Softball ends fall season with 7-1 record

By By Thomas Powers

Monday, October 6, 2008

Kansas ended its fall season 7-1 after going 3-1, beating Western Illinois twice and splitting with Iowa, in this past weekend’s Hawkeye Classic. On Saturday, the Jayhawks shut out the Western Illinois Westerwinds 4-0 and then took their first loss of the season, losing to the Iowa Hawkeyes 4-2. Sunday proved to be the better day of the tournament as Kansas beat Western Illinois 6-3 and then Iowa 5-2.

Kansas faced its first Divison I opponents of the 2008-2009 season during the Hawkeye Classic. Head coach Tracy Bunge was pleased with her team’s performance but hinted on a few things the Jayhawks will need to work on before their spring season.

“We got a chance to get some playing time in for everybody on our roster. Offensively I think we played very well, we consistently kept the ball in play but we left a lot of runners on base. We had many opportunities to score more runs than we did; on Saturday we left 12 runners stranded that were in scoring position.”

Seniors Elle Pottorf and Val Chapple led the offensive charge for the Jayhawks with Pottorf going 7-12 for the weekend with three doubles and four RBIs and Chapple hitting 5 for 11 including a 2-run home run off of a change up in Sunday’s 5-2 win over Iowa.

Valerie George pitched both games against a solid Iowa line-up that returned 13 players from a 2008 team that finished third in the Big Ten conference and appeared in both the Big Ten championship and the NCAA Iowa City Regional Championship. Coach Bunge commented on the loss:

“The loss was a learning moment, Iowa is a good team and they just found a way to get it done. As a team we reflected on the loss and tried to figure out what the Hawkeyes did better than us and I think it came down to executing with 2 outs and executing with runners in scoring position. We improved on both aspects in our win during the rematch on Sunday.”

Kansas isn’t scheduled to play again until February 6th when it travels to Phoenix to participate in the Kajikawa Classic hosted by Arizona State, where they will face Texas El-Paso, Arizona, Northwestern, Stanford and Nevada.

— Edited by Arthur Hur

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