March 11, 2009 | Game One | Game Two

Softball Bats Go Cold in Losses to SIU-Edwardsville, IPFW

    Kissimmee, Fla. -- The Youngstown State softball team (1-11) tallied just two hits in a 6-0 loss to SIU-Edwardsville and only five in a 4-2 loss to IPFW on Wednesday at the Rebel Spring Games at the Osceola County Softball Complex.

    SIU-Edwardsville's Kaitlin Colosimo fired a two-hit complete-game shutout with 11 strikeouts in the Penguins' first game of the day.

    Freshman Jordan Ingalls turned in a courageous performance in the circle for the Penguins, firing a complete game and scattering eight hits.

    Ingalls held SIUE in check for four innings before a four-run fifth inning ballooned a 2-0 lead into a 6-0 advantage.

    Ingalls and junior Autumn Grove had the Penguins' only two hits.

    Against IPFW, junior Cheryl Cale scattered eight hits in a complete-game performance and allowed just one earned run as the Penguins were bitten with the error bug in a 4-2 loss.

    The Mastodons plated an unearned run in the top of the first and three more runs, two of which were unearned, in the top of the third to take a 4-0 lead.

    The Penguins got on the board with the help of two IPFW errors in the bottom of the third inning.

    After freshman Haley Thomas's one-out infield single, Grove and sophomore Kristina Rendle each reach on errors to load the bases.

    Ingalls reached on a fielder's choice to plate Thomas and Kim Klonowski, who went 2-for-3, single to center to score Grove and ended the game's scoring.

    The Penguins take on South Dakota and Yale on Thursday at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., respectively.