Indiana St. Box Score
Texas A&M C.C. Box Score
The Detroit Titans softball team continued play at the Corpus Christi Invitational Sunday afternoon. The Titans battled but came up short in a pitchers duel, falling 3-1 to Indiana State in the first game, and then lost 9-3 to host Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
Despite the picking up the loss for Detroit (0-4) in game one, junior ace pitcher Jill Perry (Ortonville, MI/Brandon) pitched her best game of the tournament, going the distance with 10 strikeouts while only surrendering three runs on eight hits.
Indiana State (3-2) senior pitcher Darcy Wood was also solid on the mound, allowing only one Titan run on four hits with five strikeouts.
The game was scoreless through the first three innings until ISU took a 1-0 lead on an RBI double by freshman Bailey Wittenauer in the fourth.
The Sycamores added two more runs the fifth inning with a two-out triple by Audrey Childress to go ahead 3-0. Detroit got on the board in the bottom of the frame as Nortman drove in Liebner with a two-out RBI single through the left side to pull UDM within two runs, 3-1.
The Titans got two runners aboard in the sixth inning but could not get the needed hit off Wood to get them in as ISU held on for the 3-1 win.
In the second game, Nortman paced Detroit going 2-for-3 at the plate with two runs scored while Gill and Sinclair both went 1-for-2, combining for all three RBI. Freshman Kara Spinelli (Newman, CA/Orestrimba) recorded the loss in only her second collegiate start.
Andrea Simancas led Texas A&M C.C. (5-6), going 2-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored while Addie Tallman picked up the win on the mound, allowing three runs on five hits.
Gill gave the Titans a 1-0 lead with an RBI single in the first inning. Texas A&M C.C. tied the game in the bottom half on a RBI ground out.
After A&M took a 4-1 lead in the second inning, UDM responded with two runs on a Sinclair single and Gill sacrifice fly out to pull within one run, 4-3.
However, that would be as close as the Titans would get as the Islanders posted three runs in the fourth and two in the fifth to put the game away.
The Titans head to Kissimmee, FL for the Rebel Games Tournament, Mar. 1-6. The first game is against Niagara on Sun., Mar. 1 at 9:00 a.m.
