LUBBOCK, Texas (March 13, 2018)
– The Lubbock Christian University Lady Chaparrals return home to face Rogers State University in a midweek Heartland Conference doubleheader at PlainsCapital Park set for a 1:00 p.m. start.
LCU LEADERS
The Lady Chaps enter the contest with an overall record of 13-8, following three consecutive walk-off loses at the hands of Heartland foe St. Mary's. LCU is 9-1 this season at PlainsCapital Park. The Lady Chaps are hitting .264 as a team, led by
Annika Schwartzenberg (.389).
Lindzi Clemmer leads the team in runs scored (19), hits (25) and total bases (52).
Morgan Dufour leads the team in home runs (8), slugging percentage (.810) and runs batted in (23). The Lady Chaps are 17
th in the country in home runs per game at 1.11.
Courtney Medina leads the Lady Chaps in stolen bases with 12, and as a team they are 17
th in the nation with 2.28 stolen bases per game. In the circle,
Monique Francois leads LCU with an 8-3 record and a 2.29 earned run average. She also holds the most innings pitched (76.1) and most strikeouts (68), while opponents are only hitting .212 against her.
ABOUT RSU
The Hillcats are hitting .294 as a team and are led by Allie McFetridge, who is hitting .416 with a .584 slugging percentage. McFetridge also leads the Hillcats in hits with 32. Danelle Day leads RSU in home runs (11), total bases (66) and runs batted in (35). The Hillcats are seventh in the nation in home runs per game with 1.35. In the circle, the Hillcats are led by Tallee Reding with a 1.60 earned run average and a 7-0 record. Andrea Morales leads RSU with 57.1 innings pitched. Alex Brake tops Rogers State with four shutouts and 39 strikeouts. As a team RSU is 10
th in the country with six shutout victories. The Hillcats are coming off a three game sweep of St. Edward's this past weekend.
THE SERIES vs. RSU
The Lady Chaps first faced the Hillcats on March 28, 2008 as NAIA Sooner Athletic Conference members losing 4-3 in nine innings. LCU has since won 23 of the next 24 meetings.
PREVIOUS MEETING
CLAREMORE, Okla. (April 24, 2017) –
Katera Eltsosie's back-to-back grand slam home runs in game one and
Addison Ard's three home runs on the day help the Lubbock Christian University Lady Chaparrals complete the series sweep of Rogers State 11-3 and 12-3 Monday at the Diamond Sports Complex on the RSU campus in Claremore, Okla.
The Lady Chaps (33-15) got behind early with Rogers State (27-22) jumping on the scoreboard in the first inning scoring two runs when Hillcat first baseman Taylor Santistevan singled down the right field line two score Harli Wheeler and Kenzi Lloyd. RSU added another run in the third inning when Lloyd was safe at home on a double-steal attempt to go up 3-0.
With only one hit through the first four innings the Lady Chaps got eight hits in the final two innings of play. In the fifth inning
Lindzi Clemmer got the Lady Chaps on the scoreboard with a sacrifice fly to center field to score
Casey Ingram. Then with the bases loaded
Katera Eltsosie jacked a ball over scoring herself along with
Sara Ralston,
Courtney Medina and
Sydney Beuthien.
Addison Ard immediately followed with a solo-shot to put LCU up 6-3. In the sixth inning Medina drove in Ingram prior to Eltsosie coming up again with the bases loaded to hit her second grand slam home run of the game in as many at bats to complete the scoring with the Lady Chaps up 11-3.
Monique Garcia (10-6) started in the circle for the Lady Chaps and went the distance allowing three runs off six hits striking out seven Hillcats on way to her 10th victory this season. Edie Fairchild (3-3) got the start for Rogers State pitching 5.1 innings giving up 10 runs on seven hits while walking six to suffer her sixth loss of the year. Mayra Helguera came in to get the final two outs giving up a run on two hits.
In game two the Lady Chaps scored four runs in the first inning, the first coming when Beuthien doubled down the left field line off the third base bag to drive in Medina. Eltsosie would hit a sacrifice fly to right field to plate Ingram.
Addison Ard followed with a home run to left field before
Haley Hardison drove in Clemmer. In the second inning Beuthien hit a solo bomb over the center field fence to add another run and a sacrifice fly in the third inning off the bat of
Logan Grado scored Ard to put LCU up 6-0.
The Lady Chaps scored three more runs in the fifth inning to go up 9-0 when Ard led off the inning with a shot over the left field fence that cleared the outer fence of the complex went over the road and ended up in the pasture across the street.
Averi Miller doubled to score
Adelae Vayas and Medina drove in Miller. LCU would allow the Hillcats to score three in the bottom half of the fifth to keep the game going. In the sixth Eltsosie hit a solo blast over the left field fence to put LCU up 10-3. Then in the seventh Eltsosie hit a shot to right center field to score Beuthien from first base before Ard's hit to right field brought Eltsosie home to complete the scoring.
Katlyn Holmes (7-4) started for the Lady Chaps in the circle going 4.2 innings allowing three runs off four hits striking out four to notch her seventh win of 2017. Eltsosie came in to throw the final 2.1 innings not giving up any runs on one hit striking out three more Hillcats. Edie Fairchild (3-4) got the start for RSU and went the distance giving up 12 runs off 17 hits walking six to fall for the fourth time this year.
Eltsosie's back-to-back grand slam home runs are a first for the LCU as no other Lady Chap has ever had two grand slams in the same game, much less in back-to-back plate appearances. Her eight runs-batted-in for the game set a Heartland Conference single-game record for the most in a game this season and ties her for the LCU single-game record set by Kim Frazier back on February 19, 2010 against Graceland University and is the fifth most runs produced in a single game this season in all of NCAA Div. II.
