their final three runs in the sixth off another USF error and two hits.

In total the Bulls committed four errors in the game and countered that with only two hits, both from Christie Chapman.

Freshman starting pitcher Kasey Cash picked up the loss after pitching four and two-thirds innings and giving up six hits, but only one earned run and striking out three.

With Conference USA play over, the Bulls will wrap up their intra-state travel with a doubleheader at Jacksonville on Wednesday, one at UCF on Friday and will host Stetson in a douleheader at home on Sunday.

[smazza]

is depaul any good or was this a monumental upset?

[bulls96go]

we rule. next