Live Stats for Game 1 at 2 p.m.
Live Stats for Game 2 at 4 p.m.
After playing a last-minute doubleheader at Buysse Ballpark on Friday, the UDM softball team will host Central Michigan University for a twin bill Wednesday afternoon for its originally scheduled home opener beginning at 2:00 p.m.
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here for game one, and
here for game two.
Last Time Out – Titans first-year head coach Sunny Jones scheduled last Friday's games with University of Michigan-Dearborn after her team's last four games at the Rebel Spring Games in Kissimmee, FL, were cancelled due to rain.
Detroit (2-6) took control of game one against UM-Dearborn from the get-go, grabbing a 1-0 lead in the first inning after freshman starter
Anna Bondy (Newport, MI/Carleton-Airport) sat the Wolves down in order in the top half of the inning.
A home run off the bat of sophomore
Kara Spinelli (Newman, CA/Orestimba) added to the UDM lead in the fourth and the Titans broke the game open by putting up a four-spot in the fifth, thanks to a three-run homer off the bat of senior catcher
Jessica Liebner (Ortonville, MI/Brandon). Bondy went the distance in the circle and earned her second win of the season.
But the Titans struggled offensively in game two, falling 10-2 in six innings, scoring both runs in the bottom of the sixth.
The Chippewas (10-7), meanwhile, are coming off of a three-win weekend in Bloomington, IN, where they scored a pair of wins of Indiana, as well as a win of SIU-Edwardsville, at the IU Softball Classic.
Titans-Chippewas – Detroit has struggled against the Chippewas in the past, but the Titans gave them all they could handle in their last meeting.
After Central Michigan handed the Titans a 12-3 loss in the first game of a doubleheader on April 14, 2009, UDM was a different team in game two. But despite a stellar performance in the pitcher's circle from Spinelli, who allowed just five hits in 6.0 innings of work, the Titans could only manage to plate one run, and fell by a final score of 2-1.
Admission for the Titans doubleheader with Central Michigan at Buysse Ballpark Wednesday afternoon is free to all.