Another Day of Shutout Softball for the Eagles
Laurinburg, NC - The Eagles are quietly putting together a historical regular season. On Tuesday's doubleheader with St. Andrews, the team has wrapped up the AAC regular season lead, however, they still have one series left with CIU on Wednesday to make it official.
The Eagles won both games against St. Andrews without allowing a run. Game one was 9-0 for the Eagles and game two was 4-0. The wins put Reinhardt alone at the top of the standings with a 24-2 conference record and they are 29-9 overall. With two wins at CIU on Wednesday, the Eagles should be crowned AAC Regular Season Champions. They will need to work their way through the AAC Tournament (April 25th - 29th in Kingsport, TN), which happens next week and then they can start looking at the NAIA National Tournament.
The NAIA rankings just came out on Wednesday morning and somehow the Eagles are still sitting outside the Top 25, however, the team does not let this get to them and they just keep winning for Coach Dewes and Coach Rich.
Game One:
Ally Andriano got the start in game one for the Eagles and she pitched an incredible game striking out five batters and only allowing two hits in the shutout game (five innings). Andriano is having another solid season for the Eagles coming off the 2022 season where she led the Eagles in wins. The cobination of Andriano and Shepherd makes the Eagles one of the top pitching duos in the AAC.
Reinhardt Pitching vs St. Andrews (Game One)
PITCHERS | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ally Andriano (W, 1-0) | 5.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
Totals | 5.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
Offensively, the Eagles picked up runs in the first, second, and fourth innings to get their nine total runs. The second and fourth were their big run innings as they would score four in the second and three in the fourth. Kylie Freije tripled in the first which scored Emily Loveless and Freije was later brought home on a single by Taylor Wade.
In the second, Alexis Teems, Freije, and Molly Stevens all singled to score the four runs. In the fourth, Stevens singled to score Freije and Hannah Kate Singleton doubled to score Kyra Lightner and Taylor Wade. Overall, the Eagles had 13 hits total in the 9-0 victory.
Batting Highlights vs St. Andrews (Game One)
Reinhardt Pitching vs St. Andrews (Game Two)
PITCHERS | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whitney Shepherd (W, 1-0) | 7.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
Totals | 7.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |