April 29, 2009

Final Stats

GREENSBORO, N.C.- The Lady Eagles of North Carolina Central University faced it chief-rival the Lady Aggies of North Carolina A&T State University in its season finale on Tuesday afternoon in a rare tripleheader of sorts at the Lady Aggie Softball Complex. The Eagles lost the continued game from April 2, 11-9, and got swept in the doubleheader 10-1, and 3-2.

Both the Aggies and the Eagles had to finish a contest that was halted due to heavy rain back on April 2, with the game tied at 4, and A&T at-bat with runners at second and third and two outs. The Lady Aggies scored two runs to pull ahead 6-4. A&T added two more runs in the top of the seventh to widen the margin to 8-4.

The bottom of the seventh saw the Eagle bats get revved up with five clutch hits to tie the ballgame up at 8-8, sending the contest to extra innings.

In the extra frame, the Lady Aggies put up three runs while the Lady Eagles could only get one run across the board falling in the continued ballgame from April 2 11-9.

In the doubleheader, NCCU fell behind 5-0 after the second inning, and could not recover dropping a 10-1 decision after five innings.

The Lady Eagles and Lady Aggies saved the best for last in game two of the twinbill. A&T struck first with a run in the second inning, and the Eagles battled right back to score a run in the third thanks to singles by junior Michelle Ishida, and freshman Andrea Searls to knot the ballgame up at 1-1.

The fourth inning proved to be the visiting Eagles undoing as the Lady Aggies plated two runs to pull ahead 3-1.

NCCU did everything it could to tie the ballgame up, but a few missed opportunities down the stretch including a bases loaded threat in the fifth inning and scored just one more run falling in the final game of the season 3-2.

The Lady Eagles finished the season 5-43 in its second year of Division I competition.