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Hawkeyes Split in Day 1 of Wooo Pig Classic

The University of Iowa softball team went 1-1 on day one of the Wooo Pig Classic at Bogle Park on Friday. Iowa defeated Missouri State, 8-0 (6 innings), before falling to No. 11 Arkansas, 9-0 (5 innings).

by Claire Kelly
  • Game 1
  • Game 2
Box Score
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- The University of Iowa softball team went 1-1 on day one of the Wooo Pig Classic at Bogle Park on Friday. Iowa defeated Missouri State, 8-0 (6 innings), before falling to No. 11 Arkansas, 9-0 (5 innings).
Junior Jalen Adams (8-1) made her seventh start of the season against Missouri Sate. Adams threw the complete game and allowed no runs on two hits, while fanning two. Seven Hawkeyes registered at least one hit. Sophomore Soo-Jin Berry picked up her team-leading, fourth home run of the season. 
Freshman Talia Tretton (3-1) got the start against the Razorbacks, throwing 3 1/3 innings before being relieved by sophomore Jaylee Ojo and senior Haley Downe. Senior Tatianna Roman had the lone Iowa hit of the game. 
HOW IT HAPPENED
Game 1
Adams got the start in the circle for Iowa and pitched her fifth complete game of the season. 
Missouri State started the game going three up and three down in the first inning. In the home half of the inning, sophomore Jena Young led off with a double to left center. Berry came up to the plate and hit a home run to center field to give Iowa the early lead, 2-0.
Both teams managed to scatter runners over the next four innings but neither team capitalized as it turned into a pitchers battle.
In the sixth, Iowa started off hot as senior Tatianna Roman doubled to deep left field followed by a walk for freshman Allyssa Ramos. Sophomore Devin Simon brought Roman home on an RBI double to right center. On the next pitch, Ramos was able to score on a passed ball to extend the Hawkeye lead to four. Young followed with an RBI fielders choice to score Simon. Iowa stayed patient at the plate drawing four straight walks with two of them being with the bases loaded to give RBIs to senior Hannah Lindsay and redshirt junior Desiree Rivera to make it, 7-0, Iowa. After a Missouri State pitching change, Tretton reached first on a fielding error which allowed Bennett to score to end the game in run-rule fashion. 
The Hawkeyes finished the game with eight runs on eight hits and no errors. Missouri State finished the game with no runs, two hits and one error.

Game 2
Game two of the afternoon started scoreless through the first two innings as neither team was able to record a hit.

In the top of the third, the Hawkeyes were retired in order. Tretton started the bottom of the inning with a strikeout but Arkansas loaded the bases after three walks. The Razorbacks scored the first run of the game on an RBI singe. Arkansas tacked on two more runs in the inning on a sac fly and an RBI single to make it, 3-0.

Iowa managed to get Young and Bennett into scoring position with two outs but were unable to plate a run. In the fourth, Arkansas had its first two runners reach as Tretton was taken out and relieved by Ojo. Ojo faced four batters in the inning, with all four reaching on a walk or hit by pitch as the Razorback extended their lead to six. Downe entered in relief with one out walked the first batter she faced, giving Arkansas another free run. Iowa got out of the inning down 7-0.

Roman recorded a one out single in the fifth to pick up Iowa's first hit of the game, but that was it in the inning as the next two Hawkeyes hitters were retired. Arkansas closed out the game in the bottom of the fifth as its leadoff hitter reached via walk and then the next hitter launched a walk off two-run home run.

Iowa finished the game with no runs on one hit and one error, while Arkansas had nine runs on six hits and no errors. Hawkeye pitchers allowed 10 free passes in the game. 

NOTABLES

  • Berry's home run in game one against Missouri State was her fourth of the season and fifth of her career.
  • Five run-rule wins is the most in a season since 2010 when the Hawkeyes had seven.

UP NEXT
Iowa (11-4) returns to action Saturday, March 1st. Iowa will face Missouri State at 10 a.m. (CT) and No. 11 Arkansas at 3 p.m. (CT). The game against Arkansas will be streamed on SEC+ ($).