Cyclones Split Games with Texas State and Purdue

STATS VS. TEXAS STATE | STATS VS. PURDUE

SAN MARCOS, Texas - The Cyclone softball team was shutout 3-0 by Texas State on Saturday before holding off Purdue 8-5 later in the day. Iowa State moves to 6-3 overall heading into the final day of the CenturyLink Classic on Sunday.

Pitchers Bree Holliday and Rachel Zabriskie shared starting and relieving duties on the day with Holliday starting against Texas State and Zabriskie starting against Purdue. Holliday earned her first save of her young career in the night cap. Through 13 innings, the senior standout and freshman upstart allowed 18 hits but only five earned runs.

Freshman shortstop Sara Davison took charge on offense, going 2-for-4 with three walks against the Bobcats and Boilermakers for a team-high on-base percentage of .714.

In the first game of the day, starter Holliday (1-1) allowed four hits in 4.1 innings but it was enough for the Bobcats (4-5, 0-0 Southland) who scored three runs on RBI singles by McKenzie Baack, Haley Lemons and Allison Snow.

The Cyclones advanced Davison to third base twice in the game but Texas State pitchers Crystal Alaniz (1-1) and Chandler Hall (1) combined for seven scoreless innings en route to the shutout win.

Davison reach base in the fifth and seventh innings on singles, advancing to second in both innings on wild pitches. Groundouts by outfielder Carleigh Berry in the fifth and pinch hitter Katie Harms in the seventh ended both Iowa State scoring threats.

Zabriskie (3-1), who pitched in relief against Texas State in the first game, put runners on second and third with no one out in the top of the first inning against Purdue but came back to get a line out and struck out two batters swinging to get out of the jam.

The Cyclone offense came alive in the bottom of the first inning Purdue (3-3, 0-0 Big Ten) as the Cyclones took a 3-0 lead behind RBIs from third baseman Erica Miller and catcher Amandine Habben. Iowa State's chased Purdue starter Suzie Rzegocki (3-2) in the second inning after 1.1 innings of work when junior Bianca Lopez drove in Berry who had reached base with a single.

The Boilermakers got on the board in the top of the third when Lindsey Rains doubled to lead off the inning and eventually touched home on an RBI sacrifice fly by right fielder Andie Varsho.

Habben picked up her second RBI of the game on a double in the bottom of the third before scoring herself on a single by freshman Sara Rice to take the 6-1 lead.

A two run homer by Boilermaker Molly Garst closed the gap to three. Garst returned to the plate in the sixth frame for an RBI single and Purdue would add one more in the inning to shrink the Iowa State lead to 6-5.

Iowa State tacked on two more runs in the bottom of the sixth on an error by Purdue third baseman Tori Chiodo, growing the lead back to three, 8-5 as the teams headed into the final frame.

Holliday, who spelled Zabriskie after 5.2 innings, allowed the first two hitters to reach base in the seventh but got the Boilermakers to hit into three-straight ground outs to end the game with the win.

Sunday is the final day of the CenturyLink Classic and the Cyclones will finish the weekend with a 10 a.m. game against the Boilermakers.

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Sara Davison

Amandine Habben

Amandine Habben

Katie Harms

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Erica Miller

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Sara Rice

Rachel Zabriskie

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