MARSHALL, Texas - Continuing their win streak at home in 2023, #13 East Texas Baptist University swept Howard Payne University, 9-1, and, 11-2 in American Southwest Conference play. The Tigers are now 9-1 for the year and 4-1 in the ASC.
ETBU had two home runs with four doubles and 20 runs for the day.
Hannah Kelley and
Ashley Croft combined for five strikeouts and only one earned run.
Kassidy Cravey and
Toni Tamborello also saw work in the circle.
Combining for 18 hits, ETBU had home runs from
Tauryn Cummings and
Tristen Maddox.
ETBU 10, HPU 2 (6 inn)
Kelley pitched the first game earning her fourth win of the year going five innings recording three strikeouts. Cummings led the team with three hits and three RBI going 3-of-4. Maddox,
Delanie Loya, and
Mary Frances Ellis followed with two hits, and
Marin Musicant, Croft,
Courtney White, and
Mallory Pyle had one. Maddox had two RBI while Loya, Musicant, and Croft had one.
Maddox began the game with a run off a single by Cummings, followed by a run by White, 2-0, on a Loya sacrifice fly. The Tigers put up four runs in the second, including a home run by Maddox, 7-0. HPU scored their lone run in the fourth inning, 7-1. The game ended in the sixth after a home run by Cummings and a run by
Braelyn Buchanan, 9-1, coming in on Croft's single to left field.
ETBU 11, HPU 2 (5 inn)
Croft pitched moved to 5-0 on the year on four innings of work allowing two hits and recording two strikeouts.
ETBU recorded five hits and 11 runs in the win as Cummings had two hits, while White, Croft, and
Jalen Perez had one each. Cummings led the team with four RBI, while Maddox had two, and White, Pyle, and Musicant had one.
Cummings singled in the first run of the game as White scored followed by a hit-by-pitch and a wild pitch to score two making it, 3-0. There were four hit-by-pitches in the third inning to score four runs with the bases loaded for a 7-0 lead. They added four more runs in the fourth, two on a passed ball and error, and two on a single by Cummings to go up, 11-0. HPU added two runs in the fifth before the game was ended.
ETBU will play one more on Saturday at 12:00 p.m. to finish out the series.
