UNK Hosts NSU & RSU Next Weekend
Kearney, Neb. – True freshman Faith Gaynor threw six innings of strong relief and senior Katie Gosker belted two more home runs as Nebraska-Kearney split a double header with Newman, winning game one 4-3 and dropping game two, 8-4, Saturday in Wichita. The Lopers (16-30, 7-15) finish up the 2023 season next weekend at home when Northeastern State and defending national champion Rogers State come to Patriot Park. Gaynor (Riverbank, Calif.) earned her seventh win by allowing just two earned runs on five hits and no walks over the final six innings in the early contest. She threw 101 pitches and blanked the Jets (16-36, 4-18) until two-run rally in the seventh. With the tying run standing at second, Gaynor got a pop up to short and a flyout to center to end the game. UNK scored single runs in the first and third innings and added two big insurance runs in the sixth. Gosker (2 for 2) hit career dinger number 31 in the third with Lincoln sophomore and right fielder Lyndsey Roth smacking a two-out, two-run double to center in the sixth. Also, Lincoln first baseman Leah Jurgens went 2 for 3 with a run scored. NU scored two runs in the bottom of the first in game two to never trail. The busted open a 3-2 game with a five-run fifth that featured four walks, two singles and a Loper error. The cleanup and five-hole hitters were a combined 5 for 8 with three RBI's and two runs scored with Division I transfer Jackie Gold tossing a complete game seven-hitter. She won for the eighth time by allowing two earned over a healthy 129 pitches. Gaynor didn't allow an earned run in two innings of relief work with leadoff hitter and shortstop Sydney Thomason (Ripon, Calif.) going 2 for 4. Finally, Gosker went yard in the sixth. Lopers Career Home Run Leaders 1. 48 Darcie Berry 1997-00 2. 47 Cassie Keck 2008-11 3. 34 Kate Ruwe 2013-16 4. 32 Katie Gosker 2020-23 5. 31 Kathy Nelson 1981-84
Comments