Published: March 06, 2007
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. – The St. John’s softball team continued its
spring break roadtrip in the Lonestar State on Tuesday, playing
Texas-San Antonio in a single game. The Red Storm took a 9-1 loss
in a shortened five-inning outing.
Aimee Murray’s three run home run in the first inning put the
Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners up 3-0. Junior pitcher Lisa
Geer bounced back by striking out two of the next three
batters and five overall. Murray gave Geer problems all day though,
hitting her second homer of the day in the bottom of the third and
giving Texas-San Antonio a 5-0 lead.
Senior right-handed pitcher Kim Lerch came in
during the fourth inning to face Murray in her third at bat of the
day and struck her out swinging. Lerch fanned three of the five
batters she faced in the frame but the Roadrunners could not be
contained as they scored four runs in the fourth, taking a 9-0
advantage
The Red Storm would not go down without a fight, starting out
the top of the fifth with back-to-back hits from freshman catcher
Tiffany D’Alessandro and junior left fielder
Bionka King. Centerfielder Shauntaine
Harris was walked to load the bases and freshman
Brandy Reyes came in to pinch hit. Reyes’s
sacrifice fly scored D’Alessandro and gave St. John’s its first run
of the day. The eight-run deficit was too much to overcome as the
Red Storm fell 9-1 in five innings.
D’Alessandro was not the only rookie to come through offensively
as Harris posted St. John’s first hit of the day with a single up
the middle in the third.
St. John’s will continue its tour of Texas, Wednesday, March 7
with a doubleheader against Texas State, beginning at 5 p.m.