Feb. 11, 2011

Box Score

Tournament Central

2011 Softball Media Guide

WAC Softball Media Guide

BATON ROUGE, La. - LSU hurler Rachele Fico struck out 11 while allowing only three hits as the 19th ranked Tigers defeated Louisiana Tech 9-1 in six innings Friday afternoon in the second game of the Tiger Classic.

Tech won its first game of the day, defeating Bowling Green 4-1.

Offensively, the Tigers utilized their team speed and timely hitting to get to Techster pitcher Meghan Krieg who allowed six runs - five earned - on six hits, four walks and three hit batters in 4.0 innings of work. Krieg struck out three.

"If you just look at the box score, it really looks like Meghan struggled with her control," said Tech head coach Sara Dawson said. "However, she was barely missing and only a couple of their hits were actually hit hard. LSU has a lot of team speed and a lot of times we weren't ready defensively. When you face that kind of speed from top to bottom you have to know where you are going defensively. Any little hesitation or bobble, and it cost you.

"I was proud of the way Meghan came back in some of the early to middle innings. She stuck with it."

LSU struck for three runs in the first with two of those coming with two outs on a bases loaded walk and a hit batter which forced in another run.

With the Tigers leading 4-0 through two, Tech struck for its lone run of the game on a two-out RBI double by Janna Frandrup, plating Christina Gamboa who had singled up the middle.

LSU would add a single run in the third and fourth and three more in the sixth to end the game.

Frandrup came on in relief of Krieg in the fifth inning, and allowed three runs on three hits while striking out a pair of Tigers during her 1.2 innings of action.

Offensively, senior Molly Goza recorded Tech's only other hit of the game - a one-out single up the middle in the top of the second inning.

"We challenged the girls after the game to learn from their mistakes," Dawson said. "Next time we face LSU we will have a better understanding of what we will see from them offensively and hopefully we will play better defensively."

LSU banged out nine hits while successfully swiping seven bases in eight attempts.

The Lady Techsters return to action Saturday with two more games, facing Purdue at 10 a.m. and Bowling Green at 5:30 p.m.