Softball sweeps PSU
Softball had what will probably hold up as its easiest weekend of the season, blowing away PSU to the tune of 6-0, 22-0 (!) (5 inn.), and 12-4 (5 inn.). There's not a whole ton to say about individual performances in a domination of that magnitude, but a couple points jump out. Michigan had two separate hitters go 4-for-4 over the weekend (Romero in game 2, Sappingfield in game 3). Romero is pushing the top in the country in batting average, on-base percentage (#1 in the nation coming into the weekend), and slugging percentage.
Meanwhile, in the circle Haylie Wagner was absolutely dominant. On Friday, she took a perfecto through 6.1 innings, ultimately completing a complete-game one-hitter. She took a no-no into the 5th on Saturday, before stumbling a bit, at which point Driesenga stepped in and shut the door. Wagner has pushed well into the top-ten nationally in ERA.
All in all, it was a pretty simple task this weekend against a wildly over-matched PSU squad. Next weekend Michigan will host a middling OSU team that swept a dreadful Sparty outfit last weekend and dropped the first game of their series with Indiana this weekend.
Elsewhere in the Big Ten, Minnesota is quickly emerging as Michigan's major competition, taking 2-of-3 from Nebraska last weekend and dominating Illinois thus this weekend. Nebraska also took a loss to Northwestern this weekend, putting them 3 games back of Michigan in the loss column.
March 29th, 2014 at 10:11 PM ^
March 29th, 2014 at 10:21 PM ^
March 29th, 2014 at 10:46 PM ^
Yeah, I don't think anyone ever leaves softball early. There's really no reason to do so. The fact that Sierra Romero is just a sophomore (not to mention other great talents - the other Sierra comes to mind) is really, really exciting.
March 30th, 2014 at 12:23 AM ^
I have not been to "HAPPY" with PSU. We all know what they say about living in a "VALLEY"...Shit rolls down hill!