Liberty University
0-2
Duke
2-2
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Runs R | Hits H | Errors E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 0 |
| Liberty | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
No. 16 Duke Outlasts Liberty 8-5 in 8 Innings
2/10/2023 11:49:20 PM | Softball
Liberty, playing its second extra-inning contest in as many days, overcame an early 4-0 deficit before tying Duke at 5-5. The Blue Devils scored three unanswered runs in the eighth for the 8-5 win over the Lady Flames, Friday at Bill Barber Park as part of the Mark Campbell Collegiate Invitational.
Duke evened its record to 2-2 with a pair of wins today, while the Lady Flames (0-2) fell 1-0 to No. 1 Oklahoma in eight innings last night before dropping an eight-inning game to Duke today.
Scoring Summary
Duke – 1st INNING – Watson singles to center, Vega and Davis score, 2-0
Duke – 1st INNING – Gold triples to right, Rodriguez scores, 3-0
Duke – 2nd INNING – Vega singles to center, Jennings scores, 4-0
Liberty – 2nd INNING – Wilson singles to center, Soto and Roupe score, 4-2
Duke – 3rd INNING – Goddard singles up the middle, Gold scores, 5-2
Liberty – 3rd INNING – Hudson homers to left center, Hudson and Howard score, 5-4
Liberty – 5th INNING – Tuck advances to third on wild pitch, Howard scores on wild pitch, 5-5
Duke – 8th INNING – Jennings singles to shortstop, Goddard scores, 6-5
Duke – 8th INNING – Davis doubles to right center, Jennings scores, 7-5
Duke – 8th INNING – Vega grounds out to first, Davis scores, 8-5
Notable Numbers
- Duke outhit Liberty 14-6 for the game, with the Lady Flames committing the game’s only two errors. The Blue Devils left 10 on base, while Liberty stranded two.
- Jala Wright (1-1) earned the win with five innings of relief, striking out nine while allowing one run on one hit and walking one.
- Paige Bachman (0-1) drew the loss, yielding four runs (three earned) on eight hits, striking out a career-high seven batters in 6 1/3 innings of relief pitching.
- Deja Davis batted 2-for-5 with a double, two runs scored and one RBI from Duke, while Aminah Vega went 2-for-5 with two RBI and Ana Gold hit 2-for-4 with a triple, one run scored and one RBI. Kristiana Watson drove in two runs.
- Liberty’s Caroline Hudson batted 2-for-4 with a homer, two RBI and one run scores, while Alexis Soto (1-for-3) doubled and scored. Devyn Howard went 1-for-3 with two runs scored.
Turning Point
- With Liberty trailing, Bachman held the Devils down from the fourth through seventh innings, retiring 11 out of the last 12 batters through the end of the seventh.
- Liberty tied the game at 5-5 when Howard scored from third on a wild pitch with one out in the fifth. However, Maddy Tuck finished the inning stuck on third base.
- Duke scored three times with the International tiebreaker in effect to build an 8-5 lead in the eighth, while Wright struck out all three batters she faced in the eighth to wrap up the win.
Beyond the Box Score
- Duke leads the all-time series against the Lady Flames, 3-2. The last meeting between the two teams before today came in the 2022 NCAA Durham Regional, a 5-0 Duke win.
- Devyn Howard has had a hit in each of her last seven games, including the last five games of the 2022 season and tonight.
- Hudson’s homer gave her 21 for her career. She hit a career-high 17 homers last season, tying the program’s single-season record for homers by a catcher.
- Bachman struck out all three batts she faced in the sixth inning today. That was the first time since May 20, 2022 against Georgia (Emily Kirby, 1st inning) that a Lady Flame struck out three batters in an inning.
- This is the first time that the Lady Flames played back-to-back extra-inning games since March 13-14, 2022, when Liberty dropped back-to-back eight-inning games at Clemson.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Jala Wright (1-1)
L: Bachman, Paige (0-1)
Batting:
2B: Deja Davis 1 ; D'Auna Jennings 1
3B: Ana Gold 1
RBI: Deja Davis 1 ; Aminah Vega 2 ; Kristiana Watson 2 ; Ana Gold 1 ; Sarah Goddard 1 ; D'Auna Jennings 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Deja Davis 2 ; Aminah Vega 1 ; Kairi Rodriguez 1 ; Ana Gold 1 ; Sarah Goddard 1 ; D'Auna Jennings 2
SB: Deja Davis 1 ; Aminah Vega 1 ; Kamryn Jackson 1
Batting:
2B: Soto, Alexis 1
HR: Hudson, Caroline 1
RBI: Hudson, Caroline 2 ; Wilson, Mary Claire 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Howard, Devyn 2 ; Hudson, Caroline 1 ; Roupe, Rachel 1 ; Soto, Alexis 1
SB: Tuck, Maddy 1
CS: Wilson, Mary Claire 1
HBP: Roupe, Rachel 1
