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Baseball cancels game near Virginia Tech, softball overcomes losing streak |
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Thursday, 19 April 2007 |
by KATIE ANN HENDERSON
Intern Sports Reporter
The Appalachian State University baseball team’s game against Radford University was cancelled Monday due to the events at Virginia Tech University.
The game was scheduled for Tuesday, and it has not been announced if there will be a make-up date.
Radford is located just 15 minutes from Blacksburg, Va., home of Virginia Tech’s campus.
Softball
The ASU softball team defeated the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Sunday, 3-2, ending a two-game losing streak.
The Mountaineers lost the first two games of the series, 6-5 and 5-4 respectively.
In the final game, ASU sophomore Kayla Richardson held down the mound, pitching for the entire game.
Chattanooga pulled ahead early with a 2-0 lead off a Toni Hutchinson single.
ASU returned with two in the fourth off an error on the left fielder and an RBI single from senior outfielder Danielle Peters.
The score remained tied 2-2 for an additional two innings.
However, in the top of the sixth, Appalachian sophomore Brittany Gaston
hit a RBI single to clinch the lead and eventually the win.
Chattanooga threatened to return to the lead twice in the remaining two
innings, but the Mountaineers held strong to finish the weekend with
success.
ASU returns to action this weekend as they host Furman University at ASU Softball Stadium.
Men’s club volleyball
The ASU men’s club volleyball team traveled to the national tournament last weekend, finishing with a tournament record of 5-5.
To start off the weekend, the Mountaineers were tied for second in the first pool.
They defeated the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in a tiebreaker to clinch second place.
However, ASU fell to the University of Chicago in the following round.
Appalachian came back strong in the bronze division pool, grabbing a win over Sienna College.
In the next round against Xavier University, the Mountaineers fell 1-2.
After playing Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in the single-elimination round, ASU won three games.
The Mountaineers fell for the last time to North Dakota State University in the bronze division quarterfinals.
“We started ranked 48th in Division II and ended up in about 39th,”
junior team member Anthony Delima said. “The men’s team played better
than we had played all season.”
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