ISU Finishes UTSA Classic 3-0 With 2-1 Win

SAN ANTONIO – The Iowa State softball team wrapped up a 3-0 weekend at the UTSA Classic with a 2-1 win over Southeastern Louisiana Saturday morning at Roadrunner Field. The Cyclones are now 9-2 on the season while the Lions fell to 4-5.

Iowa State only allowed two hits on the day, scoring both of its runs in the first inning.

Offense Early
The visiting team for this one, Iowa State did not mess around with getting on the board, as Brittany Gomez led off the game with a triple. Aly Cappaert immediately got her home the next at-bat with a double to make it 1-0 Cyclones. With runners on the corners and no outs, Lexi Slater, who walked in her at-bat, induced a throwing error by the catcher to allow Cappaert to score and make it 2-0 ISU.

Getting the Outs
Brianna Weilbacher got the start for Iowa State and had an odd first inning of the good and the bad, as she walked the first, third and fifth hitters she saw. However, on the odd plate appearances, she got outs, including a Vanessa Eng groundout that got the Cyclones out of a bases-loaded jam.

Weilbacher struggled to keep her walks allowed down, conceding eight walks in 5 1/3s innings of work. Where she did not struggle was allowing hits, as she only allowed one for her outing. In the fourth inning, the Lions had runners on second and third as Weilbacher fired a wild pitch, a run scored to cut the ISU lead in half, but Sammie Hildreth fired to third to cut the runner down there and end the inning.

The Cyclones' freshman hurler took a no-hitter into the fifth inning, but saw it come to an end with Katie Lacour's lead-off single. Once again, Weilbacher held things in check and got her outs, with the Lions leaving runners on the corners.

Missed Opportunity
The Iowa State offense did not put together any serious threats to score again until the seventh inning, when Kelsey McFarland (single), Gomez (walk) and Slater (hit by pitch) loaded the bases with just one out on the board. However, the Lions turned a big double play as a lineout to short caught McFarland off the bag at third and got Southeastern Louisiana out of the jam.

Shutdown Stacy
With a runner on first and one out in the bottom of the sixth, Iowa State made the decision to bring Stacy Roggentien, one of the heroines of last night's win over UTSA, to shut things down. She took care of business in the sixth, getting her first two batters she faced out, closing the inning on a strikeout.

In the seventh, Roggentien conceded a lead-off single to Lacour. SLU decided to try and bunt her over to second, but the ISU defense was on top of it as Nychole Antillon fired to Slater at second to get the force. The Lions would not reach second in the inning as Roggentien got a fly out and a strikeout to close out the save and the game for the Cyclones.

Cyclone of the Game
Nychole Antillon. Though she has not stolen any headlines yet this season, the freshman from Orange, Calif. has been outstanding at the hot corner for the Cyclones and was on top of her game today. Antillon finished the game 3-for-3 from the plate, and closed out the UTSA Classic going 5-of-8 (.625 average) at the dish. In the field, her awareness on defense helped snuff out Southeastern Louisiana's attempt to move over the runner, keeping SLU out of scoring position in the seventh inning.

On Deck
Iowa State will take part in the San Diego Classic next weekend. The Cyclones have five games on slate, starting Friday at 11 a.m. Central against UC Davis.

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Players Mentioned

Nychole Antillon

Aly Cappaert

Aly Cappaert

Brittany Gomez

Brittany Gomez

Sammie Hildreth

Kelsey McFarland

Stacy Roggentien

Stacy Roggentien

Lexi Slater

Lexi Slater

Brianna Weilbacher

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